Apply for job aids for people with disabilities in training and work at the job center
Description
Individual job aids support people with disabilities in training or work. The job center coordinates the support with you as an employer for your company.
Examples of work aids are access ramps, sanitary facilities or conversions in the company. The costs of work aids also include the necessary ancillary costs, for example planning costs, fees and expert costs. After receiving a subsidy, your company becomes the owner of the work aid.
Depending on the decision, the job center may cover all or part of the cost of the work aid for you.
Subsidies for work aids for people with disabilities are a matter of discretion; you do not have a legal right to them.
Under the following conditions, you as an employer can receive a subsidy from the Jobcenter for work aids in the company:
- The work aid is necessary for the permanent participation of the person with disabilities in working life.
- You do not have to bear the costs for the work aid yourself. In principle, you as the employer are responsible for providing a workplace suitable for the disabled for severely disabled persons and persons with equivalent disabilities.
- Implementing the work aid would be unreasonable for you or would involve a disproportionate amount of effort.
- The work aid is additionally required for a disability-friendly workplace or training place.
- The person for whom the job aid is intended has a disability or is threatened with a disability.
- The employment agency is the responsible rehabilitation agency for the person with a (threatening) disability. This usually applies to people before initial vocational training and if no other rehabilitation agency (for example, employers' liability insurance association or German pension insurance) is responsible.
- Application form
- Cost estimate
- Employment or training contract of the person with disabilities
- Invoice (to be submitted after application)
You can find out which documents are required in your case on the application form.
Be sure to submit the application before you purchase the work aid, sign a purchase agreement, or begin the removal or remodeling work.
You can find the office of the Federal Employment Agency responsible for you using the office finder.
Forms available: No
Written form required: Yes
Informal application possible: No
Personal appearance required: No
Online services available: No
You can only apply for job aids for people with disabilities in training and work in writing:
- Contact your contact person at the job center.
- Together, you can discuss which job aids come into question.
- You will receive the application documents either by mail or in person. If you have any questions about filling out the applications, please ask your contact person.
- Submit the documents to the Jobcenter with the required proofs.
- The job center will check whether the person with disabilities can become the owner of the job aid so that he/she could take the job aid with him/her to the next job/employer.
- In this case, the support for the work aid would be given to the person with disabilities and would be handled with him or her.
- The job center checks the necessary scope of the work aid. In doing so, it also checks whether an inspection of the workplace may be necessary.
- You will receive a preliminary written decision as to whether the requested assistance will be approved.
- If the aid is approved, you purchase the work aids for your company and submit the invoice to the job center.
- Finally, you will receive a notice of approval for the specific benefit.
Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS)
01.11.2022
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
