Chapter VIII Benefit for Employment and Self-Support and School Enrollment and Job-search Preparation Benefit
第八章 就労自立給付金及び進学・就職準備給付金
Article 55-4Payment of Benefit for Employment and Self-Support
第五十五条の四（就労自立給付金の支給）
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.
前項の規定により就労自立給付金を支給する者は、就労自立給付金の支給に関する事務の全部又は一部を、その管理に属する行政庁に限り、委任することができる。
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.
第一項の規定により就労自立給付金を支給する者は、就労自立給付金の支給に関する事務の一部を、政令で定めるところにより、他の就労自立給付金を支給する者に委託して行うことを妨げない。
Article 55-5Payment of School Enrollment and Job-search Preparation Benefit
第五十五条の五（進学・就職準備給付金の支給）
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);
教育訓練施設のうち教育訓練の内容その他の事情を勘案して厚生労働省令で定めるもの（次条において「特定教育訓練施設」という。）に確実に入学すると見込まれる者
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.
厚生労働省令で定める安定した職業に確実に就くと見込まれる者その他これに準ずる者として厚生労働省令で定める者
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.
第五十五条の六（報告）
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.