# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第六十八条 (Article 68) - 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: 第六十八条 (Article 68) — address `art-68` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-68 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-68 - 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. --- ### 第六十八条 art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-68 **第一項** 配偶者以外の者に対する遺族厚生年金の受給権者が二人以上である場合において、受給権者のうち一人以上の者の所在が一年以上明らかでないときは、その者に対する遺族厚生年金は、他の受給権者の申請によつて、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-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-68/par-1 If there are two or more beneficiaries of an employees' pension for surviving family who are not the spouse, and the whereabouts of one or more of the beneficiaries remain unknown for one year or longer, the payment of the employees' pension for surviving family to that person is suspended retroactively to the time at which the whereabouts of the person or persons became unknown, upon the application of another beneficiary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定によつて遺族厚生年金の支給を停止された者は、いつでも、その支給の停止の解除を申請することができる。 art-68/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-68/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-68/par-2 A person who has had their payment of an employees' pension for surviving family suspended pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may, at any time, apply to have the suspension of payment lifted. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第六十一条第一項の規定は、第一項の規定により遺族厚生年金の支給が停止され、又は前項の規定によりその停止が解除された場合に準用する。この場合において、同条第一項中「増減を生じた月」とあるのは、「支給が停止され、又はその停止が解除された月」と読み替えるものとする。 art-68/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-68/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-68/par-3 The provisions of Article 61, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis if the payment of the employees' pension for surviving family is suspended pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or if the suspension is lifted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. In such a case, the phrase "the month in which the number increased or decreased" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the month in which the payment is suspended or the suspension is lifted". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-68/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十八条第一項 (Article 68, paragraph (1)), art-68/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-68/par-1 - art-68/par-3: 第六十一条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十一条第一項 (Article 61, paragraph (1)), art-61/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-61/par-1 - art-68/par-3: 第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十八条第一項 (Article 68, paragraph (1)), art-68/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-68/par-1 - art-68/par-3: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十八条第二項 (Article 68, paragraph (2)), art-68/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-68/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-68/par-2 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第六十八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-68/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-68/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第六十八条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-68/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-68/par-3 - 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十七号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-17 - 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-20261013T074650-001, translated 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