Eingliederungshilfe für Erwachsene mit Behinderungen sowie für Kinder und Jugendliche mit körperlichen und geistigen Behinderungen beantragen

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.

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

Integration assistance benefits are divided into 4 benefit groups:

• Benefits for medical rehabilitation
• Benefits for participation in education
• Benefits for participation in working life
• Benefits for social participation

Among other things, the benefits can help you to cope with the tasks of daily life. This includes, for example

• Housing and housekeeping
• Financial matters
• Leisure activities
• Promotion of private contacts and hobbies
• Administrative matters (preparation and support), if not the responsibility of a legal guardian
• Mobility
• Parental assistance
• Support at school, university or for further training at work
• Support in the daycare center
• Provision of assistive devices, unless provided by the care insurance fund
• Promotion of communication
• Work

The benefits are individually tailored. They are subordinate to the benefits provided by other social benefit and rehabilitation providers (e.g. health insurance fund, pension insurance provider, employment agency, accident insurance provider). Care benefits (care insurance fund) and assistance with care (social welfare office) can be claimed in parallel if necessary.

The costs of the benefits are borne by the responsible integration assistance provider. Your income or assets may be taken into account under certain circumstances.

• You must submit an application to the competent authority. If you submit an informal application (e.g. by telephone or e-mail), the State Office for Social Affairs will send you an application form for integration assistance benefits.
• In addition to the detailed general application form for many benefits, you will also find short applications on the website of the State Office for Social Affairs (https://www.saarland.de/las/DE/service/downloads/downloads_node.html). There are also lists of the documents to be submitted (checklists).
• If documents are missing, the responsible authority will tell you which documents you need to submit.

You can receive integration assistance benefits if

• you have a disability or
• you are threatened by a disability and
• this significantly restricts you in your daily life.

You can also apply for integration assistance for persons who represent you in the context of legal care, guardianship, or as authorized representatives or custodians.

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• Contact the integration assistance provider responsible for you.
• They will advise you or you can submit an application straight away.
• In addition to the application form, you must submit further documents.
• The authority will carry out a participation procedure, an overall plan procedure or both procedures in order to determine your individual need for integration assistance services and possible further participation services. You can request that a person you trust be involved in the overall plan procedure.
• Once all the documents have been submitted, the competent body will check whether and which benefits you will receive based on the information you provide and the assessment of your needs. This also includes checking whether and to what extent your income and assets are taken into account.
• Once your application has been reviewed, you will receive a decision.

The processing time for your application depends on various factors. Please contact your responsible integration assistance provider, who will be able to give you more detailed information on the duration of the procedure. You can ask questions during the application process at the application and advice center of the State Office for Social Affairs.

However, the authority to which you have submitted your application must determine within 2 weeks of receiving the application whether it is responsible for your application. If the authority is not responsible, it will immediately forward your application to the competent authority. You will be informed of the forwarding.

This second authority (so-called second rehabilitation provider), to which your application has been forwarded, must decide on your application, regardless of whether it is actually responsible or not.

If the authority to which you originally submitted the application does not forward your application, it must determine your need for support as quickly as possible and issue a decision.

As a rule, the necessary benefit will be provided or financed retroactively from the time your application is received by the competent authority. This also applies if the benefit was initially wrongly refused.

• Appeal within one month of notification of the administrative act or decision
• Action before the social court within one month of notification of the objection notice

• Integration assistance for people with disabilities
• People who are significantly restricted by a disability or who are significantly threatened by a disability can receive support
• Integration assistance services are intended to improve the living situation of people with (impending) significant disabilities and enable them to participate fully in society. The scope of the benefits depends on the individual needs of the beneficiary.
• Integration assistance benefits are divided into 4 groups:
  • Benefits for medical rehabilitation
  • Benefits for participation in working life
  • Benefits for participation in education
  • Benefits for social participation
• The benefits are determined according to individual needs.
• The integration assistance providers and the advisory services of the Supplementary Independent Participation Counseling (EUTB ®) and the local care support points offer opportunities for advice
• Competent authority: State Office for Social Affairs