# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第五十九条 (Article 59) - 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: 第五十九条 (Article 59)（遺族） — address `art-59` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十九条（遺族） — (Surviving Family) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59 **第一項** 遺族厚生年金を受けることができる遺族は、被保険者又は被保険者であつた者の配偶者、子、父母、孫又は祖父母（以下単に「配偶者」、「子」、「父母」、「孫」又は「祖父母」という。）であつて、被保険者又は被保険者であつた者の死亡の当時（失踪の宣告を受けた被保険者であつた者にあつては、行方不明となつた当時。以下この条において同じ。）その者によつて生計を維持したものとする。ただし、妻以外の者にあつては、次に掲げる要件に該当した場合に限るものとする。 art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59/par-1 The surviving family members who may receive an employees' pension for surviving family are the spouse, child, parent, grandchild, or grandparent of an insured or former insured (hereinafter simply referred to as the "spouse", "child", "parent", "grandchild", and "grandparent"), who was receiving financial support from the person at the time of the person's death (in the case of a former insured who was subject to an adjudication of disappearance, at the time that the whereabouts of the person became unknown; the same applies hereinafter in this Article); provided, however, that for persons other than a wife, this is limited to a case in which that person satisfies the following requirements: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 夫、父母又は祖父母については、五十五歳以上であること。 art-59/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59/par-1/item-1 if the person is the husband, parent, or grandparent of the insured or former insured, the requirement of being 55 years of age or older; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 子又は孫については、十八歳に達する日以後の最初の三月三十一日までの間にあるか、又は二十歳未満で障害等級の一級若しくは二級に該当する障害の状態にあり、かつ、現に婚姻をしていないこと。 art-59/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59/par-1/item-2 if the person is the child or grandchild of the insured or former insured, the requirement of either being within the period from birth until the first March 31 after the day on which the person reaches the age of 18, or of being under the age of 20 and having a disability classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades; and also, the requirement of not being married at the time in question, in either case. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、父母は、配偶者又は子が、孫は、配偶者、子又は父母が、祖父母は、配偶者、子、父母又は孫が遺族厚生年金の受給権を取得したときは、それぞれ遺族厚生年金を受けることができる遺族としない。 art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if the person's spouse or child has acquired the right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family, the person's parent does not constitute a surviving family member who may receive an employees' pension for surviving family; if the spouse, child, or parent has acquired the right to receive those benefits, the person's grandchild does not constitute a surviving family member who may receive that pension; and if the person's spouse, child, parent, or grandchild has acquired the right to receive those benefits, the person's grandparent does not constitute a surviving family member who may receive that pension. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 被保険者又は被保険者であつた者の死亡の当時胎児であつた子が出生したときは、第一項の規定の適用については、将来に向つて、その子は、被保険者又は被保険者であつた者の死亡の当時その者によつて生計を維持していた子とみなす。 art-59/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59/par-3 To apply the provisions of paragraph (1) when a child is born who was in utero at the time of the insured's or former insured's death, the child is deemed, prospectively, to have been receiving financial support from the insured or former insured at the time of death thereof. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第一項の規定の適用上、被保険者又は被保険者であつた者によつて生計を維持していたことの認定に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。 art-59/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59/par-4 Cabinet Order provides for the necessary particulars in connection with certifying that a person was receiving financial support from the insured or former insured in order to apply the provisions of paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-59/par-1: この条 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十九条 (Article 59), art-59 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59 - art-59/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十九条第一項 (Article 59, paragraph (1)), art-59/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59/par-1 - art-59/par-3: 第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十九条第一項 (Article 59, paragraph (1)), art-59/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59/par-1 - art-59/par-4: 第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十九条第一項 (Article 59, paragraph (1)), art-59/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59/par-1 ## Cited by 15 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第五十九条第一項（遺族） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第五十九条第二項（遺族） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第五十九条第三項（遺族） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 第五十九条第四項（遺族） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59/par-4 - 厚生年金保険法 第六十条第一項第一号（年金額） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-60/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-60/par-1/item-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第六十条第一項第二号（年金額） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-60/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-60/par-1/item-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の四第一項第十八号（機構への厚生労働大臣の権限に係る事務の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-4/par-1/item-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-4/par-1/item-18 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十二条第二項（遺族厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-72/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-72/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十二条第三項（遺族厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-72/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-72/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十二条第四項（遺族厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-72/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-72/par-4 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-74/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十一条第二項（遺族厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十一条第三項（遺族厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十一条第四項（遺族厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-4 - 国民年金法 附則第十二条第一項第九号（老齢基礎年金等の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/suppl-3601-34/art-12/par-1/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3601-34/art-12/par-1/item-9 --- ## 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