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Children and young people in Magdeburg should have better access to the help package

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The Magdeburg city administration has made it easier to award services from the education and participation package. According to this, children and young people who are entitled to benefits receive a card to which amounts are booked on a monthly basis. These can then be accessed directly by associations, institutions or schools. This emerges from a statement by the city administration. The administration was commissioned to examine how the use of services from the education and participation package could be granted more quickly and with greater efficiency.

Examples from the districts of North Friesland and Verden as well as from the city of Hamm should serve as a comparison. As reported by social officer Simone Borris, the districts of North Friesland and Verden as well as the city of Hamm work with a high level of capacity. This can be attributed to a simplified application process, an electronic billing process in combination with intensive information and public relations work and good cooperation with the providers.

The city of Hamm, for example, works with a You-Card, an electronic accounting system. With the exception of learning support and personal school requirements, all services are billed via the You-Card. The lump sums are booked on the card for the respective approval period. Efforts to interest as many parents and children as possible in the educational package are varied.

15 euros per month as support for children and young people

There are also good contacts to the regional sports association in North Frisia. Every child receives the education card with the application.

Like Magdeburg, Verden works with an electronic billing system – the Sodexo Card. The monthly participation fee is posted to the electronic card.

It was not possible to ascertain that there was a large gap between the use of participation services and the state capital Magdeburg. Regardless of this, the Social and Housing Office has analyzed and changed the previous procedure for granting participation benefits. All children and adolescents who submit an application for educational and participation benefits to the social welfare and housing office will in future have a monthly flat rate of 15 euros with the education card. This provides the legislator with proof of activity within the meaning of the law. If the service is not requested, the amount in the electronic billing system is forfeited.

Participation package also for school supplies and school trips

The education and participation package is available to all families who receive unemployment benefit II, social benefit, social assistance, child allowance or housing benefit. It includes support for excursions to schools and daycare centers as well as class trips, school supplies, school transport, extracurricular learning support, a budget for social and cultural participation of up to ten euros per month as well as communal lunches in schools and daycare centers, can be found in the state of Saxony-Anhalt .

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