# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) — address `suppl-3441-78/art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条 suppl-3441-78/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-7 **第一項** 昭和四十四年十一月一日において現に厚生年金保険法附則第十六条第一項の規定によつて支給する従前の障害年金の例による保険給付を受ける権利を有する者のうち、同法別表第一に定める一級の廃疾の状態にある者の当該障害年金については、その額（従前の加給金に相当する給付の額を除く。）を十五万円とし、その他の者の当該障害年金については、その額（従前の加給金に相当する給付の額を除く。）を十二万円とする。 suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-1 Among persons who, on November 1, 1969, actually have the right to receive insurance benefits that follow the example of the previous disability pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, for the disability pension of a person who is in a state of disablement of grade 1 specified in Appended Table 1 of that Act, the amount (excluding the amount of benefits equivalent to the previous additional allowance) is 150,000 yen, and for the disability pension of any other person, the amount (excluding the amount of benefits equivalent to the previous additional allowance) is 120,000 yen. machine translation, not official **第二項** 社会保険庁長官は、前項に規定する障害年金を受ける権利を有する者について、その廃疾の程度を診査し、年金の額（従前の加給金に相当する給付の額を除く。この項及び次項において同じ。）が十五万円である者の廃疾の程度が厚生年金保険法別表第一に定める一級に該当しないと認めるとき、又は年金の額が十二万円である者の廃疾の程度が同表に定める一級に該当すると認めるときは、その者の当該年金の額を十二万円又は十五万円に改定することができる。 suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-2 The Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency may examine the degree of disablement of a person who has the right to receive the disability pension prescribed in the preceding paragraph and, if the Director-General finds that the degree of disablement of a person whose pension amount (excluding the amount of benefits equivalent to the previous additional allowance; the same applies in this paragraph and the following paragraph) is 150,000 yen does not fall under grade 1 specified in Appended Table 1 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or finds that the degree of disablement of a person whose pension amount is 120,000 yen falls under grade 1 specified in that Appended Table, revise the amount of that person's pension to 120,000 yen or 150,000 yen, respectively. machine translation, not official **第三項** 年金の額が十二万円である者は、社会保険庁長官に対し、廃疾の程度が厚生年金保険法別表第一に定める一級に該当するに至つたことによる当該障害年金の額の改定を請求することができる。 suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-3 A person whose pension amount is 120,000 yen may request the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency to revise the amount of that disability pension on the grounds that the degree of disablement has come to fall under grade 1 specified in Appended Table 1 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act. machine translation, not official **第四項** 厚生年金保険法第五十二条第三項及び第四項の規定は、前項の請求又は第一項の規定による年金の額の改定について準用する。 suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-4 The provisions of Article 52, paragraphs (3) and (4) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis to the request under the preceding paragraph or the revision of the pension amount pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第七条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (1)), suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-1 - suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-2: この項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第七条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (2)), suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-2 - suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-2: 次項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第七条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (3)), suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-3 - suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-4: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第七条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (3)), suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-3 - suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-4: 第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第七条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (1)), suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第二項第二号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-1/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-1/par-2/item-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-7/par-4 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-10/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-20261013T074650-022, 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