Integration assistance

This compilation does not claim to be complete and is provided without guarantee.

Students with disabilities are entitled to “educational assistance at a university” in accordance with § 39 of the Federal Social Welfare Law (BSHG) and § 54 of the Twelfth Social Law Code (SGB XII) as well as § 33 of the Fifth Social Law (SGB V) and § 27 of the Second Social Law (SGB II). This is specified in the Integration Assistance Ordinance.

If BAföG or personal funds are not sufficient to cover living expenses and finance the necessary aids, students with disabilities or chronic illnesses can claim additional expenses under certain conditions.

Note for students who do not have their main residence in the federal state of Bremen:

Integration assistance must be applied for at the local office assigned to your main place of residence. Please find out which office is responsible for you.

The Integration Ordinance describes the requirements that must be met in order for integration assistance to be funded for academic training at a higher education institution. Aid for such training is paid if it is to be expected:

that the objective of the training or preparatory measures will be achieved

that the intended training path is required and

that the profession or occupation is likely to provide a sufficient livelihood, or

that academic training will contribute to achieving a good livelihood.

In principle, you must provide evidence that you have or are at risk of having a disability or chronic illness by means of a specialist medical report or your severely disabled person's ID card.

Further requisite evidence is the certificate of enrolment as well as detailed, appropriate grounds (necessity), provided, for example, by the student advisory service or a professor.

The Job Centre has put a database on Social Code II (Wissensdatenbank zum Sozialgesetzbuch II (SGB II) available only in Germany) on the internet. The database contains questions and answers on the application of the regulations of Social Code II.
In connection with the application for technical aids, there are always problems of responsibility between the health insurance fund and the local social welfare agency. When is an aid a compensation for a disability, when is it related to education? However, the clarification of responsibility is not the task of the students, but must be clarified between the health insurance fund, the accident insurance institution, the pension office and the local social welfare institution (always subordinate) within set deadlines. Cooperation between the rehabilitation agencies is regulated in § 12 of the Social Code IX (SGB IX).
“Assistance for education at a university” also covers the assistance required to attend courses (lectures, exercises, seminars, colloquia, excursions, and similar), to participate in written and oral examinations, to prepare presentations and assignments of all kinds, including library and other research, and to reach the university.

The costs of assistance required for a (professional) internship necessary for the course of study or a stay abroad necessary for the course of study or highly beneficial to the course of study are also covered. Since the course of study is not limited to the lecture period, assistance must also be provided during the lecture-free period (“semester break”).

Counselling Centre for Personal Assistance in Bremen (available only in German)

Integration assistance from the Office for Social Services

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Integration assistance

Requirements

Technical aids

Personal assistance