In order to receive the vocational training grant, you and your vocational training must be eligible.

Eligible individuals:

• you do not live with your parents during the training and the training company is too far away from your parents' home, or you
  • are at least 18 years old or
  • are or were married or
  • have at least one child living with you.
• Even if you are not German, you are generally entitled to a vocational training allowance, unless
  • You have a residence permit in accordance with the Asylum Act.
  • You are tolerated and have been staying in Germany for less than 15 months without interruption on a permitted, approved or tolerated basis.
• You cannot raise the necessary funds to cover the following costs:
  • Costs of living
  • Travel costs between accommodation and training center or vocational school
  • Family trips home
  • Work clothes
  • Childcare costs

Eligible vocational training:

• It is your first vocational training or
• if it is not your first vocational training: you cannot be permanently integrated into a profession in any other way.
• You are undergoing vocational training.
  • that is recognized under the Vocational Training Act, the Crafts Code or the Maritime Labour Act
  • or vocational training in accordance with Part 2 of the Nursing Professions Act.
• You enter into a vocational training contract.

If you have a disability, you can also get vocational training allowance if

• You are undergoing vocational training that deviates from the training regulations for state-recognized training occupations or in special forms for people with disabilities,
• you have to extend your training
• you have to repeat all or part of your training due to your disability and permanent participation in working life would otherwise not be possible, or
• you live in the household of your parents or one of your parents.

Additional prerequisite for vocational preparation training measures:

• The pre-vocational training measure is carried out on behalf of the employment agency.

An apprenticeship or pre-vocational training measure abroad is eligible for funding as follows:

• In the case of partial training abroad, if
  • the part of the training abroad does not last longer than 1 year and
  • the part of the training abroad appears to be appropriate with regard to the total duration of the training
• in the case of complete training abroad,
  • if the training abroad is particularly conducive to the applicant's professional goal and
  • it is officially confirmed that the training abroad is equivalent to in-company training in Germany
• in the case of part of the preparatory vocational training abroad, if
  • the part abroad does not exceed half of the planned funding period, and
  • the part abroad appears to be appropriate with regard to the total duration of the measure.

After the premature dissolution of a training relationship (training termination), funding may be provided again if there was a justified reason for the dissolution.