Disability

People with disabilities have a right to live the same way as people without physical or learning impairments. You will find information and services related to disability here.

Services in Disability

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Apply for a parking permit for severely disabled persons
Do you live in Rhineland-Palatinate and need a parking permit for severely disabled people? Severely disabled people with an exceptional walking disability (mark "aG")...
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Apply for a personal parking space for severely disabled persons
As a severely disabled person, you can apply for a parking space for severely disabled persons. To do so, you must meet certain requirements.
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Apply for a regular pension payment after a pension as total remuneration
Have you received a pension as total compensation following an accident at work, a commuting accident or an occupational illness and the period to which it related has expired? Then you can apply for a pension again under certain conditions.
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Apply for a subsidy for supplementary independent participation advice (EUTB)
Under certain conditions, applicants receive a subsidy to finance advisory services provided by the Supplementary Independent Participation Advisory Service (EUTB).
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Apply for assistance for the blind
If you are blind or equivalent to a blind person, you will receive financial support under certain conditions. This lump sum of money compensates for the additional expenses you incur due to your blindness.
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Apply for basic training for people with severe visual or hearing impairments
If you have a severe visual or hearing impairment, you first have to learn how to deal with the new situation. With basic training, you can learn special skills that you will need at work and in everyday life.
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Apply for benefits for participation in working life from the Federal Employment Agency
If you need support in finding training or a job or securing your training or job due to your (impending) disability(ies), you can receive support in the form of funding or special assistance.
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Apply for funding for in-company training for people with disabilities who are fully incapacitated for work
If you are currently unable to work at least 3 hours a day due to your disability, but would still like to complete a regular (initial) training course, you could be supported with the budget for training.
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Apply for funding for people with disabilities who would like to complete a training course
If you would like to do an apprenticeship and you need special support or assistance due to your disabilities, you can do the apprenticeship in companies or institutions that are equipped to meet your special needs.
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Apply for individual support for participation in working life
If you need support with professional integration or to secure an existing job due to your disability, you may be eligible for individual support.
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Apply for integration assistance for adults with disabilities or for minors with physical, mental or sensory impairments
Do you have a disability or are you at risk of a disability? Or do you look after 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.
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Apply for integration assistance for children and young people with mental disabilities or impending mental disabilities
If your child has a mental disability or is at risk of one and their participation in society is restricted as a result, you can apply for integration assistance.
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Apply for motor vehicle assistance for persons with statutory accident insurance
You are entitled to motor vehicle assistance if you are dependent on the use of a motor vehicle on a more than temporary basis due to the nature or severity of your health impairment.
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Apply for other assistance as individual benefits for participation in working life
If you need support with professional integration or to secure an existing job due to your disability, you may be eligible for other assistance.
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Apply for project funding from the equalization fund for supra-regional projects for the participation of severely disabled people in working life
If you are planning a pilot project that strengthens the inclusion of people with severe disabilities in the world of work, you can apply for funding from the equalization fund for supra-regional projects for the participation of severely disabled people in working life (AGF).
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Apply for reimbursement of costs for damaged or destroyed aids
If your glasses, prosthesis or other aid is damaged in an accident at work, on the way to work or at school, statutory accident insurance will cover the damage by paying the costs of repair or replacement.
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Apply for reimbursement of costs for remedies under statutory accident insurance
In the event of an accident at work or a recognized occupational illness, you can submit receipts for the costs of remedies to be covered by statutory accident insurance.
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Apply for subsidies for the training and employment of people with disabilities from the employment agency
If you provide in-company training or further training for people with disabilities and severely disabled people, you can receive a training allowance. If you subsequently employ severely disabled people on a permanent basis, you can receive a wage subsidy.
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Apply for subsidies for training and employment of people with disabilities at the Jobcenter
If you provide in-company training or further training for people with disabilities and severely disabled people, you can receive a training allowance. If you subsequently employ severely disabled people on a permanent basis, you can receive a wage subsidy.
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Apply to the Employment Agency for funding for people with disabilities who would like to complete further training
If you would like to do further training and need special support or assistance due to your disabilities, you can do the training in a company or institution that is equipped to meet your special needs.
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Apply to the employment agency for reimbursement of costs for trial employment of people with disabilities
If your company wants to employ people with disabilities on a temporary basis as part of a trial employment, you can be reimbursed the personnel costs for a maximum of 3 months under certain conditions.
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Apply to the employment agency for work aids for people with disabilities in training and employment
If your employees need special support during training or at work due to a disability, you as an employer can apply for work assistance.
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Apply to the job center for funding for people with disabilities who would like to complete further training
If you would like to do further training and need special support or assistance due to your disabilities, you can do the training in a company or institution that is equipped to meet your special needs.
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Apply to the job center for reimbursement of costs for trial employment of people with disabilities
If your company wants to employ people with disabilities on a temporary basis as part of a trial employment, you can be reimbursed the personnel costs for a maximum of 3 months under certain conditions.
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Apply to the Jobcenter for work aids for people with disabilities in training and employment
If your employees need special support during training or at work due to a disability, you as an employer can apply for work assistance.
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Applying for a determination of disability
Do you have a health disorder/illness that has lasted longer than 6 months and would like to have this determined as a disability in accordance with the German Disability...
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Applying for a supplement to the disabled person's pass with or without a token
If you are severely disabled, you are entitled to free public transport or a reduction in vehicle tax under certain conditions. If you have certain characteristics, you may be exempt from vehicle tax.
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Applying for accompanying assistance in working life for providers of integration services and inclusion companies
The establishment/start-up, expansion, modernization and equipping of an integration project can be funded by the Integration Office. Integration projects serve the permanent...
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Applying for an accident insurance pension in the event of a reduction in earning capacity of at least 40 percent
If your earning capacity is reduced by 40 percent or more, you can apply for a lump sum as compensation for a period of 10 years instead of an accident pension
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Applying for home care for disabled persons with long-term care insurance
If you live in a facility for people with disabilities, you may be entitled to social care insurance benefits.
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Applying for sickness benefit for an accompanying person during inpatient treatment of people with disabilities
You can receive sickness benefit if you accompany a person with a disability who is receiving inpatient treatment. The sickness benefit compensates you for the loss of earnings incurred as a result of accompanying the person.
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Applying for support from an integration service for a person with disabilities
If you need special support with professional integration or to secure your job due to your disability, the employment agency can commission a specialist integration service for this purpose.
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Applying for support in working life
Accompanying assistance is used to support people with severe disabilities in their working lives.
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Applying for support in working life for severely disabled people
If the workplace of an employed severely disabled person needs to be equipped, redesigned or fitted with a technical work aid for disability-related reasons, the Integration...
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Applying for the appointment of a guardian
A guardian is only appointed if this is necessary because a person is no longer able to manage all or part of their affairs. Guardians may only be appointed for those areas of...
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Applying for transitional allowance for people with disabilities
As a person with disabilities, you can receive a transitional allowance to cover your living costs if you are taking part in certain training measures.
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Applying for vocational training for people with disabilities who are fully incapacitated for work
If you are currently unable to work at least 3 hours a day due to your disability, you can receive support in a workshop for disabled people or from another service provider.
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Assumption of the costs of medicines and dressings in the event of an accident at work or occupational illness
If you require treatment as a result of an accident at work or commuting accident or a recognized occupational disease, your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will cover the costs of medicines and dressings for medical treatment.
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Benefits for social participation in statutory accident insurance
If your equal social participation is at risk as a result of an accident at work or commuting accident or a recognized occupational disease, you can receive benefits for social participation.
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Benefits in the event of a need for care for people with statutory accident insurance
If you become in need of care as a result of an accident at work, a commuting accident or an occupational illness, you can receive care allowance and other benefits from the statutory accident insurance.
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Checking professional suitability with diagnostic measures for people with disabilities
If you have a disability, you can receive support services to help you participate in working life. However, your occupational aptitude may need to be assessed or a work trial may need to take place first.
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Childcare services
Are they dependent on regular care? Then you can get information from the social welfare office or welfare association about various care offers.
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Crisis hotline for mentally ill people and their relatives 0800 - 220 330 0
The crisis hotline is a local service for people in life crises and people with mental illnesses who need advice or help by telephone when others cannot be reached. In the region...
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Defining training for disabled people without a recognised training occupation
People with disabilities or their representatives can apply to the competent chamber for special training regulations for themselves.
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Disability counselling
Do you have questions regarding the assessment procedure according to SGB IX (recognition of the status of severely disabled person) or the compensation for disadvantages?
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Disabled children and young people at school
Disabled and non-disabled children and young people should generally attend the same school in Rhineland-Palatinate.
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Disabled transport service
Severely disabled people can make use of so-called disabled transport services in some cities and municipalities.
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Early support for children with disabilities
Does your child have a developmental disorder and/or an (impending) disability? Then it is advisable to clarify your child's entitlement to early intervention services in order to support them on the path to a self-determined and largely independent life at an early stage.
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Forms of housing for people in need of care, including those with disabilities
Do you have any questions regarding the care of the elderly and people in need of care or the care of adult disabled people in institutions of care or integration assistance? Th...
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Grant disabled people equal status with severely disabled people
As a person with disabilities, you can be treated in the same way as severely disabled people under certain conditions.
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Granting sickness assistance
Children or adolescents in foster families or in inpatient facilities of children and youth welfare are entitled to sickness assistance.
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Health aid for children and adolescents at risk of development and disability
If you need help to support yourself and do not have health insurance – statutory or private – the social welfare institution provides health assistance. These include: ...
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Help for mentally ill persons and their relatives
People with mental illnesses and their relatives should receive help for prevention, treatment and independent living close to the community.
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Home nursing care benefits for people with statutory accident insurance
You will receive home nursing care from your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund to replace or shorten a stay in hospital.
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Housing assistance for people with statutory accident insurance
Have you suffered long-term damage to your health as a result of an accident at work, an accident on the way to work or an occupational disease, so that you need housing suitable for the disabled? Then you can receive housing assistance from the statutory accident insurance.
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Initial medical care in the event of an accident at work or occupational illness
Do you need medical treatment for the first time due to an accident at work or commuting accident or a recognized occupational disease? Then the statutory accident insurance will cover the costs.
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Integration assistance through integration support for children and young people with disabilities at schools
Do you have a school-age child with physical, mental or psychological disabilities who also needs individual support at school? Then your child can be accompanied by a so-called integration aid.
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Issue a severely disabled person's pass
If you have been diagnosed with a degree of disability of at least 50, you can apply for the issuance of a severely disabled person's pass.
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Landesdolmetscherzentrale für Gebärdensprache für hörbehinderte Menschen in Rheinland-Pfalz (LDZ)
The establishment and financing of a state centre in Rhineland-Palatinate for the provision of interpreters (Landesdolmetscherzentrale (LDZ)) for sign language is intended to...
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Medical and dental treatment for people with statutory accident insurance in the event of an accident at work or occupational illness
Do you need medical or dental treatment due to an accident at work or an occupational disease? Then the statutory accident insurance will cover the costs.
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Municipal Disability Officers
The municipal disability representatives are appointed by the municipalities. They represent the interests of people with disabilities and are an "intermediary" between the...
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National allowance for the blind
The state allowance for the blind is a voluntary benefit of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, which is granted irrespective of income and assets. Under certain conditions, it is...
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Participate in a program that prepares young people with disabilities for vocational training.
If you have a disability and have not yet found a training position after completing compulsory schooling, you can take part in a pre-vocational training program that takes your special needs into account.
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Psychotherapeutic services for people with statutory accident insurance
You can access psychotherapeutic services after an accident at work or occupational illness via the psychotherapist procedure of the statutory accident insurance.
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Reapplying for a statutory accident insurance pension due to aggravation after a settlement
You can receive a pension again from the statutory accident insurance after a settlement on application and under certain conditions.
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Reapplying for a widow's or widower's pension from statutory accident insurance after a settlement
Even if you have received a settlement in the course of remarriage, you can again receive a survivor's pension from statutory accident insurance on application and under certain conditions.
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Receive a pension from the statutory accident insurance
If your earning capacity is reduced after an accident at work or due to an occupational illness, you will receive a pension from the statutory accident insurance.
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Receive compensation for wear and tear on clothing and underwear
If your clothing wears out after an accident at work, a commuting accident or due to an occupational illness, for example because you wear a prosthesis, you will receive compensation under certain conditions.
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Receive household help and childcare costs under statutory accident insurance
So that you can continue to run your household or look after your children after an insured event, the statutory accident insurance will support you financially or in organizing help under certain conditions.
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Receive injury benefit from the statutory accident insurance
If you are unable to work due to an accident at work or an occupational illness, you will receive injury benefit.
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Receive reimbursement of social security contributions paid for the period during which a rehabilitation measure was carried out
If you, as a measure provider, carry out measures for participation in working life for people with disabilities, you must pay social security contributions. The employment agency or job center will reimburse your social security contributions on request.
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Receive transitional allowance from statutory accident insurance during occupational rehabilitation
If you are taking part in qualified measures for participation in working life (occupational rehabilitation) as a result of an accident at work or commuting accident or a recognized occupational disease and are not receiving a salary, you will receive a transitional allowance.
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Reimbursement of costs for treatment in hospitals and rehabilitation facilities for people with statutory accident insurance
If you have an accident or illness in connection with your work, the statutory accident insurance pays for medical treatment.
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Report benefits from statutory accident insurance and expenses for property damage in the event of emergency aid
If you have helped in a dangerous situation, you can claim benefits from the statutory accident insurance as in the case of an accident at work and compensation for material damage.
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Request arbitration proceedings on equal opportunities for people with disabilities
If you experience impairments or discrimination by federal authorities in your daily life, for example due to a lack of accessibility, you can contact the conciliation body. ...
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Severely disabled people at work, participation in measures to maintain and expand professional knowledge and skills
These are vocational training measures and participation in special training and adaptation measures which meet the needs of severely disabled people in terms of type, scope and...
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Severely disabled people at work, work assistance
Severely disabled people sometimes face a special problem in their everyday professional lives. Because of their disability, they are dependent on others to take over certain ...
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Severely disabled person's pass extension
Out of force - having a severely disabled person's ID card extended Since January 1, 2013, the severely disabled person's pass has been issued in the form of an identificatio...
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Submit notification of aids as part of rehabilitation for people with statutory accident insurance
Do you need medical aids such as a wheelchair or glasses as part of rehabilitation due to the consequences of an accident at work or an occupational illness? Then the statutory accident insurance will cover the costs.
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Submit proof of activity for subsidized supplementary independent participation advice (EUTB)
You must regularly prove that the subsidies for advisory services provided by the Supplementary Independent Participation Advisory Service (EUTB) are being used for the intended purpose by submitting the relevant activity reports.
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Submit travel and transportation costs for medical treatment in the event of an accident at work or occupational illness
In the event of a recognized occupational accident or illness, you can submit associated travel and transport costs for reimbursement.
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Support for returning to work for people with statutory accident insurance
If you have an accident at work or an occupational illness, the statutory accident insurance (DGUV) will use all appropriate means to enable you to return to work. Children and young people can also receive benefits in the event of an insured event.
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Supported employment: Applying for an individual company qualification for people with disabilities
If you need special help to integrate into working life and are currently unable to complete training or further education due to your disability, you can receive individual in-company training as part of Supported Employment.
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Transitional benefit due to occupational illness for people with statutory accident insurance
If you are no longer working due to an occupational disease, you can receive a transitional benefit from the statutory accident insurance.
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Vocational training of severely disabled young people and young adults particularly affected, benefits to employers (subsidies for fees)
Employers who hire particularly affected severely disabled people for vocational training without compulsory employment, i.e. with fewer than 20 employees, can receive subsidies...