# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第五十五条の六 (Article 55-6) - Law: 生活保護法 (Public Assistance Act), 昭和二十五年法律第百四十四号 - English title "Public Assistance Act": Ministry of Justice translation - 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: 第五十五条の六 (Article 55-6)（報告） — address `art-55-6` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-6 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十五条の六（報告） — Reports caption: machine translation, not official art-55-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-6 **第一項** 第五十五条の四第一項の規定により就労自立給付金を支給する者又は前条第一項の規定により進学・就職準備給付金を支給する者（第六十九条において「支給機関」という。）は、就労自立給付金若しくは進学・就職準備給付金の支給又は第七十八条第三項の規定の施行のために必要があると認めるときは、被保護者若しくは被保護者であつた者又はこれらの者に係る雇主（被保護者を雇用しようとする者を含む。）若しくは特定教育訓練施設の長その他の関係人に、報告を求めることができる。 art-55-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-6/par-1 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. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-55-6/par-1: 第五十五条の四第一項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の四第一項 (Article 55-4, paragraph (1)), art-55-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-4/par-1 - art-55-6/par-1: 前条第一項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の五第一項 (Article 55-5, paragraph (1)), art-55-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-5/par-1 - art-55-6/par-1: 第六十九条 → 生活保護法 第六十九条 (Article 69), art-69 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-69 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-69 - art-55-6/par-1: 第七十八条第三項 → 生活保護法 第七十八条第三項 (Article 78, paragraph (3)), art-78/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-78/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-78/par-3 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第五十五条の五第一項第一号（進学・就職準備給付金の支給） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-5/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-5/par-1/item-1 - 生活保護法 第八十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-86/par-1 - 生活保護法 別表第三 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/appdx-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/appdx-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 生活保護法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/325AC0000000144/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Public Assistance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/24/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch public-assistance-act-20261019T143855-004, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 生活保護法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19