# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第五十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 55)

- 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
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- Provision: 第五十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 55)（新厚生年金保険法による年金たる保険給付の支払期月の特例） — address `suppl-3601-34/art-55`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第五十五条（新厚生年金保険法による年金たる保険給付の支払期月の特例） — Special Provisions on Payment Months of Pension Insurance Benefits under the New Employees' Pension Insurance Act
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3601-34/art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-55</sup>

**第一項**  新厚生年金保険法附則第二十八条の三の規定による特例老齢年金及び同法附則第二十八条の四の規定による特例遺族年金の支払については、政令で定める日までの間は、同法第三十六条第三項の規定にかかわらず、旧通則法第十条の規定の例による。
<sup>suppl-3601-34/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-55/par-1</sup>
With regard to the payment of the special old-age pension under the provisions of Article 28-3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act and the special pension for surviving family under the provisions of Article 28-4 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, until the date specified by Cabinet Order, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (3) of that Act, the example of the provisions of Article 10 of the former Pension Aggregation General Rules Act is followed.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  前項の規定の施行に伴い必要な経過措置については、政令で定める。
<sup>suppl-3601-34/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-55/par-2</sup>
Transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of the provisions of the preceding paragraph are specified by Cabinet Order.
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## Cites
- suppl-3601-34/art-55/par-1: 新厚生年金保険法附則第二十八条の三 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十八条の三 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 28-3), suppl-3291-115/art-28-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-28-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-28-3
- suppl-3601-34/art-55/par-1: 同法附則第二十八条の四 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十八条の四 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 28-4), suppl-3291-115/art-28-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-28-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-28-4
- suppl-3601-34/art-55/par-1: 同法第三十六条第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 第三十六条第三項 (Article 36, paragraph (3)), art-36/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-36/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-36/par-3
- suppl-3601-34/art-55/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第五十五条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 55, paragraph (1)), suppl-3601-34/art-55/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-55/par-1

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 厚生年金保険法 附則第五十五条第二項（新厚生年金保険法による年金たる保険給付の支払期月の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-55/par-2

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## 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-20261013T074650-032, 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
