As of: January 30, 2024, 5:05 a.m
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More money for carers and increased allowances – important changes to the law for people with disabilities and carers will come into force from January 2024.
Frankfurt – It’s not just the minimum wage, working time recording and citizens’ benefit that will be affected by changes to the law in 2024.
Laws that particularly affect people with disabilities and their carers have also been revised.
There are changes in relation to care law, integration assistance, livelihood security, care services, labor law, health benefits and social compensation, as Lebenshilfe
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.
These new regulations have been in force since January 1st.
Inflation compensation and increased allowances for people with disabilities and carers
Starting this year, caregivers can look forward to more money.
From the beginning of 2024 to the end of 2025, professional carers and carers' associations will receive a special payment to compensate for inflation of 7.50 euros per carer.
Volunteer supervisors also receive 24 euros in addition to the flat rate for each “month in which legal assistance is provided on at least one day”.
Improved laws for people with disabilities © Mark Hunt/Imago
In 2024, the asset allowance, i.e. the maximum amount you can have in order to continue to be entitled to social benefits, will increase from 61,110 euros to 63,630 euros for asset-dependent integration assistance benefits.
The income allowance was also increased.
In addition, motor vehicles are no longer counted as assets.
These changes will make more people eligible for benefits.
Increase in standard rates and amounts for care
The standard rates, i.e. the guidelines for how high social benefits someone receives, have been increased for the respective standard levels of need for subsistence benefits.
This applies to basic security in old age and in cases of reduced earning capacity as well as assistance with living expenses.
Standard requirement level 1 |
563 euros |
|---|---|
Standard requirement level 2 |
506 euros |
Standard requirement level 3 |
451 euros |
Standard requirement level 4 |
471 euros |
Standard requirement level 5 |
390 euros |
Standard requirement level 6 |
357 euros |
The additional need for communal lunches, the preparation of hot water and the provision of personal school supplies has increased.
There are also some changes to the regulation of income that affect different groups.
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These laws will change for people with disabilities in 2024 – read the overview
Since January, the amounts for care benefits in kind and care allowances have also been increased.
Care support allowance has also been improved.
Care benefit in kind |
Care allowance |
|---|---|
Care level 1: - |
Care level 1: - |
Care level 2: Up to €761 |
Care level 2: €332 |
Care level 3: Up to €1,432 |
Care level 3: €573 |
Care level 4: Up to €1,778 |
Care level 4: €765 |
Care level 5: Up to €2,200 |
Care level 5: €947 |
Adaptation of labor and health law for people with disabilities and carers
Access to the general labor market should also be improved.
Employers must pay a monthly compensation levy for compulsory jobs for people with disabilities that are not filled.
If the job is given to a person with a severe disability who moves directly from a workshop for people with disabilities to the new job, the employment is credited for two compulsory jobs.
The entitlement to sick pay has increased in several cases, for example in relation to the duration of children's illness or when children are hospitalized.
Caring relatives who take advantage of a rehabilitation measure are entitled to take the person they are caring for with them and care for them.
Social compensation for consequences for which the state is responsible
Social compensation law was also restructured.
This applies, for example, to people who were victims of accidents or acts of violence caused by the state and their survivors.
People who have suffered damage to their health as a result of an event for which the state community is responsible are supported with social compensation to cope with the consequences.
Those affected should be helped to get back to their everyday lives through treatment, care and payments.
The general additional contribution from health insurance companies has risen from 1.6 to 1.7 percent.
This means that insured people will have to pay slightly more taxes in the future.
According to social worker Christine Kamphuis, the situation regarding housing for people with disabilities is critical.
There is talk of a housing crisis in Berlin.
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