Get a job opportunity

Have you been unemployed for a long time, possibly with health restrictions and would like to regain a foothold in the labour market? A work opportunity gives you, as a recipient of citizen's allowance, the opportunity to carry out an activity that prepares you for employment on the labour market.

The activities to be carried out must be additional, non-competitive and in the public interest.

A work opportunity can only be considered if your integration into the labour market cannot be achieved with other benefits. A work opportunity usually lasts up to 24 months. It can be extended by up to 12 months.

Work opportunities are organised by a suitable measure provider. This can be, for example, an educational institution, a charitable and community-orientated company or a non-profit organisation.

The working hours are determined by the job centre on a case-by-case basis.

Your contact person at the job centre will assign you a work opportunity. In addition to your Citizen's Allowance, you will receive an additional expense allowance, for example for additional travelling costs or work clothing. The amount of the additional expense allowance is based on the actual expenses incurred as a result of participating in the work opportunity. You will only receive the additional expenses allowance for hours in which you have actually carried out work, i.e. not for periods of illness, holidays, weekends and public holidays.

You are covered by accident insurance through your programme provider.

If you receive benefits in kind from your programme provider from your own funds, such as a monthly bus and train ticket, your additional work allowance will be reduced accordingly. If you receive additional cash benefits from the programme provider, these will be taken into account as income and offset against your citizen's allowance.

Your organisation will be reimbursed for the costs required to carry out the work opportunity.

The decision on a work opportunity is at the discretion of your job centre. You do not have a legal entitlement to this support.