# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第七十五条 (Article 75) - 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: 第七十五条 (Article 75)（国の負担及び補助） — address `art-75` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-75 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-75 - 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. --- ### 第七十五条（国の負担及び補助） — (Expenses Borne or Subsidized by the State) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-75 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-75 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-75 **第一項** 国は、政令で定めるところにより、次に掲げる費用を負担しなければならない。 art-75/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-75/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-75/par-1 The State shall bear the following expenses pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order: machine translation, not official **一** 市町村及び都道府県が支弁した保護費、保護施設事務費及び委託事務費の四分の三 art-75/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-75/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-75/par-1/item-1 Three-quarters of the amount of the public assistance expenses, office expenses for a public assistance facility, and office expenses for entrustment paid by a municipality or prefecture machine translation, not official **二** 市町村及び都道府県が支弁した就労自立給付金費及び進学・就職準備給付金費の四分の三 art-75/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-75/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-75/par-1/item-2 Three-quarters of the amount of the expenses for the benefit for employment and self-support and the expenses for the school enrollment and job-search preparation benefit paid by municipalities and prefectures machine translation, not official **三** 市町村が支弁した被保護者就労支援事業及び被保護者健康管理支援事業に係る費用のうち、当該市町村における人口、被保護者の数その他の事情を勘案して政令で定めるところにより算定した額の四分の三 art-75/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-75/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-75/par-1/item-3 Of the expenses pertaining to the employment support programme for public assistance recipients and the health management support programme for public assistance recipients paid by a municipality, three-quarters of the amount calculated as provided by Cabinet Order in consideration of the population of that municipality, the number of public assistance recipients and other circumstances machine translation, not official **四** 都道府県が支弁した被保護者就労支援事業及び被保護者健康管理支援事業に係る費用のうち、当該都道府県の設置する福祉事務所の所管区域内の町村における人口、被保護者の数その他の事情を勘案して政令で定めるところにより算定した額の四分の三 art-75/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-75/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-75/par-1/item-4 Of the expenses pertaining to the employment support programme for public assistance recipients and the health management support programme for public assistance recipients paid by a prefecture, three-quarters of the amount calculated as provided by Cabinet Order in consideration of the population, the number of public assistance recipients and other circumstances in the towns and villages within the jurisdictional districts of the welfare offices established by that prefecture machine translation, not official **第二項** 国は、政令で定めるところにより、次に掲げる費用を補助することができる。 art-75/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-75/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-75/par-2 The State may, pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order, subsidize the following expenses: machine translation, not official **一** 市町村が支弁した子どもの進路選択支援事業、被保護者就労準備支援事業、被保護者家計改善支援事業及び被保護者地域居住支援事業に係る費用のうち、当該市町村における人口、被保護者の数その他の事情を勘案して政令で定めるところにより算定した額の三分の二以内 art-75/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-75/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-75/par-2/item-1 Of the expenses pertaining to the career path support programme for children, the employment preparation support programme for public assistance recipients, the household finance improvement support programme for public assistance recipients and the community living support programme for public assistance recipients paid by a municipality, up to two-thirds of the amount calculated as provided by Cabinet Order in consideration of the population of that municipality, the number of public assistance recipients and other circumstances machine translation, not official **二** 都道府県が支弁した子どもの進路選択支援事業、被保護者就労準備支援事業、被保護者家計改善支援事業及び被保護者地域居住支援事業に係る費用のうち、当該都道府県の設置する福祉事務所の所管区域内の町村における人口、被保護者の数その他の事情を勘案して政令で定めるところにより算定した額の三分の二以内 art-75/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-75/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-75/par-2/item-2 Of the expenses pertaining to the career path support programme for children, the employment preparation support programme for public assistance recipients, the household finance improvement support programme for public assistance recipients and the community living support programme for public assistance recipients paid by a prefecture, up to two-thirds of the amount calculated as provided by Cabinet Order in consideration of the population, the number of public assistance recipients and other circumstances in the towns and villages within the jurisdictional districts of the welfare offices established by that prefecture machine translation, not official **第三項** 国は、政令の定めるところにより、都道府県が第七十四条第一項の規定により保護施設の設置者に対して補助した金額の三分の二以内を補助することができる。 art-75/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-75/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-75/par-3 The State may, pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order, subsidize up to two-thirds of the amount that a prefecture has subsidized to the founder of a public assistance facility pursuant to the provisions of Article 74, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The State may, pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order, subsidize up to two-thirds of the amount that a prefecture has subsidized to the establisher of a public assistance facility pursuant to the provisions of Article 74, paragraph (1)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/24/tb --- ## Cites - art-75/par-3: 第七十四条第一項 → 生活保護法 第七十四条第一項 (Article 74, paragraph (1)), art-74/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-74/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 附則第九項（国の無利子貸付け等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-3251-144/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-3251-144/par-9 - 生活保護法 附則第十二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-3251-144/par-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-3251-144/par-12 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Public Assistance Act (生活保護法), Article 75, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/24/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch public-assistance-act-20261019T143855-006, 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