Free funding

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The Free promotion is a benefit . Through the free funding, the employment agencies have the opportunity to use a maximum of 10% of the integration funds allocated to them for benefits for integration in work in order to expand the possibilities of the legally regulated integration benefits. The services must correspond to the goals and principles of SGB ​​II . It is a discretionary exercise . Applications must be submitted to the relevant job center .

The background to this is the fact that the majority of the measures are precisely regulated by the legislature. Funding duration, amount and other features are specified in detail. On the one hand, free funding is intended to give employment agencies the opportunity to adapt measures to the local situation. On the other hand, they should be able to try out new paths which, if successful, can then be extended to all of Germany ( best practice ).

Legal basis

The legal basis for free funding is § 16f SGB ​​II.

Eligible

Since the law does not provide any specific regulations, those entitled according to SGB II (recipients of unemployment benefit II ), but also e.g. B. Employers or educational institutions are promoted.

Funding opportunities

There are three types of funding:

  • “Invention” of a new service that is not yet regulated by law
  • Increase or circumvention of legally regulated services
  • Project funding

The increase or circumvention of a legally regulated benefit is only permissible in the case of measures for long-term unemployed ( Section 18 SGB ​​III ), for which individual legal bases of SGB II or SGB III can be used within a reasonable period of usually six months with no prospect of success . In these cases, the funding requirements and the funding amount can be deviated from.

There is the public procurement law , in the case of project funding the Zuwendungs right application.

Example of bypassing a service

Services from the placement budget (e.g. travel expenses to the interview) can only be granted for the initiation or taking up of employment within the EU , the EEA or Switzerland. If it is a long-term unemployed person who cannot be funded with the regular instruments within a reasonable period of usually six months with any prospect of success, then the assumption of the costs to “non-European countries” is, as far as expedient, the free one Funding possible.