Services for participation in professional life

In terms of the Statistics on the rehabilitation services of the German Annuity Insurance Federation:

Services for participation in professional life pursue the aim to permanently secure the continuance in professional life in cases of significant hazard for or reduction in earning capacity. The include particularly:

services for preservation or acquirement of a job, including services for advice and placing, training measures and mobility assistance,
services for vocational preparation (including special basic training due to an impairment),
services for vocational training (special qualification measures, further training/apprenticeships, integration measures),
foundation allowance (until 2006 transitional allowance),
services during the initial procedures ("Eingangsverfahren") and in the field of professional training in sheltered workshops,
benefits to employers,
assistance for motorvehicles.

Services for participation in professional life can be granted to persons, who can no longer practice their profession for health reasons. For application one of the following requirements from insurance law must be fulfilled:

fulfillment of the qualifying period of 15 years or
receipt of a pension because of diminution of ability to work.

Services for participation in profession life are also rendered,

if without the services pensions because of diminution of ability to work would be paid or
subsequent to services for medical rehabilitation of the pension fund if they are additionally necessary to achieve professional integration
if a claim to large pensions for widows or large pension for widowers because of diminution of ability to work exists.

Services for participation in professional life can also be executed in foreign countries close to the border, if they are necessary for the initiation or pursuance of an employment or self-employed occupation.

Selected information about Services for participation in professional life:

Tables:

Rehabilitation services SPI, expenditure ensuring participation

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