Please tell me about benefits of the national pension.

(1) Old-age basic pension
Those who have paid premiums for 10 years or more (including the exemption period) can receive benefits when they reach the age of 65. Also, if you wish, you can make a request for deferred payment from age 60 to under 65 and request for deferred payment after age 66.

(2) Disability Basic Pension
If you are under the age of 65 and have a residual disability due to illness or injury, you can receive benefits if your disability is recognized as grade 1 or 2 on the day one and a half years after your first medical examination (disability recognition date).

(3) A spouse with a child under the age of 18 (or a disability grade 1 or 2 under the age of 20) at the time of the death of a person enrolled in the basic pension for survivors or a recipient of the old-age basic pension, or A child under the age of 18 (or a child under the age of 20 with a grade 1 or 2 disability) can receive benefits.

Note: If requesting (2) or (3), one of the following payment requirements is required.
1. On the date of the first medical examination or the day before the date of death, two-thirds or more of the insured period (including the premium exemption period) of the insured period until the month before the date of the first medical examination or the date of death.
2. If the date of the first medical examination or the date of death is before March 31, 2026, there is no delinquency period in the most recent one year up to two months before the date of the first medical examination or the date of death on the day before the date of the first medical examination or the date of death.

(1) As a widow's pension type 1 insured person, the husband who has paid premiums for 10 years or more (including exemptions, payment deferrals, and student payment special periods) and has never received an old-age basic pension or a disability basic pension has died. 3/4 of the basic old-age pension that the husband would have received from the wife who had been married for 10 years or more at the time of her husband's death, from 60 to 65 You can receive benefits until
(2) If a person who has paid insurance premiums for 36 months or more (including the prenatal and postnatal exemption period) as a Category 1 insured person and dies without receiving either the old-age or disability basic pension, The bereaved family who was together can receive it.
Note: You cannot receive both (1) and (2).

Contact Information

Insurance and Pension Section Telephone 042-378-2111 Extension 142, 143
Fuchu Pension Office
Zip Code 183-8505
Address 2-12-2, Fuchu-cho, Fuchu-shi
Telephone 042‐361‐1011