# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第五十五条の五 (Article 55-5) - 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: 第五十五条の五 (Article 55-5)（進学・就職準備給付金の支給） — address `art-55-5` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-5 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条の五（進学・就職準備給付金の支給） — Payment of School Enrollment and Job-search Preparation Benefit caption: machine translation, not official art-55-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-5 **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、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（十八歳に達する日以後の最初の三月三十一日までの間にある者その他厚生労働省令で定める者に限る。）であつて、次の各号のいずれかに該当するものに対して、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、進学・就職準備給付金を支給する。 art-55-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-5/par-1 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: machine translation, not official **一** 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 art-55-5/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-5/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-5/par-1/item-1 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); machine translation, not official **二** 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 art-55-5/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-5/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-5/par-1/item-2 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. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前条第二項及び第三項の規定は、進学・就職準備給付金の支給について準用する。 art-55-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-5/par-2 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. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-55-5/par-1/item-1: 次条 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の六 (Article 55-6), art-55-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-6 - art-55-5/par-2: 前条第二項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の四第二項 (Article 55-4, paragraph (2)), 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 - art-55-5/par-2: 第三項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の四第三項 (Article 55-4, paragraph (3)), 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 ## Cited by 11 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 附則第二条第一項（進学準備給付金の支給に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4301-44/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4301-44/art-2/par-1 - 生活保護法 附則第三条第一項（進学・就職準備給付金の支給に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-5061-21/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5061-21/art-3/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