# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第六十七条 (Article 67) - 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: 第六十七条 (Article 67) — address `art-67` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-67 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-67 - 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. --- ### 第六十七条 art-67 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-67 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-67 **第一項** 配偶者又は子に対する遺族厚生年金は、その配偶者又は子の所在が一年以上明らかでないときは、遺族厚生年金の受給権を有する子又は配偶者の申請によつて、その所在が明らかでなくなつた時にさかのぼつて、その支給を停止する。 art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-67/par-1 If the whereabouts of the spouse or a child remain unknown for one year or longer, the payment of an employees' pension for surviving family to that spouse or child is suspended retroactively to the time at which the whereabouts of the spouse or child became unknown, upon the application of a child or spouse who holds the right to receive benefits from the employees' pension for surviving family. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 配偶者又は子は、いつでも、前項の規定による支給の停止の解除を申請することができる。 art-67/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-67/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-67/par-2 The spouse or child may, at any time, apply to have a suspension of payment under the provisions of the preceding paragraph lifted. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-67/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十七条第一項 (Article 67, paragraph (1)), art-67/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-67/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第六十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-66/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第六十六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-66/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第六十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-67/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-67/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の三十四第一項（遺族厚生年金の支給停止に係る申請の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-34/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の四第一項第十九号（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-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-4/par-1/item-19 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十第一項第十八号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-18 --- ## 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