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

Funding from the placement budget is intended to help you find and take up a new job or company-based training. The employment agency can support you financially, for example by covering the costs of your

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

are covered.

Your advice and placement specialist will check and decide which costs can be covered at your request / application before the expected costs are incurred.

You can receive funding if you are

• are unemployed or at risk of unemployment, i.e. have already been made redundant, and wish to take up employment subject to compulsory insurance or
• are looking for in-company training.

You can also receive the grant if you are seeking or starting 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 is that you work at least 15 hours per week.

You cannot receive funding from the placement budget if

• the employer provides similar benefits,
• other public bodies are legally obliged to pay similar benefits or
• applications are not sent by yourself.

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

• You are at risk of unemployment or unemployed and want to take up employment subject to compulsory insurance.
• You are looking for in-company training.
• You must apply for support from the placement budget before the costs are incurred.

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

You can apply for funding from the placement budget in writing to your local employment agency.

• Arrange a consultation appointment with your counseling and placement specialist at the employment agency.
• 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 counseling and placement specialist.
• Complete the documents, enclose the necessary evidence or supporting documents and send the documents back to the employment agency.
• 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. You can tick the box on the application form if you do not wish to receive a decision, as long as your application is granted in full.
• The eligible costs will be transferred to the account you have specified.

If you are a customer of the Employment Agency and would like to apply for reimbursement of your travel costs to job interviews, you can also do this online:

• Arrange financial support from the placement budget with your counseling and placement specialist.
• Ask your advisor and placement specialist to activate you for the Federal Employment Agency's online platform "eService".
• Before the interview: Go to the "eService" online platform. Fill in the application form for reimbursement of travel expenses - this is also how you inform your employment agency about your interview.
• After the interview: Enter the costs incurred in your application and upload the relevant personalized proof (e.g. train tickets, employer confirmation) online.

There is no deadline. An application for funding and reimbursement from the placement budget must be submitted before any costs are incurred.

Responsible: Employment agency

• § Section 44 of the Third Book of the German Social Code (SGB III)

• Information on funding from the placement budget on the website of the Federal Employment Agency
• Fact sheet "Placement services and benefits" from the Federal Employment Agency

Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS)