Old-Age - Other benefits from the National Insurance Institute

Under the law, the National Insurance Institute will not pay you several benefits for the same period of time, and you must choose one of benefits (except for a child allowance and long-term care benefit, which are paid to you even when you are entitled to an old-age pension).

     If you are entitled to both an old-age pension and a survivors’ pension (widow/er’s pension), and you have completed a qualifying period, you will receive a full old-age pension as well as half of the survivors’ pension due to you.
Qualification: This right is not available to a housewife who is entitled to an old-age pension.

     If you are a woman who is entitled to an old-age pension, whether or not you have completed the qualifying period (such as that required by a housewife), and you are also entitled to a benefit for dependents of a work injured person, you will receive the full old-age pension along with half the dependents’ benefit, or half the old-age pension along with the full dependents' benefit.

      If you are a man who is entitled to both an old-age pension and a permanent work disability pension, you must this choose one of the benefits. If you choose the work disability pension, the amount of the pension will not be less than the amount of the old-age pension due to you.

Under certain circumstances, the National Insurance Institute will capitalize the disability pension (paying a lump sum instead of a pension), and after the capitalization, you will receive the old-age pension due to you.