Public Assistance Act

A prefectural governor, a mayor and the mayor of a town or village that administers a welfare office shall, in order to promote the self-support of public assistance recipients, pay, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, a benefit for employment and self-support to a public assistance recipient who has a place of residence within the jurisdictional district of the welfare office under their management (or, where there is no place of residence or it is unclear, who is within that jurisdictional district) and who has been found to no longer require public assistance by reason of having taken up stable employment specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare or on any other grounds specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

A person who pays the benefit for employment and self-support pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may delegate all or part of the affairs concerning the payment of the benefit for employment and self-support only to an administrative agency under his/her management.

A person who pays the benefit for employment and self-support pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) is not precluded from entrusting part of the affairs concerning the payment of the benefit for employment and self-support to another person who pays the benefit for employment and self-support, as provided by Cabinet Order.

A prefectural governor, a mayor and the mayor of a town or village that administers a welfare office shall pay, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, a school enrollment and job-search preparation benefit to a public assistance recipient who has a place of residence within the jurisdictional district of the welfare office under their management (or, where there is no place of residence or it is unclear, who is within that jurisdictional district) (limited to a person who is within the period up to the first March 31 on or after the day on which the person reaches the age of 18, and any other person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) and who falls under any of the following items:

a person who is expected to definitely enter an educational and training facility specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, in consideration of the content of education and training and other circumstances, from among educational and training facilities (referred to as a "specified educational and training facility" in the following Article);

a person who is expected to definitely take up stable employment specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and any other person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as being equivalent thereto.

The provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of the school enrollment and job-search preparation benefit.

A person who pays the benefit for employment and self-support pursuant to the provisions of Article 55-4, paragraph (1) or a person who pays the school enrollment and job-search preparation benefit pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (referred to as a "paying authority" in Article 69) may, when finding it necessary for the payment of the benefit for employment and self-support or the school enrollment and job-search preparation benefit or for the enforcement of the provisions of Article 78, paragraph (3), request a report from a public assistance recipient or a person who was a public assistance recipient, or from the employer pertaining to those persons (including a person who intends to employ a public assistance recipient), the head of a specified educational and training facility, or any other person concerned.