Educational package

The education and participation package enables children in need to participate better in social and cultural life in the community.

Children and young people up to the age of 25 who are unable to cover their education and participation needs from their own income and assets or their family's own income and assets and who are therefore entitled to

• basic security benefits for jobseekers or
• social assistance
• benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act

or whose families

• child supplement or
• housing benefit

receive housing benefit.

Upper age limit for benefits for participation in culture, sport and leisure: 18 years.