Suspension of Additional Pension Amount

The payment of Additional Pension amount is suspended if a person eligible to receive the Old-age Employees' (Retirement Mutual Aid) Pension or Disability Employees’ (Mutual aid) pension, or a spouse subject to addition of Additional Pension amount meets any of the condition 1, 2, or 3.

1. When a spouse who is eligible for Additional Pension amount receives pension benefits provided for disability or pension for old-age (retirement) for which the pension participation calculation period is 20 years or more (Includes cases where the pension considers a period below 20 years as fulfilling 20 years, or when it meets the requirement that allows the sum of periods to be used, where the sum becomes 20 years or more).
2. When a person aged 65 or older who is eligible to receive Old-age Employees’(Retirement Mutual Aid) Pension receives a Disability Basic Pension with the additional payment for his/her child, the Additional Pension amount of Old-age Employees’ Pension for the child is suspended.
3. When a person eligible to PMAC pension is paid an Old-age Employees’ (Retirement Mutual Aid) Pension that has an Additional Pension amount added by the Japan Pension Service or Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Association.

In accordance with the amendment of pension legislation taking effect in April 2022, Article 1 will be revised as follows while Articles 2 and 3 will remain unchanged.

The revised Article 1 applies if,

• A spouse eligible for additional pension benefits is entitled to pension benefits due to age or retirement, which are payable if their contribution period is 20 years or longer.
• If a spouse eligible for additional pension benefits receives pension benefits due to disability.

Revision Details

If a spouse eligible for additional pension benefits is entitled to pension benefits due to age or retirement because the spouse has paid contributions for 20 years or more, the additional pension benefits will not be paid to the spouse from April 2022 onward regardless of the status of payment of pensions.

Note:
Pension benefits payable due to age or retirement if contributions have been paid for 20 years or longer.

Special considerations under the revised law coming to effect in April 2022.

If, as of March 2022, a spouse eligible for additional pension benefits is receiving both the Old-age Employees’ Pension and the Disability Employees’ Pension together with the additional pension benefits and has been subject to total suspension of pension benefits payable due to age or retirement (except for pension suspension upon request), the spouse will continue to be paid the additional pension benefits.