1. Application for Making Payments
Farmers who voluntarily begin making payments into farmers’ pensions shall fill out applications and file them with the base level farmers’ association or district fishermen's association through (base level farmers' association or district fishermen's association) which they are covered by FHI. On receiving the application, the farmers' association（fishermen's association）should, on the same day when the application is reviewed and confirmed compliant, notify the BLI to commence the payment.
2. Application for Discontinuing the Contribution
Farmers who voluntarily cease making payments into farmers’ pensions shall fill out applications and file them with the base level farmers’ association or district fishermen's association through (base level farmers' association or district fishermen's association) which they are covered by FHI. Farmers’ associations（fishermen's association）that accept applications shall, on the day that they review whether the applying farmer handle the ceasing of payments, notify the BLI to begin or cease payments to farmers’ pensions.
3. Reporting the Adjustment of payment ratio
Farmers can apply to the base level farmers’ associations or district fishermen's association through which they are covered by FHI in May or November of each year to adjust the payment ratio, and the farmers’ association（fishermen's association） shall notify the BLI before the end of the month in which the application was received; the adjustment shall take effect from the first day of the month following notification.
[Example]: If a farmer submits to the farmers' association（fishermen's association）his/her application for the adjustment of payment ratio on May 15, the farmers' association（fishermen's association）should report the case before end of May. The adjustment shall take effect on June 1.