Changes on a date not yet set (Act No. 48 of 1985)
When the prefectural governor, etc. finds it necessary in connection with a disposition concerning payment of the allowance, the prefectural governor, etc. may, concerning the status of the assets or income of an eligible recipient, the child, or the spouse or a person under a duty of support of the eligible recipient, or the status of payment of public pension benefits to an eligible recipient, the child, or the father or mother of the child, request a government agency, the Japan Pension Service, a mutual aid association organized by law, the Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations, or the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan to allow inspection of necessary documents or to provide materials, or request a bank, a trust company or other institution, or the employer of an eligible recipient or another person concerned, to report necessary matters.
childmachine translation
「児童」
A person up to the first 31 March on or after the day they turn 18, or a person under 20 who has a disability of the degree a Cabinet Order (政令) sets.
Defined inArticle 3, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
public pension benefitmachine translation
「公的年金給付」
Any of the benefits Article 3, paragraph (2) lists: pension benefits under the National Pension Act, the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including those paid by the mutual aid associations (共済組合) of Article 28 of its supplementary provisions (附則)), the Mariners Insurance Act (only those kept under the earlier rules by Article 39 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 30 of 2007)), the Public Officers Pension Act, local ordinances (条例) on retirement pensions for local public officers, the Act on Special Measures concerning Beneficiaries of Pension of Mutual Aid Association Established under Former Ordinances (those paid by the Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations (国家公務員共済組合連合会)), the Act on Relief of War Victims and Survivors and the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act; the family allowance (留守家族手当) and special allowance (特別手当) under the Act on Aid to Families and Others Related to Unrepatriated Persons; and annuity compensation (年金たる補償) under the National Public Officers' Accident Compensation Act, the Local Public Officers Accident Compensation Act and ordinances (条例) under it, and ordinances under the Act on Occupational Accident Compensation for Public School Physicians, Dentists, and Pharmacists.
Defined inArticle 3, paragraph (2)· applies throughout the law
spousemachine translation
「配偶者」
A spouse, including a partner in an unregistered marriage: a person who has not registered the marriage (婚姻の届出) but whose relationship is in fact the same as a marriage.
Defined inArticle 3, paragraph (3)· applies throughout the law
allowancemachine translation
「手当」
Short for the Child Rearing Allowance (児童扶養手当), which the prefectural governor, etc. (都道府県知事等) pays to the mother who has custody (監護) of, or the father who has custody of and shares a livelihood with, a child whose parents have divorced or whose other parent has died, has a disability of the degree a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, is missing or is in a similar situation, or to another person raising the child (養育者).
Short name set inArticle 4, paragraph (1)
prefectural governor, etc.machine translation
「都道府県知事等」
A prefectural governor, a city mayor (including the mayor of a special ward (特別区)), or the mayor of a town or village that runs a welfare office (福祉事務所) under the Social Welfare Act — the authorities that pay the Child Rearing Allowance (児童扶養手当).
Short name set inArticle 4, paragraph (1)
eligible recipientmachine translation
「受給資格者」
A person who meets the requirements for payment of the Child Rearing Allowance (児童扶養手当) — the mother, father or person raising the child (養育者) that Article 4, paragraph (1) names — and who must be certified (認定) by the prefectural governor, etc. (都道府県知事等) as to their eligibility and the amount before it is paid.
Short name set inArticle 6, paragraph (1)