Bundesportal | Inclusive companies; application for funding

Purpose

The funding supports inclusive businesses in setting up, expanding, modernizing and equipping, including business consulting and special expenses in accordance with § 217 SGB IX.

Object

Inclusion companies offer severely disabled persons and persons with equivalent status whose participation in other employment on the general labor market encounters particular difficulties due to the nature and severity of their disability or other circumstances, diverse and adequate employment opportunities.

The aim is to create permanent jobs subject to social insurance contributions for people with severe disabilities or equivalent status as well as the cooperation and joint employment of people with and without disabilities. In Bavaria, inclusive companies are predominantly small or medium-sized companies from various sectors of the economy.

Inclusion companies differ from workshops for people with disabilities in that training and employment contracts are concluded with the persons concerned, with all the resulting rights and obligations under labor law, collective bargaining law and social law, and thus an employment relationship exists on the general labor market.

The Inclusion Office at the Bavarian Centre for Family and Social Affairs (ZBFS) can support the establishment, expansion, modernization and equipping of an inclusive business, including business consulting and special expenses, with funds from the equalization levy in accordance with SGB IX. Funding in Bavaria is provided in accordance with the "Guidelines for the funding of integration projects".

In addition, the needs of individual employees with severe disabilities can also be taken into account as part of individual case-related support in working life. Integration grants from the employment agencies in accordance with the Third Book of the German Social Code are also eligible.

Eligible costs

In accordance with Section 217 (1) SGB IX, inclusive companies can receive funding from the equalization levy for setting up, expanding, modernizing and equipping, including business consulting, as well as a wage cost subsidy for special expenses.

Type and amount

The funding is granted as a subsidy.
The type of grant is a project grant.

As part of the investment costs, up to EUR 75,000 can be paid per job created or secured for the severely disabled employees (target group employees). The wage cost subsidy for running costs is based on the respective requirements.

Required document/s
- Offers, cost estimates
- Invoices (only possible if an early start has been granted)
- Notification(s) of benefits from other cost units
- Business plan, expansion concept, modernization concept
- Investment and procurement plan
- Financing plan, proof of financing
- Business management report
- Articles of association/ partnership agreement
- Extract from the commercial register
- Site plan
- Construction and/or room program: additionally required for construction measures
- Certificate of disability or equal opportunities certificate: additionally required for construction projects

Preconditions

Funding can be applied for for inclusive companies. The company for which the benefit is applied for must

be a legally and economically independent company, in-house operation or department on the general labor market, and
employ at least 30 percent of severely disabled people whose participation in other employment on the general labor market is likely to be particularly difficult due to the nature or severity of their disability or other circumstances, despite exhausting all support options and the use of integration services (so-called target group employees).

As a rule, the proportion of severely disabled people should not exceed 50 percent.

Procedure

The application must be submitted in writing or electronically to the locally responsible regional office of the Zentrum Bayern Familie und Soziales (ZBFS-Inklusionsamt).

In order to check responsibility, the ZBFS Inclusion Office may also contact rehabilitation providers, such as the Employment Agency or the German Pension Insurance, in the case of benefits for special expenses.

Other bodies outside the ZBFS, e.g. the specialist integration service, may also be commissioned to prepare a statement or expert opinion.

For your planning purposes, we would like to point out that our administrative procedure for setting up an inclusive company may take some time. Please allow for this when submitting your application.

Early start of measures: possible after approval

Deadlines

There are no fixed deadlines for this funding.

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