Social Code XII § 53 regulates the entitlement of disabled people or people at risk of disability to integration assistance. Integration assistance for disabled people is a benefit of social assistance (Social Code XII), which pursues the goal of integrating the disabled person into society and enabling him to lead a largely independent life. Benefits of integration assistance are:

• Services for medical rehabilitation
• Services for participation in working life
• Services in recognized workshops for disabled people
• Benefits for participation in life in the community
• Assistance for an appropriate school education
• Assistance for school education for an appropriate occupation, including attendance at a college or university
• Assistance for training for another appropriate occupation

Follow-up assistance to ensure the effectiveness of medical and medically prescribed measures and to ensure the disabled person's participation in working life.

• According to Section 90 of the Ninth Book of the Social Code IX (SGB IX), the task of integration assistance is to enable persons entitled to benefits to lead an individual life in accordance with human dignity and to promote full, effective and equal participation in life in society. The benefit is intended to enable them to plan and lead their lives in as self-determined and independent a manner as possible.
• Persons who are substantially limited in their ability to participate in society as a result of a disability within the meaning of Section 2 (1) sentence 1 of Book IX of the Social Code, or who are threatened by such a substantial disability, receive integration assistance if and as long as there is a prospect that the task of integration assistance can be fulfilled.
• Integration assistance includes benefits for medical rehabilitation, for participation in working life, for participation in education and for social participation.
• The benefits of integration assistance are determined by the specifics of the individual case, in particular the nature of the need, the personal circumstances, the social space and their own strength and resources.

Advice and support for the application of a housing adaptation measure (WAM)

WAM is an instrument to create living space for people with disabilities/ people in need of care, which takes into account their individual needs if their housing requirements cannot be met in any other way.

WAM are all measures of a structural and non-structural nature which make it easier for the handicapped person/person in need of care or which make it possible for him/her to lead a life largely independent of outside help or which facilitate his/her care, e.g. by relatives or other persons.

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Blind people can apply for blind assistance to compensate for the additional expenses caused by blindness.

Assistance for people with disabilities is financed by the Bavarian districts - regardless of whether it is outpatient, day-care or inpatient assistance and regardless of whether the disability is physical, mental or emotional.

The districts support people with a mental illness with a wide range of outpatient services and provide outpatient services for people with addictive disorders.

The districts support people with mental illness with a wide range of inpatient and day-care services and provide benefits for people with addiction in inpatient and day-care facilities.

In Bavaria, blind or severely visually impaired people receive a monthly allowance for the blind to compensate for the additional expenses caused by these disabilities.