♿ Wegweiser Disability

15 topic pages on rights and benefits for people with disabilities, their relatives and everyone who advises them. Each page first explains the topic briefly and clearly – and below that in detail, with deadlines, legal bases and figures.

How this page works. At the top you can search all topics by keyword. Each topic page starts with the section In brief in plain language. Below that you will find the most important deadlines, typical mistakes and a collapsible specialist section "In depth" for advisory work, with legal bases and figures.

As of September 2026. The main basis is Book Nine of the Social Code (SGB IX) following the Federal Participation Act (Bundesteilhabegesetz). Where a figure could not be verified beyond doubt from official sources or changes every year or from state to state (e.g. individual euro amounts, state school law), this is expressly noted on the relevant page instead of guessed. The information does not replace legal advice.

Frequently searched

🪪 Applying for a severe disability ID ⚖️ Degree of disability: assessment and objection 🧩 Integration assistance: participation benefits at a glance 🎯 Budget for Work 🛡️ Protection against dismissal for severely disabled people 🩺 Care level in cases of disability 🎫 Compensation for disadvantages in everyday life 📞 Advice and points of contact

All topic areas

🧭Overview and rightsGetting started: your right to participation at a glance.1 topic 🪪ID card and assessmentApplying for a severe disability ID, degree of disability, objection.2 topics 🎫Compensation for disadvantages in everyday lifeTax, vehicle tax, broadcasting contribution, extra leave, parking.1 topic 🤝Participation benefitsIntegration assistance and personal budget.2 topics 💼Work and employmentBudget for Work, sheltered workshop, protection against dismissal.3 topics 🏠Housing and mobilityBarrier-free conversion, public transport and free travel.2 topics 🩺Care and pensionCare level and reduced earning capacity pension in cases of disability.2 topics 🎓EducationSchool and inclusion.1 topic 📞Advice and points of contactWho helps with which concern.1 topic

🧭 Overview and rights

Getting started: your right to participation at a glance.

🧭Rights of people with disabilities at a glanceWhat Book Nine of the Social Code (SGB IX) regulates for you: rehabilitation providers, application procedure and the principle "rehabilitation before pension and care".

🪪 ID card and assessment

Applying for a severe disability ID, degree of disability, objection.

🪪Applying for a severe disability IDFrom a GdB of 50 you count as severely disabled. How to apply to the Versorgungsamt and what the ID does. ⚖️Degree of disability: assessment and objectionHow the GdB is assessed under the Versorgungsmedizin-Verordnung – and how to challenge a decision that is too low.

🎫 Compensation for disadvantages in everyday life

Tax, vehicle tax, broadcasting contribution, extra leave, parking.

🎫Compensation for disadvantages in everyday lifeTax allowance, vehicle tax, broadcasting contribution, extra leave and parking permit: what disability markers and GdB actually bring in everyday life.

🤝 Participation benefits

Integration assistance and personal budget.

🧩Integration assistance: participation benefits at a glanceAssistance, housing, participation in education and working life: what integration assistance (Eingliederungshilfe) provides since the Federal Participation Act. 💳Personal budgetMoney instead of benefits in kind: with the personal budget (Persönliches Budget) you organise your support yourself and hire your helpers independently.

💼 Work and employment

Budget for Work, sheltered workshop, protection against dismissal.

🎯Budget for WorkThe path from the workshop to the general labour market: a permanent wage cost subsidy to the employer instead of a workshop place. 🛠️Work and sheltered workshops for people with disabilities (WfbM)Entitlement to admission, pay and work promotion allowance in the workshop – and employers' duty to employ people with severe disabilities. 🛡️Protection against dismissal for severely disabled peopleBefore any dismissal by the employer, the Integrationsamt must give its consent. How the procedure works, and what it means for your own deadline to sue.

🏠 Housing and mobility

Barrier-free conversion, public transport and free travel.

🔧Barrier-free housing and conversionCare insurance subsidy for bathroom conversion, housing adaptation as a participation benefit and what funding programmes can offer. 🚌Mobility and public transportFree travel with the Wertmarke, who gets it free of charge – and what the marker aG means for the parking permit.

🩺 Care and pension

Care level and reduced earning capacity pension in cases of disability.

🩺Care level in cases of disabilityNeed for care and disability are two different assessment procedures – how the assessment works and how to lodge an objection. 💰Pension and reduced earning capacity in cases of disabilityReduced earning capacity pension under § 43 SGB VI and the early old-age pension for severely disabled people: requirements, additional earnings and typical pitfalls.

🎓 Education

School and inclusion.

🎓School and inclusionParents' right to choose between special and mainstream school, special educational needs and school assistance – heavily dependent on the federal state.

📞 Advice and points of contact

Who helps with which concern.

📞Advice and points of contactEUTB, Integrationsamt, Versorgungsamt and social associations: who is responsible for what when you are stuck?

For reference

📕Keyword indexAll terms from A to Z, with links to the matching topic pages. 📜Sources and methodWhere the information comes from and what is expressly uncertain. 🏠Other target groupsTo the overview of all Wegweiser portals.

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