Procedure descriptions
Apply for municipal integration services
If you receive citizen's allowance, you can claim so-called municipal integration benefits. These are designed to help you get back to work.
Your local job centre can support you with
- Debt counselling,
- psychosocial counselling or
- Addiction counselling.
Debt counselling will help you to sort out your financial situation and pay off your debts in order to improve the conditions for your professional reintegration.
Psychosocial counselling is available if you need support with mental health problems or crisis situations so that you can return to work.
Addiction counselling offers you support regardless of the type or severity of your addiction. You will be counselled about
- Risks of addiction,
- Addictive substances or
- Addiction.
You can also be supported in finding further help.
If you are unable to work due to caring for relatives, the job centre can support you, for example with
- caring for relatives at home, or
- the care of
- underage children or
- Children with disabilities
If you are looking after children or caring for relatives at home, your job centre can organise support from a third party so that you can take up gainful employment.
Please note that you must apply for benefits from the job centre before the costs for childcare or home care for relatives are incurred. It is not possible to apply retrospectively.
Please note that you have no legal entitlement to municipal integration benefits. Your local job centre will decide whether and to what extent you will receive support.
Details
Prerequisite
- You must receive a citizen's allowance.
- You need either
- Debt counselling,
- psychosocial counselling or
- Addiction counselling
- or demonstrable support with
- the care of underage children,
- Children with disabilities or
- in the home care of relatives.
- You need this municipal benefit to be able to return to work.
Procedure
If you want to apply for municipal integration benefits in person:
- Arrange a consultation appointment with your contact person at the job centre
- Discuss whether municipal integration benefits are possible and what support services can be offered to you.
- If municipal integration services are possible, your contact person will discuss the next steps with you.
- The contact person will provide you with the relevant documents.
- If necessary, complete the documents. Enclose the necessary evidence or receipts and send the documents back to your responsible job centre.
- The eligible costs will be transferred to the account you have specified.
Deadlines
You can only claim the benefits once you have received a decision confirming that the costs will be covered.
You can lodge an appeal against a decision within one month.
Required documents
Evidence may be required. The responsible office can inform you accordingly.
Costs
none
Miscellaneous
Further information can be found on the website of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the Social Platform.
Legal basis
Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB) Zweites Buch (II) - Bürgergeld, Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende:
- § 16a Kommunale Eingliederungsleistungen
Release note
Machine generated, based on the German release by: Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS) und Wirtschaftsministerium Baden-Württemberg, 01.07.2025
Contact
Bürger- und Standesamt (Bürgeramt)
eMail buergeramt@heidenheim.de
Telefon (0 73 21) 3 27-33 42
Fax (0 73 21) 3 23-33 32