# 児童扶養手当法 / Child Rearing Allowance Act — 第五条 (Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 児童扶養手当法 (Child Rearing Allowance Act), 昭和三十六年法律第二百三十八号 - English title "Child Rearing Allowance Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第五条 (Article 5)（手当額） — address `art-5` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五条（手当額） — Amount of Allowance caption: machine translation, not official art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5 **第一項** 手当は、月を単位として支給するものとし、その額は、一月につき、四万千百円とする。 art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5/par-1 The allowance is to be paid in units of months, and the amount is 41,100 yen per month. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第四条に定める要件に該当する児童であつて、父が監護し、かつ、これと生計を同じくするもの、母が監護するもの又は養育者が養育するもの（以下「監護等児童」という。）が二人以上である父、母又は養育者に支給する手当の額は、前項の規定にかかわらず、同項に定める額（次条第一項及び第二項において「基本額」という。）に監護等児童のうちの一人以外の監護等児童につきそれぞれ一万七百五十円を加算した額とする。 art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5/par-2 The amount of the allowance paid to a father, mother or person raising the child who has two or more children who fall under the requirements prescribed in Article 4 and who are in the custody of the father and share a livelihood with him, are in the custody of the mother, or are raised by a person raising the child (hereinafter referred to as "children in custody, etc."), is, notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, the amount prescribed in that paragraph (referred to as the "basic amount" in paragraphs (1) and (2) of the following Article) plus 10,750 yen for each child in custody, etc. other than one of the children in custody, etc. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-5/par-2: 第四条 → 児童扶養手当法 第四条 (Article 4), art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-4 - art-5/par-2: 前項 → 児童扶養手当法 第五条第一項 (Article 5, paragraph (1)), art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5/par-1 - art-5/par-2: 次条第一項 → 児童扶養手当法 第五条の二第一項 (Article 5-2, paragraph (1)), art-5-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5-2/par-1 - art-5/par-2: 第二項 → 児童扶養手当法 第五条の二第二項 (Article 5-2, paragraph (2)), art-5-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5-2/par-2 ## Cited by 19 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童扶養手当法 第五条第二項（手当額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5/par-2 - 児童扶養手当法 第五条の二第二項（手当額の自動改定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5-2/par-2 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第一条第二項第三号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-1/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3551-82/art-1/par-2/item-3 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第一条第二項（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-3611-40/art-1/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3611-40/art-1/par-2 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第一条第二項（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-3621-44/art-1/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3621-44/art-1/par-2 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第一条第二項（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-3631-56/art-1/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3631-56/art-1/par-2 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第一条第二項第一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4011-86/art-1/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4011-86/art-1/par-2/item-1 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第一条第二項第一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4061-95/art-1/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4061-95/art-1/par-2/item-1 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第十一条第一項（児童扶養手当法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-5061-47/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-5061-47/art-11/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第二項第三号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-1/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-1/par-2/item-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第二項第一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4011-86/art-1/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4011-86/art-1/par-2/item-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第二項第一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4061-95/art-1/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4061-95/art-1/par-2/item-1 - 国民年金法 附則第一条第二項第三号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-3551-82/art-1/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3551-82/art-1/par-2/item-3 - 国民年金法 附則第三十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-3601-34/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3601-34/art-33/par-2 - 国民年金法 附則第三十三条第二項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-3601-34/art-33/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3601-34/art-33/par-2/item-1 - 国民年金法 附則第一条第二項（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-3621-44/art-1/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3621-44/art-1/par-2 - 国民年金法 附則第一条第二項（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-3631-56/art-1/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3631-56/art-1/par-2 - 国民年金法 附則第一条第二項第一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-4011-86/art-1/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-4011-86/art-1/par-2/item-1 - 国民年金法 附則第一条第二項第一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-4061-95/art-1/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-4061-95/art-1/par-2/item-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 児童扶養手当法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/336AC0000000238/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-04 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 児童扶養手当法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/788), retrieved 2026-09-23 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch child-rearing-allowance-act-20261104T155257-002, translated 2026-11-05 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch child-rearing-allowance-act-20261104T155257-002, translated 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 児童扶養手当法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-04