Apply for a placement budget

If you are looking for or taking up a new job or training, you can have your expenses (e.g. travel costs and costs for certificates) reimbursed. This also applies to expenses that you incur within the first 6 months of starting work.

If you receive citizen's allowance, the support from the placement budget is intended to help you find and take up a new job or training. The local job center can support you financially by covering the following costs, for example:

• Application costs,
• Travel costs to job interviews,
• Costs for necessary documents (e.g. certified copies, translations) or
• relocation costs (if you have to move for the new job).

You must submit your application before you incur the expected costs.

You can receive funding if you receive or have received basic social security benefits, are unemployed or threatened with unemployment and

a) wish to take up employment or training subject to compulsory insurance within the Federal Republic of Germany or

b) take up employment subject to compulsory insurance in a member state of the European Union (EU), a signatory state to the Agreement on the European Economic Area or in Switzerland. The prerequisite for this is that you work at least 15 hours per week.

You cannot receive support from the placement budget if

• the employer provides similar benefits or
• other public bodies are legally obliged to pay similar benefits.

Please note that you have no legal entitlement to funding from the placement budget. Your local job center will decide whether and to what extent you will receive financial support. You must also provide proof of your expenses.

Please contact the responsible job center.

Depending on the support you have applied for, you will need to submit the relevant supporting documents. Your contact person will tell you which documents must be enclosed with the application.

Forms available: Yes
Written form required: No
Informal application possible: Yes
Personal appearance necessary: No

• You receive citizen's allowance and are at risk of unemployment or unemployed and want to take up employment or training subject to compulsory insurance.
• You must apply for support from the placement budget before the costs are incurred.
• The employment you are seeking in another EU country involves at least 15 hours per week.

Contradiction

• In principle, you can apply for funding from the placement budget at your local job center.
• Arrange a consultation appointment with your contact person at the job center.
• They will then discuss with you whether funding from the placement budget is possible and what support services can be offered.
• You will receive the relevant application documents from your contact person.
• Fill out the documents, attach the necessary evidence or supporting documents and send the documents back to your job center.
• You also have the option of submitting the application online. To do this, complete the online application and upload the necessary supporting documents.
• Please note that you must apply for funding and reimbursement from the placement budget before you incur any costs.
• You will receive written notification of whether the costs will be covered.

The reimbursable costs will be transferred to the account you have specified.

You must apply for funding from the placement budget at your local job center before the costs are incurred.

There are no costs.