Apply for benefits from the assistance fund

• You submit an application for benefits from the Assistance Benefits Fund to the Lower Saxony State Office for Social Affairs, Youth and Family in Hildesheim.
• The authority will check your application and contact you if there are any queries or missing documents.
• Once all the documents have been submitted, the authority will check your entitlement to benefits from the Assistance Benefits Fund.
• After the review, you will receive a notice of approval or rejection.

• You are involved in economic, cultural, social, sporting or political areas in a registered association or in an association with regional subdivisions whose next highest level is a registered association
  or
• are active in political bodies (council, district council, state parliament)
  or
• in committees that are convened on the basis of federal or state regulations (e.g. working group in accordance with Section 94 (4) SGB IX, arbitration board in accordance with Section 133 SGB IX)are active on a voluntary basis free of charge or only in return for an expense allowance within the meaning of the EStG
• You have your habitual residence in Lower Saxony.
• You have been determined to have the mark B (entitlement to permanent accompaniment), the mark Bl (blind) or the mark H (helpless within the meaning of § 33b EStG or corresponding regulations) by a notice of assessment in accordance with § 152 Ninth Book of the Social Code (SGB IX)
  or
• You are dependent on the use of communication aids such as sign language, written or spoken language interpreters or the use of transmission systems (e.g. induction or FM systems) and you have been diagnosed with the mark Gl (deafness) or the mark TBl (deaf-blindness) or you have a degree of disability of at least 70 solely due to a hearing impairment.

• Copy
• of the notice of assessment or the severely disabled person's pass with the mark B, H, Bl, TBl or Gl

or

• the assessment notice with which a degree of disability (GdB) of 70 was determined solely due to a hearing impairment

• Proof of habitual residence in Lower Saxony;
• Documents that are suitable to prove the assumption of the leading function in an honorary office or the honorary activity in a committee (e.g. confirmations of the association or the political committee, association statutes)
• if communication aids or transmission systems are used, the relevant invoices must be submitted
• if the application cannot or should not be submitted by the applicant, proof that the applicant is authorized to submit the application (e.g. power of attorney, guardian's certificate)

No deadlines need to be observed. However, the application must be closely related to the purpose.

A decision on the application will be made as quickly as possible. The processing time depends, among other things, on the completeness of the information and the submission of the evidence required for processing the application.

• Directive on the granting of benefits from the state fund for blind people in special life situations (state fund for the blind) and from the assistance benefit fund for people with disabilities working on a voluntary basis in a managerial capacity or on committees

Forms available: Yes

Written form required: Yes

Informal application possible: Yes

Personal appearance necessary: No

Applications can be made in writing (informally or using an application form, which you can obtain from the Lower Saxony State Office for Social Affairs, Youth and Family) or online.

Lawsuit

Although an informal application is possible, you will need to complete the application form afterwards.

On the website of the Lower Saxony State Office for Social Affairs, Youth and Family (LS) you will find further information on the Assistance Benefits Fund.

• Information from the LS on benefits from the Assistance Benefits Fund

Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Labor, Health and Equality

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