# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第七十八条の二 (Article 78-2) - 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: 第七十八条の二 (Article 78-2) — address `art-78-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-78-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-78-2 - 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. --- ### 第七十八条の二 art-78-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-78-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-78-2 **第一項** 保護の実施機関は、被保護者が、保護金品（金銭給付によつて行うものに限る。）の交付を受ける前に、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該保護金品の一部を、第七十七条の二第一項又は前条第一項の規定により保護費を支弁した都道府県又は市町村の長が徴収することができる徴収金の納入に充てる旨を申し出た場合において、保護の実施機関が当該被保護者の生活の維持に支障がないと認めたときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該被保護者に対して保護金品を交付する際に当該申出に係る徴収金を徴収することができる。 art-78-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-78-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-78-2/par-1 When a public assistance recipient has, before receiving delivery of public assistance benefit (limited to that provided by performance in money), requested, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, that a part of the public assistance benefit be applied to payment of the amount to be collected that the governor or mayor of the prefecture or municipality that has paid the public assistance expenses may collect under the provisions of Article 77-2, paragraph (1) or paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, and the public assistance administrator finds that this will not hinder the maintenance of the livelihood of that public assistance recipient, the public assistance administrator may, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, collect the amount to be collected pertaining to that request when delivering the public assistance benefit to that public assistance recipient. machine translation, not official **第二項** 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は、被保護者が、就労自立給付金の支給を受ける前に、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該就労自立給付金の額の全部又は一部を、第七十七条の二第一項又は前条第一項の規定により保護費を支弁した都道府県又は市町村の長が徴収することができる徴収金の納入に充てる旨を申し出たときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該被保護者に対して就労自立給付金を支給する際に当該申出に係る徴収金を徴収することができる。 art-78-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-78-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-78-2/par-2 A person who pays the benefit for employment and self-support pursuant to the provisions of Article 55-4, paragraph (1) may, when a public assistance recipient has, before receiving payment of the benefit for employment and self-support, requested, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, that all or a part of the amount of that benefit for employment and self-support be applied to payment of the amount to be collected that the governor or mayor of the prefecture or municipality that has paid the public assistance expenses may collect under the provisions of Article 77-2, paragraph (1) or paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, collect, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the amount to be collected pertaining to that request when paying the benefit for employment and self-support to that public assistance recipient. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前二項の規定により第七十七条の二第一項又は前条第一項の規定による徴収金が徴収されたときは、当該被保護者に対して当該保護金品（第一項の申出に係る部分に限る。）の交付又は当該就労自立給付金（前項の申出に係る部分に限る。）の支給があつたものとみなす。 art-78-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-78-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-78-2/par-3 When the amount to be collected under Article 77-2, paragraph (1) or paragraph (1) of the preceding Article has been collected pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the delivery of that public assistance benefit (limited to the part pertaining to the request under paragraph (1)) or the payment of that benefit for employment and self-support (limited to the part pertaining to the request under the preceding paragraph) to that public assistance recipient is deemed to have been made. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-78-2/par-1: 第七十七条の二第一項 → 生活保護法 第七十七条の二第一項 (Article 77-2, paragraph (1)), art-77-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-77-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-77-2/par-1 - art-78-2/par-1: 前条第一項 → 生活保護法 第七十八条第一項 (Article 78, paragraph (1)), art-78/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-78/par-1 - art-78-2/par-2: 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/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-4/par-1 - art-78-2/par-2: 第七十七条の二第一項 → 生活保護法 第七十七条の二第一項 (Article 77-2, paragraph (1)), art-77-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-77-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-77-2/par-1 - art-78-2/par-2: 前条第一項 → 生活保護法 第七十八条第一項 (Article 78, paragraph (1)), art-78/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-78/par-1 - art-78-2/par-3: 前二項 → 生活保護法 第七十八条の二第一項 (Article 78-2, paragraph (1)), art-78-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-78-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-78-2/par-1 - art-78-2/par-3: 前二項 → 生活保護法 第七十八条の二第二項 (Article 78-2, paragraph (2)), art-78-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-78-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-78-2/par-2 - art-78-2/par-3: 第七十七条の二第一項 → 生活保護法 第七十七条の二第一項 (Article 77-2, paragraph (1)), art-77-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-77-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-77-2/par-1 - art-78-2/par-3: 前条第一項 → 生活保護法 第七十八条第一項 (Article 78, paragraph (1)), art-78/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-78/par-1 ## Cited by 6 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 第七十八条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-78-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-78-2/par-3 - 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-20261019T143855-007, 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