Annual Reporting in Your Birth Month

In order to continuously receive your pension benefits, you need to have us check annually if there is any change in your eligibility. If we have your My Number which is an Individual Number for social security and tax purpose, we can access your necessary information on the Basic Resident Registry Network to confirm if you are eligible to continuously receive benefits.
However, My Numbers are generally not assigned to people who do not have registered address in Japan, such as people living outside of Japan. Or, there are people who do have My Numbers but somehow we do not have their My Numbers yet.
If we do not have your My Number, we ask you to report about your information annually in your birth month, by sending us your Report on Pensioner's Status.
If you fail to submit the report by the due date, your pension payment will be suspended until we receive it.

The report form is sent to you from JPS Headquarters at the end of the third month prior to your birth month.
You need to fill in your name, address and other necessary information and return it enclosing documents as below, to JPS Headquarters. Your completed form must be received by us by the end of your birth month.

You need to submit any valid document issued by public authority which verifies your residence in the country. If you are a Japanese, you may submit a certificate of residence which can be issued by Japanese consulate in the country. Refer to the following "Regarding Submission of the Report on Pensioner's Status (for people living outside of Japan)" in different languages:

If you do not receive the report form due to postal situation or other reasons, print the appropriate report form on our HP as below and submit the completed form with proof of residence to the address below, without waiting for the report form from JPS to arrive.
For those who cannot print the form, write your Basic Pension Number, name, date of birth, address, and reason for submission (e.g. the report form has not arrived) on any piece of paper. Then enclose the certificate of residence or other documents and send to:

(in English)

Japan Pension Service
Overseas Payments and International Agreements Group
3-5-24, Takaido-Nishi, Suginami-Ku,
Tokyo 168-8505 JAPAN

(in Japanese)

〒168-8505 東京都杉並区⾼井⼾⻄3丁目5番24号
⽇本年⾦機構 中央年⾦センター 外国業務グループ

Early in your birth month every year you will receive the report form which is sent directly from JPS Headquarters. You need to fill in your name, address and other necessary information and return it enclosing documents as below, to JPS Headquarters. Your completed form must be received by JPS Headquarters by the end of your birth month.

From February 2017, you need to submit a certified copy of Japanese Resident Registry, or you need to fill in your My Number on the report form. If you once registered your address in Japan but currently reside outside of Japan, you also need to enclose "Notification of Registration (Change) of Address/Pension-receiving Financial Institution of Pension Recipient Residing Outside Japan."

When you fill in your My Number on the report form, you need to submit a photocopy of document to prove that the number is correct* and that you are the genuine holder of the Number.**

* For example, copy of your My Number Card which shows your Number

** If your name and address are already printed on your report form when you receive it, you do not need to submit document to prove you are the genuine holder of the Number.

If the report form does not reach you by the middle of your birth month, contact your nearest JPS branch office, or the municipal office of your place of residence.
We do not send you the report form in following cases, because your reporting is not necessary:

1. A full year has not yet elapsed between your first pension entitlement date (you can find the date on your Pension Certificate), and the final day of your next birth month.
2. Payment of your total pension benefits is stopped.
3. A full year has not yet elapsed between the date your stopped benefits start to be paid again, and the final day of your next birth month. (Except for the case that you are a working beneficiary with full benefits suspension and then your stopped benefits starts because you retire or your remuneration reduces.)