Gesundheit und Vorsorge
If you have a permanent disability or are at risk of such a disability, you may be able to apply for integration assistance.
Basic information
Social Code XII § 53 regulates the entitlement of disabled people or people at risk of disability to integration assistance. Integration assistance for disabled people is a benefit of social assistance (Social Code XII), which pursues the goal of integrating the disabled person into society and enabling him to lead a largely independent life. Benefits of integration assistance are:
- Services for medical rehabilitation
- Services for participation in working life
- Services in recognized workshops for disabled people
- Benefits for participation in life in the community
- Assistance for an appropriate school education
- Assistance for school education for an appropriate occupation, including attendance at a college or university
- Assistance for training for another appropriate occupation
Follow-up assistance to ensure the effectiveness of medical and medically prescribed measures and to ensure the disabled person's participation in working life.
Requirements
The group of persons entitled to benefits includes both disabled persons and persons at risk of disability. Persons who are substantially limited in their ability to participate in society as a result of a disability or who are threatened by such a substantial disability are entitled to benefits from integration assistance (Section 2 (1) sentence 1 of Social Code IX).
Disabled within the meaning of Section 2 (1) sentence 1 of Social Code IX are people whose physical function, mental ability or mental health is expected to deviate from the typical condition for their age for more than six months and whose participation in society is therefore impaired. People are threatened by a disability if the impairment is to be expected (Section 2 (1) of the Social Code IX).
A further prerequisite is that the impairment is a significant disability that substantially impairs integration into society.
