Applying for individual funding for participation in working life

On a case-by-case basis, you can apply for supplementary support benefits if it is necessary to take up an apprenticeship or job due to the nature or severity of your disability. Individual funding includes, for example:

• Motor Vehicle Assistance
• Work Assistance
• Technical Work Aids
• Aid
• Loss of earnings
• Housing Assistance

If the Employment Agency is your responsible rehabilitation provider and you meet the requirements for funding, it will cover the costs.

Information on the respective individual case funding:

Motor Vehicle Assistance

There are different benefits that you can apply for:

• Subsidy for the purchase of a motor vehicle
• Assumption of the costs for additional equipment due to the disability and repairs of the additional equipment
• Cost subsidy for the acquisition of a driving licence
• Benefits in cases of hardship, such as a subsidy for transport costs incurred by transport services

The subsidies for the purchase of a motor vehicle and for the driving licence depend on the level of your income. The costs for additional equipment required due to the disability will be covered in full by the Employment Agency.

When you buy a motor vehicle, you will receive a maximum of EUR 22,000 of the purchase price. There is an exception if you absolutely need a motor vehicle with a higher purchase price due to the nature and severity of the disability.

Alternatively, you can also receive subsidies for transport costs as part of the hardship scheme. As a rule, there is a personal contribution.

Work Assistance

In principle, you can participate in working life, but need support in carrying out your employment due to your disability? Then work assistance will help you to fulfill your professional duties.

The work assistance goes beyond occasional handouts. It is a regularly recurring support for severely disabled people in terms of time and activity. You have to do the actual work yourself. This does not cover short-term and irregular aid.

The aim of the benefit is to get you a job subject to social security contributions. The costs of work assistance are covered by the responsible rehabilitation institution for a period of up to 3 years. They are also entitled to this overall entitlement in the event of changing jobs. If you continue to need work assistance after the maximum funding period has expired, the Integration Office is responsible for accompanying assistance in working life.

However, in order to simplify the administrative process, the integration offices take over the execution of the service from the outset.

Technical Work Aids

Technical work aids are devices and devices that make a workplace accessible to the disabled. They are intended to compensate for your disability-related disadvantages.

Examples of technical work aids:

• Screen Reader
• One-handed keyboard
• orthopedic office chair

Technical aids are tailored to your individual needs in the workplace. Since the subsidised items become your property, you can take them with you when you change jobs.

Aid

Support in the context of participation in working life is about aids that are necessary due to the nature and severity of your disability

• for training or professional practice,
• to participate in a benefit for participation in working life, or
• to increase safety on the way to work or at work.

Assistive devices include, for example, orthopaedic safety shoes or orthopaedic foot protection if they are required exclusively for activities in a specific occupation or vocational training.

Loss of earnings

You or a person who needs to accompany you must travel to a training course or an interview at a new job. And this is only possible during normal working hours? Then you or your companion will be compensated for a possible loss of earnings.

Housing Assistance

Housing assistance benefits include financial assistance for:

• the cost of procurement,
• the equipment as well as
• the maintenance of a handicapped accessible apartment.

This should enable you to reach the place of your vocational training or your workplace as barrier-free and independently as possible. The specific benefits depend on your personal situation and needs.