予備費１．５兆円支出を決定　ガソリン補助や生活困窮者支援―政府

　政府は２８日の閣議で、ガソリンなど燃料価格を抑制する補助金の拡充や生活困窮者支援の財源として、２０２２年度予算の予備費から総額１兆５１１０億円を支出することを決定した。新型コロナウイルス対策予備費（５兆円）から１兆１１７０億円、一般予備費（約５０００億円）から３９４０億円をそれぞれ拠出する。
　予備費支出は、２６日に決定した物価高騰への「総合緊急対策」の一環。一般予備費から、燃料価格抑制のため石油元売り会社に支給する補助金の５月分に充てる２７７４億円などを支出する。
　コロナ予備費からは、自治体が生活困窮者支援などに利用する「地方創生臨時交付金」の拡充に８０００億円を支出。低所得の子育て世帯を対象に児童１人当たり５万円を給付するために２０４３億円、中小企業を支援する「事業再構築補助金」に１０００億円をそれぞれ充てる。（2022/04/28-10:30）

The Japanese government decided Thursday to spend 1,511 billion yen from its fiscal 2022 budget's reserve funds on measures in a recently adopted comprehensive emergency package to address soaring prices.
   The cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a meeting on the day approved plans to use 1,117 billion yen out of the 5-trillion-yen reserve funds earmarked for novel coronavirus measures and 394 billion yen out of the roughly 500-billion-yen general reserve funds. The emergency package was adopted Tuesday.
   Of the money from the general reserve funds, 277.4 billion yen will be for subsidies for May to be paid to oil wholesalers to help curb gasoline and other fuel prices.
   Of the funds from the coronavirus reserves, 800 billion yen will be put up to expand a program giving subsidies to local governments as resources for aid to needy people, while 204.3 billion yen will be spent for an initiative to provide low-income child-rearing families with 50,000 yen in cash benefits per kid and 100 billion yen as subsidies to help small companies.
   To replenish the reserve funds, the government is considering including 1.5 trillion yen in its planned fiscal 2022 supplementary budget, to be submitted to the ongoing regular session of the Diet, Japan's parliament.