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In principle, every rehabilitation agency is obliged to provide advice to disabled people.

Furthermore, joint local service centers of the rehabilitation providers offer advice and support to disabled persons and persons at risk of disability, their confidants and guardians.

In addition, the voluntary welfare organizations provide counseling services for people with disabilities and their relatives.

The district offices and independent cities are responsible for matters relating to the severely disabled. They perform the following tasks, among others:

• Determining disabilities in accordance with the law on severely disabled persons (SGB IX) including compensation for disadvantages
• Issuing and renewal of severely handicapped ID cards
• Determining the prerequisites for free transportation of severely disabled persons in public transport and/or exemption/reduction from motor vehicle tax and issuing the corresponding supplementary sheets
• Determination of the requirements for the granting of parking facilities for severely disabled persons

Blind or severely visually impaired people who have their usual place of residence in Bremen are entitled to financial support to compensate for disability-related disadvantages or additional needs. The state care allowance is paid as a monthly allowance and is independent of income and assets:

• The state care allowance is currently 450.09 euros per month.
• Children under the age of 18 are entitled to a state care allowance of currently 225.04 euros per month from the age of one.
• Blind and severely disabled persons who live in an institution and for whom the costs of their stay are borne in whole or in part by public funds receive 50 per cent of the state care allowance. Self-payers who live in an institution are not entitled to state care allowance. In this case, the benefits paid by the nursing care insurance fund are taken into account in full.
• Long-term care insurance benefits are offset in full against the state long-term care allowance. As a result, the entitlement to the state nursing care allowance may be reduced or may not apply at all.
• The income- and asset-dependent care and blind assistance benefits in accordance with SGB XII can also be claimed if necessary. The state care allowance is credited in full or in part.

Severely disabled persons who have a degree of disability (GdB) of at least 50 and have recognised a significant walking disability (G), an extraordinary walking disability (aG), helplessness (H), blindness (Bl) and/or deafness (Gl) as a signhnliche Gehbehinderung (aG), helplessness (H), blindness (Bl) and / or deafness (Gl), can get a supplementary sheet with token for free transportation in public transport. The mark "B" can be applied for in the initial or new application.

Before a severely disabled person's card can be issued, the degree of disability must be determined. To obtain a severe disability card, a degree of disability of 50 or higher must be determined.

The determination establishes the overall impact of one or more disabilities.

The degree of disability and other health characteristics (marks) are then entered on the severely disabled person's ID card.

The ID card with the respective characteristic (characteristic sign) is a prerequisite for claiming disadvantage compensation, such as free travel on local public transport.

Severely disabled persons with disabilities of the following characteristics

• aG (exceptionally disabled) or
• Bl (blind)

can apply for parking permits, which entitle them to park on separately marked parking spaces, provided that no other parking possibility exists within a reasonable distance.

The following parking spaces are included:

• Parking spaces with additional sign "Wheelchair symbol" (so-called disabled parking spaces),
• limited stopping restriction (up to three hours, the arrival time must result from the setting on a parking disc),
• No stopping in zones (beyond the permitted parking time),
• time-limited parking spaces (beyond the permitted time),
• Pedestrian areas where loading and unloading is permitted for certain times (during loading times),
• in parking spaces for residents (up to three hours),
• at places with parking meters and parking ticket machines without charge and time limit,
• in designated traffic-calmed areas outside the designated areas without obstructing through traffic

Blind and severely visually impaired people receive blindness benefits regardless of the question of need. A person is blind if he or she is completely blind. Blind persons are also persons whose visual acuity is not more than 1/50 in either eye and also in both eyes, as well as persons with other visual impairments of the same degree of severity. A person who is not blind and whose visual acuity is not more than 1/20 in either eye and in both eyes, or who has such severe visual impairments that they result in a degree of disability of 100 according to the Social Code IX, is considered to be severely visually impaired. Temporary visual disturbances are not to be taken into account. A period of up to six months is considered temporary.

Since 01.04.2004, the full blind person's allowance amounts to 85 per cent of the blind person's assistance according to the Social Code XII (651 € monthly, status: 01.07.2021). Since 01.01.2013, deaf-blind people receive a doubled blindness allowance (1,302 € monthly, as of 01.07.2021).

On 01.01.2018, the visually impaired allowance was introduced. Highly visually impaired people receive a monthly amount of €195.30 (as of 01/07/2021), and highly visually impaired people who are also deaf receive €390.60 per month (as of 01/07/2021).

The amounts are regularly adjusted according to the assistance for the blind provided by social welfare.

In the case of accommodation in a home or similar institution, the blind allowance is reduced to a certain extent if the accommodation costs are covered in whole or in part by public funds. The blind allowance is then reduced by this support amount, but by no more than half.

Benefits from long-term care insurance as well as benefits paid for additional expenses due to blindness are to be credited against the blind person's allowance to a certain extent.

Blind person assistance can be paid within the scope of the social welfare or the war victim welfare. The blind person assistance in the context of the social welfare or the war victim welfare is granted starting from 01.07.2020 blind persons after completion of the 18. year of life at a value of 765,43 €, the blind persons under 18 years at a value of 383,37 €. The amount changes in each case by the percentage by which the current pension value in the statutory pension insurance changes. The income limit of § 85 Social Security Code XII applies (basic amount in the amount of twice the standard needs level 1 (see subsistence, assistance to) + 70 v. H. of the standard needs level 1 for other family members + costs of accommodation to an appropriate extent). A more favorable income limit applies in war victims' welfare. In the context of the integration assistance for humans with handicap(handicapped humans, assistance for ) also the costs of a guide dog and for other aids can be carried, if no other cost unit (e.g. legal health insurance) is responsible.

The Bavarian Ordinance on the Accessibility of Documents for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Administrative Procedures (BayDokZugV), which came into force on 01.09.2006, regulates the accessibility of documents for blind, blind and visually impaired people in administrative procedures in a form that they can perceive. The entitled persons do not incur any separate costs as a result.

See Accessibility for people with visual impairments in administrative procedures.

Bavarian Law on Allowances for the Blind; Section 72 of the Social Code XII; Bavarian Ordinance on Making Documents Accessible for Blind, Blind and Visually Impaired Persons in Administrative Procedures (BayDokZugV)

Bavarian Family and Social Welfare Center - Pension Office, statutory health insurance funds, social welfare administrations and war victims' welfare offices at the districts, counties and independent cities, Bavarian Family and Social Welfare Center - Main Welfare Office

Further information on the regulations can be found on the homepage of the Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs.

www.stmas.bayern.de/inklusion/gleichstellungsgesetz

Basic income support in old age and in the event of reduced earning capacity in accordance with Chapter IV of the Social Code XII is always paid - irrespective of prior pension insurance contributions - if the pension and other income and assets are not sufficient to cover living expenses. Elderly persons and persons with a permanent reduction in earning capacity who are habitually resident in Germany are entitled to basic benefits for old age and reduced earning capacity. Persons who have already reached the relevant age limit in the statutory pension insurance scheme (currently between 65 and 67 years) are entitled to benefits on account of old age. In addition, persons who have already reached the age of 18 but have not yet reached the age limit receive basic security benefits if they are permanently fully incapacitated for work or if they are undergoing the entry procedure or the vocational training area in a workshop for disabled persons or are in a training relationship for which they receive a budget for training.

A permanent full reduction in earning capacity is always present if the capacity is reduced due to illness or disability, so that one is unable to be gainfully employed for at least 3 hours a day under the usual conditions of the general labor market for an unforeseeable period of time(reduced earning capacity pension).

The benefit is equivalent in amount to the assistance for subsistence(Lebensunterhalt, Hilfe zum) in social assistance. Therefore, own income and assets are taken into account as in social assistance. Dependent children or parents with an annual income of up to and including €100,000 each do not have to pay if their dependents claim basic welfare benefits. An obligation to reimburse costs on the part of heirs is also waived.

In addition, the presumption under social welfare law that a person living in a household with relatives or in-laws receives subsistence benefits from these persons does not apply to basic benefits. In particular, disabled persons with a permanent full reduction in earning capacity, who often live with their parents or other relatives, receive independent material security for their livelihood through basic security benefits.

In addition, unlike assistance for subsistence, the benefits of basic security in old age and in the event of reduced earning capacity must be applied for and are regularly granted for one year.

Social Code XII

Social welfare administrations at the counties and independent cities, social welfare administrations of the districts in the case of inpatient care as well as care in a residential community or in assisted living with entitlement to integration assistance benefits according to SGB IX

Some municipalities offer citizens, a special pass to take advantage of discounts. You can apply for a family or social pass if it is offered.

You would like to discharge wastewater into a private wastewater system and be exempted from the permit requirement? Then an application for exemption from the permit requirement must be submitted to the competent authority of the respective federal state.