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Assistance services

Integration assistance benefits for coping with everyday life in a self-determined way, from partly taking over actions to enabling independent management of daily life.

Also called
assistance, everyday assistance, section 78 SGB IX

Assistance services serve self-determined and independent management of everyday life, including structuring the day. They comprise in particular general everyday tasks such as housekeeping, shaping social relationships, personal life planning, taking part in community and cultural life, and leisure activities. [1] Those entitled to benefits decide, on the basis of the participation plan, on the concrete arrangements regarding sequence, place and time. The benefits comprise the full or partial taking over of actions for coping with everyday life as well as accompaniment, and also enabling independent management of daily life, which is provided by professionals as qualified assistance with guidance and exercises. [1] Assistance is part of social participation. More: Integration assistance under SGB IX.

Legal status: 08.10.2026. This is not legal advice; in an individual case, advice centres or specialist lawyers for social law can help.

Sources and literature

  1. § 78 SGB IX – Assistenzleistungen. www.gesetze-im-internet.de/sgb_9_2018/__78.html

In detail: Integration assistance under SGB IX: benefits and responsibility

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