Apply for support for the training and employment of severely disabled people

In individual cases, the employment of severely disabled people can result in personnel and/or financial costs for the employer that significantly exceed the usual level in the company. The Integration Office can grant the employer financial resources from the equalization levy to (partially) cover these special expenses as part of the accompanying assistance in working life. There are two main types of extraordinary expenses:

• Personal support (also known as special care expenses), i.e. extraordinary expenses in the form of additional personnel costs of other employees, occasionally also external caregivers. This refers to support and care services for the severely disabled person at work. Examples include a reader for blind people, a company contact person for deaf or mentally disabled people, but also the constant assistance required from work colleagues in carrying out work as well as longer or recurring instructions at the workplace due to a disability, for example by the foreman for a mentally disabled person.

• Reduced performance/compensation for reduced performance, i.e. the pro rata wage costs of severely disabled persons whose work performance is significantly below the average of comparable employees in the company for disability-related reasons.