Measures for activation and vocational integration

To support your vocational (re-)start, there are various measures organised in different ways: with a provider, in a company or via private job placement. More about the measures for vocational integration

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Placement budget

The start into vocational life can be supported by payments from the placement budget. Individually agreed supports are paid from this budget. They can be travelling expenses for job interviews, expenditure for application documents or also costs of working clothes or working equipment.

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Starting money

Starting money can be paid if unemployed people start employment subject to social insurance with at least 15 hours of work per week or wish to go freelance and exercise their activity on a full-time basis. Whether starting money is paid and, if so, to what amount depends on whether the new activity prospectively ends the requirement for help in the sense of Volume 2 of the German Social Code and whether the support is necessary for integration into the general labour market.

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Support of vocational further training

Job-seekers can considerably improve their chances on the labour market by participating in a further training measure. Such training measures can be supported financially. If the preconditions have been fulfilled, the Jobcenter issues a training voucher, with which the costs of the further training are assumed. Both the measure and also the provider must have been registered for support. More about support of vocational further training

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