Apply for integration assistance for adults with disabilities or for minors with physical, mental or sensory impairments

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Do you have a disability, are you at risk of a disability or are you caring for a child or a person with a disability? The wide range of integration assistance services are designed to help you participate in all areas of social life.

  • Service description

    Integration assistance services are intended to enable people with significant disabilities to participate fully in all areas of social life.

    Integration assistance benefits are divided into 4 benefit groups:

    • Medical rehabilitation services
    • Benefits for participation in education
    • Benefits for participation in working life
    • Benefits for social participation

    The services should enable you to organise your life as independently and autonomously as possible. The following integration assistance services, for example, can contribute to this:

    • Living
    • Finances
    • Household management
    • Leisure activities
    • Promotion of private contacts and hobbies
    • Visits to authorities (preparation and support), if not the task of a legal carer
    • Mobility
    • Parental assistance
    • Support at school, university or for further training at work
    • Support in the day care centre
    • Aids
    • Promoting understanding
    • Labour
    • Special form of housing

    The services are customised.

    You will receive integration assistance benefits if you do not receive the necessary benefits from other social benefit or rehabilitation providers, for example the health insurance fund, the pension insurance provider, the employment agency or the accident insurance provider.

    The costs for the services are borne by the responsible organisation for integration assistance. The federal states determine who is responsible for integration assistance.

    In the case of integration assistance benefits, you must always pay a contribution from your income and from your assets if they exceed a set limit. The income and assets of the person with disabilities receiving benefits and, in the case of minors entitled to benefits, of their parents, are relevant. Some benefits are exempt from contributions, for example curative education benefits, assistance with school education and benefits for social participation for beneficiaries who have not yet started school.

  • Which documents are required?

    • You must submit an application to the responsible office. This can be informal.
    • Please contact the office responsible for you to find out which additional documents you need to submit. The authority may ask you to use a form.

    Depending on the circumstances, you may need, for example

    • Proof of disability
    • all proof of income
    • Proof of accommodation costs and proof of assets (bank statement)

  • What deadlines do I have to observe?

    If the authority was unable to provide a service that could not be postponed on time and you incurred costs for a service that you procured yourself as a result, the authority must reimburse you for these costs if the service was necessary. The same applies if the authority has wrongly refused a benefit.

    If you procure a non-essential benefit yourself without prior authorisation from the competent authority, you are not entitled to any reimbursement.

    If you are entitled to integration assistance after your application has been reviewed, this will be granted to you from the first of the month in which the application was submitted at the earliest if the requirements were already met at that time.

    In order to achieve the most effective support possible for the disabled person, the social welfare provider draws up an overall plan for the implementation of the individual services as early as possible together with the disabled person, the attending doctor, the health authority and possibly the youth welfare office or the employment agency.

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Who should I contact?

The district or city in whose district the recipient of the assistance actually resides is responsible for granting integration assistance until the completion of schooling at a general school or a special school. However, you can also submit the application to your local authority. The municipality is obliged to forward the application to the competent authority.

The Landeswohlfahrtverband Hessen is responsible for benefits after completion of school education.

Responsible departments