Reimbursement of fare losses in local transport

Please contact the Mainz-Bingen district administration.

Note : The reimbursement of fare losses for free local transport for companies that are predominantly owned by the federal government or a company in which the federal government has a majority shareholding (including transport associations) must be applied for from the Federal Office of Administration.

The prerequisite for reimbursement is that during the reimbursement period (one calendar year in each case), the entrepreneur has provided free transportation of severely disabled persons on public transport, including their accompanying persons, their hand luggage, their accompanying medical wheelchairs, their other orthopaedic aids and their guide dogs.

The application must be accompanied by the following documents

• all evidence justifying the percentage rate on which the application is based
• Certificate from a sworn auditor, an engineering firm or a comparable institute with demonstrably relevant expertise confirming that both the planning of the traffic count and the calculation of the percentage rate were carried out in correct application of the administrative regulation "Reimbursement of fare losses in local transport"
• Certificate from a sworn auditor on the fare revenue

The application must be submitted within three years of the end of the accounting year (cut-off period).

• § Section 231 of the Ninth Book of the German Social Code (SGB IX)
• § Section 228 of the Ninth Book of the German Social Code (SGB IX)
• Administrative regulation Reimbursement of fare losses on local transport in accordance with Section 62 of the Severely Disabled Persons Act

Applications can be obtained from the Mainz-Bingen district administration. The application for reimbursement of fare losses on local public transport must be submitted in triplicate.

10.05.2019