# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第五十二条の二 (Article 52-2) - Law: 厚生年金保険法 (Employees' Pension Insurance Act), 昭和二十九年法律第百十五号 - English title "Employees' Pension Insurance Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第五十二条の二 (Article 52-2) — address `art-52-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-52-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-52-2 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十二条の二 art-52-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-52-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-52-2 **第一項** 障害厚生年金の受給権者が、国民年金法による障害基礎年金（当該障害厚生年金と同一の支給事由に基づいて支給されるものを除く。）の受給権を有するに至つたときは、当該障害厚生年金の支給事由となつた障害と当該障害基礎年金の支給事由となつた障害とを併合した障害の程度に応じて、当該障害厚生年金の額を改定する。 art-52-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-52-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-52-2/par-1 If the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension has come to have a right to receive benefits from a basic disability pension (excluding one that is paid based on the same grounds as the employees' disability pension) under the National Pension Act, the amount of the employees' disability pension in question is revised according to the severity of the beneficiary's disabilities stemming from a combination of the disability constituting the grounds for payment of the employees' disability pension and the disability constituting the grounds for payment of the basic disability pension. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 障害厚生年金の受給権者が、国民年金法による障害基礎年金の受給権を有する場合において、同法第三十四条第四項及び第三十六条第二項ただし書の規定により併合された障害の程度が当該障害基礎年金の支給事由となつた障害の程度より増進したときは、これらの規定により併合された障害の程度に応じて、当該障害厚生年金の額を改定する。 art-52-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-52-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-52-2/par-2 If the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension has a right to receive benefits from a basic disability pension under the National Pension Act, and the severity of the disabilities stemming from a combination under the provisions of Article 34, paragraph (4) and the proviso to paragraph (2) of Article 36 of that Act has become worse than that of the disability that constitutes the grounds for payment of the relevant basic disability pension, the amount of the relevant employees' disability pension is revised according to the severity of the disabilities stemming from a combination under these provisions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-52-2/par-2: 同法第三十四条第四項 → 国民年金法 第三十四条第四項 (Article 34, paragraph (4)), art-34/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-34/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-34/par-4 - art-52-2/par-2: 第三十六条第二項 → 国民年金法 第三十六条第二項 (Article 36, paragraph (2)), art-36/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-36/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第四十八条第一項（障害厚生年金の併給の調整） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-48/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十第一項第十四号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-14 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十六条の三第一項（障害厚生年金の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-16-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-16-3/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 厚生年金保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/329AC0000000115/20261001_507AC0000000074), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employees' Pension Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3554/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 190 — 厚生年金保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13