Job center team.arbeit.hamburg

apply for an entry fee

Prerequisites

• You receive citizen's allowance and intend to take up new employment.
  • Unemployment is not a prerequisite.
  • Your new employment can be in the form of self-employment or employment.
• Your new self-employment or your new employment is suitable for you to overcome your need for assistance in the future and no longer require citizen's allowance or other benefits.
• The entry-level allowance is necessary for your integration into the general labor market.
• Your employment comprises at least 15 hours per week.
• Additional requirements for self-employment/starting a business: The responsible body finds you personally suitable for running a self-employed business and considers your project to be economically viable.

Documents required

For self-employment/start-up:

• application for funding
• CV, including any necessary qualifications
• meaningful description of the start-up project to explain the business idea (business concept/business plan)
• capital requirements and financing plan
• Sales and profitability forecast (expected sales and costs) for the next 3 years
• if necessary, opinion from an external third party or an expert body on the viability of your company
  • Expert bodies are: chambers, professional associations, credit institutions, start-up initiatives
• Proof that you are self-employed, for example through your business registration, notification to the tax office or confirmation of the change of a secondary business to a main business
• if necessary, further evidence, for example of your
  • accident insurance or
  • business liability or
  • registration in the trade register

For employment subject to social insurance contributions:

• application for funding
• copy of your employment contract

Please note

Deadlines

Submit the application before you actually start working. You must not have started working yet when you apply for start-up allowance. This applies both to starting work subject to social insurance contributions and to your self-employment. You can receive start-up allowance for a maximum of 24 months.

Procedure

• You contact the responsible department and arrange an appointment.
• The responsible body will record your data and check whether you meet the funding requirements.
• You submit an application and attach any necessary documents.
  • If you are employed and are subject to social insurance contributions, you can also submit your application online.
• The competent authority makes a discretionary decision.
• You will receive a notification by post or online confirming the approval or rejection of your application.
• If your application is approved, the responsible authority will transfer the amount to your account every month in advance.

Processing time

Average 4 weeks.

Fees

None

Legal remedies

• contradiction


• administrative lawsuit

Legal basis

Section 16b of the Third Book of the Social Code (SGB III)

http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/sgb_2/__16b.html


Section 16 of the Third Book of the Social Code (SGB III)

http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/sgb_2/__16.html