# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七十八条の十八 (Article 78-18) - 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: 第七十八条の十八 (Article 78-18)（老齢厚生年金等の額の改定の特例） — address `art-78-18` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-18 - 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. --- ### 第七十八条の十八（老齢厚生年金等の額の改定の特例） — (Special Provisions on Revising the Amounts of Employees' Old-Age Pensions and Employees Disability Pensions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-78-18 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-18 **第一項** 老齢厚生年金の受給権者について、第七十八条の十四第二項及び第三項の規定により標準報酬の改定又は決定が行われたときは、第四十三条第一項の規定にかかわらず、改定又は決定後の標準報酬を老齢厚生年金の額の計算の基礎とするものとし、第七十八条の十四第一項の請求のあつた日の属する月の翌月から、年金の額を改定する。 art-78-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-18/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1), if the standardized remuneration of the beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension has been revised or decided pursuant to the provisions of Article 78-14, paragraph (2) and paragraph (3), the standardized remuneration after its revision or after it has been decided is the basis for calculating the employees' old-age pension, and the pension amount is revised from the month following the month that includes the day on which the request under Article 78-14, paragraph (1) was filed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第七十八条の十第二項の規定は、障害厚生年金の受給権者である被扶養配偶者について第七十八条の十四第二項及び第三項の規定により標準報酬の決定が行われた場合に準用する。この場合において、必要な読替えは、政令で定める。 art-78-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-18/par-2 The provisions of Article 78-10, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to a case in which the standardized remuneration for a dependent spouse who is the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension has been decided pursuant to the provisions of Article 78-14, paragraph (2) and paragraph (3). Cabinet Order provides for the necessary technical replacement of terms in such a case. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-78-18/par-1: 第七十八条の十四第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の十四第二項 (Article 78-14, paragraph (2)), art-78-14/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-14/par-2 - art-78-18/par-1: 第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の十四第三項 (Article 78-14, paragraph (3)), art-78-14/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-14/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-14/par-3 - art-78-18/par-1: 第四十三条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十三条第一項 (Article 43, paragraph (1)), art-43/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43/par-1 - art-78-18/par-1: 第七十八条の十四第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の十四第一項 (Article 78-14, paragraph (1)), art-78-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-14/par-1 - art-78-18/par-2: 第七十八条の十第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の十第二項 (Article 78-10, paragraph (2)), art-78-10/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-10/par-2 - art-78-18/par-2: 第七十八条の十四第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の十四第二項 (Article 78-14, paragraph (2)), art-78-14/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-14/par-2 - art-78-18/par-2: 第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の十四第三項 (Article 78-14, paragraph (3)), art-78-14/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-14/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-14/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十第一項第二十八号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-28 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十七条の十一第一項（被扶養配偶者である期間についての特例の規定の適用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-17-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-17-11/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