Detailed description
For you as parents who rely on support services, it is often not easy to offer your children the same opportunities in their free time or at school as children from families with higher incomes. However, children and young people in need also have the right to take part in day trips and shared lunches at school and daycare, and to participate in music, sports and games in clubs and groups.
This is where the education and participation benefits of the so-called education package can help you. You can apply for funding from the responsible authority. The funding covers the following areas:
Up to a maximum of 18 years of age:
- Participation in social and cultural life, for example in a sports club or music school, is supported with up to EUR 15.00 per month.
Up to a maximum of 25 years of age:
- The provision of personal school supplies is subsidized with EUR 156.00 per year (EUR 104.00 for the first and EUR 52.00 for the second school semester).
- Costs will be covered for additional appropriate learning support to the extent that it is necessary to achieve the learning objectives set out in school law.
- For one-day trips from schools, day care centers and child day care, the actual costs will be reimbursed.
- For trips lasting several days from day care centers and child day care facilities as well as for class trips within the framework of school law, the actual costs will be covered.
- Subsidies are paid for communal lunches for schoolchildren (if under school responsibility) and for children in day care centers and child day care. The personal contribution is EUR 1.00 per day.
- The actual costs required for transport to the nearest school for the chosen course of study (student monthly tickets) will be covered (own contribution if the ticket can also be used for other purposes than for student transport).