# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第三十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 31) - 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: 第三十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 31)（独立行政法人福祉医療機構による債権の管理及び回収の業務） — address `suppl-3291-115/art-31` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-31 - 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. --- ### 第三十一条（独立行政法人福祉医療機構による債権の管理及び回収の業務） — Management and Collection of Claims by the Welfare and Medical Service Agency, Independent Administrative Agency caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3291-115/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-31 **第一項** 政府は、厚生年金保険事業の円滑な実施を図るため、年金積立金管理運用独立行政法人法附則第十四条の規定による廃止前の年金福祉事業団の解散及び業務の承継等に関する法律（平成十二年法律第二十号）第十二条第一項に規定する債権の管理及び回収の業務を、当該債権の回収が終了するまでの間、独立行政法人福祉医療機構に行わせるものとする。 suppl-3291-115/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-31/par-1 In order to ensure the smooth implementation of employees' pension insurance services, the government is to have the Welfare and Medical Service Agency, Independent Administrative Agency carry out the services of managing and collecting the claims prescribed in Article 12, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Dissolution of the Pension Welfare Service Public Corporation and Succession to Its Services, etc. (Act No. 20 of 2000) prior to its repeal pursuant to the provisions of Article 14 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act on the Government Pension Investment Fund, Independent Administrative Agency, until collection of those claims is completed. machine translation, not official **第二項** 政府は、厚生年金保険事業の円滑な実施を図るため、年金制度の機能強化のための国民年金法等の一部を改正する法律（令和二年法律第四十号）第二十八条の規定による改正前の独立行政法人福祉医療機構法（平成十四年法律第百六十六号）第十二条第一項第十二号に規定する小口の資金の貸付けに係る債権の管理及び回収の業務を、令和九年三月三十一日までの間、独立行政法人福祉医療機構に行わせるものとする。 suppl-3291-115/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-31/par-2 In order to ensure the smooth implementation of employees' pension insurance services, the government is to have the Welfare and Medical Service Agency, Independent Administrative Agency carry out, until March 31, 2027, the services of managing and collecting the claims relating to the small-sum loans prescribed in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (xii) of the Act on the Welfare and Medical Service Agency, Independent Administrative Agency (Act No. 166 of 2002) prior to the amendment by Article 28 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Strengthen the Functions of the Pension System (Act No. 40 of 2020). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3291-115/art-31/par-2: 年金制度の機能強化のための国民年金法等の一部を改正する法律（令和二年法律第四十号）第二十八条 → e-Gov law 502AC0000000040, 第二十八条 (Article 28), art-28 — not held in this collection --- ## 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-20261013T074650-016, 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