Article 55-4Payment of Benefit for Employment and Self-Support

①A 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.

②A 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.

③A 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.