# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第五十五条の四 (Article 55-4) - 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: 第五十五条の四 (Article 55-4)（就労自立給付金の支給） — address `art-55-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-4 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条の四（就労自立給付金の支給） — Payment of Benefit for Employment and Self-Support caption: machine translation, not official art-55-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-4 **第一項** 都道府県知事、市長及び福祉事務所を管理する町村長は、被保護者の自立の助長を図るため、その管理に属する福祉事務所の所管区域内に居住地を有する（居住地がないか、又は明らかでないときは、当該所管区域内にある）被保護者であつて、厚生労働省令で定める安定した職業に就いたことその他厚生労働省令で定める事由により保護を必要としなくなつたと認めたものに対して、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、就労自立給付金を支給する。 art-55-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-4/par-1 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. machine translation, not official **第二項** 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。 art-55-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-4/par-2 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. machine translation, not official **第三項** 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。 art-55-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-4/par-3 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. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-55-4/par-2: 前項 → 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/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-4/par-1 - art-55-4/par-3: 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/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-4/par-1 ## Cited by 15 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-2 - 住民基本台帳法 別表第三 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-3 - 住民基本台帳法 別表第四 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-4 - 住民基本台帳法 別表第五第四十号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-5/item-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-5/item-40 - 生活保護法 第五十五条の四第二項（就労自立給付金の支給） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-4/par-2 - 生活保護法 第五十五条の四第三項（就労自立給付金の支給） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-4/par-3 - 生活保護法 第五十五条の五第二項（進学・就職準備給付金の支給） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-5/par-2 - 生活保護法 第五十五条の六第一項（報告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-6/par-1 - 生活保護法 第六十四条第一項（審査庁） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-64/par-1 - 生活保護法 第六十六条第一項（再審査請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-66/par-1 - 生活保護法 第七十条第一項第五号（市町村の支弁） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-70/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-70/par-1/item-5 - 生活保護法 第七十一条第一項第五号（都道府県の支弁） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-71/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-71/par-1/item-5 - 生活保護法 第七十八条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-78-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-78-2/par-2 - 生活保護法 附則第十条第一項（就労自立給付金に係る施行前の準備） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-10/par-1 - 生活保護法 別表第三 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/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