Mediation budget

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Funding from the placement budget is a social benefit to support the initiation or commencement of an employment subject to compulsory insurance. It is a matter of discretion , which is regulated by law in Section 44 of SGB ​​III (until March 31, 2012: Section 45 of SGB III old version).

Apprenticeship seekers, jobseekers at risk of unemployment and the unemployed can be funded , even if they do not receive ongoing benefits such as unemployment benefit or unemployment benefit II (as so-called non- benefit recipients). For people who receive ALG II, the funding option results from the reference in Section 16, Paragraph 1, Clause 2, No. 2 of SGB ​​II . The employment agency is responsible for granting services from the placement budget as long as there is no entitlement to ongoing services under SGB II. If unemployment benefit II is received, the job center is responsible.

Funding opportunities

The placement budget can be used to fund the initiation or commencement of an employment subject to compulsory insurance (work or training) if this is necessary for professional integration. For recipients of unemployment benefit II, benefits can also be provided for the initiation and start of school-based vocational training ( Section 16 (3) SGB II). In practice, the concept of initiation is partly interpreted broadly, so that it also includes progress in integration that only has an indirect reference to initiation or taking up an activity. The funding includes the assumption of reasonable costs if the employer does not or is not expected to provide similar services. The authority can set flat rates. Costs in connection with the initiation or commencement of an activity in the EU , the EEA and Switzerland can also be covered if the weekly working time is at least 15 hours. Benefits to secure livelihoods are excluded.

Typical services are the assumption of

  • Application costs,
  • Travel expenses for the interview,
  • Travel costs to start a job or training position,
  • Costs for commuting to the place of work or training,
  • Moving costs when starting work or training,
  • Separation costs,
  • Costs for work clothes or work equipment.

Since the law does not provide a concrete list of possible services and the term initiation can be interpreted broadly, other services are also conceivable, provided that they are necessary and appropriate in the individual case. Examples: Promotion of a bicycle (e.g. to get to work), clothing and a visit to the hairdresser for an interview, promotion of taking up marginal employment (as an integration progress towards taking up an activity subject to social insurance).

The type and amount of funding are regularly determined differently in the individual employment agencies on the basis of so-called discretionary instructions . However, these instructions are not published, but are classified as classified information with the level of confidentiality "VS-ONLY FOR SERVICE USE".

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