In order to receive the vocational training allowance, you and your vocational training must be eligible for funding.

Eligible group of people:

• You do not live with your parents during your training and the training company is too far away from your parents' home or you
  • are at least 18 years old or
  • are or were married or
  • have at least one child who lives with you.
• Even if you are not German, you are generally entitled to a vocational training allowance, unless
  • You have a residence permit under the Asylum Act.
  • You are tolerated and have been in Germany for less than 15 months without interruption with permission, authorization or toleration.
• You cannot raise the necessary funds to cover the following costs:
  • Living expenses
  • Travel costs between accommodation and training center or vocational school
  • Family trips home
  • work clothes
  • Childcare costs

Eligible vocational training:

• It is your first vocational training or
• if it is not your first vocational training: you cannot be permanently integrated into the workforce in any other way.
• You are doing vocational training.
  • that is recognized under the Vocational Training Act, the Crafts Code or the Maritime Labour Act
  • or vocational training in accordance with Part 2 of the Nursing Professions Act.
• You conclude a vocational training contract.

If you have a disability, you can also receive a vocational training allowance if

• you are doing vocational training that deviates from the training regulations for state-recognized training occupations or is carried out in special forms for people with disabilities,
• you have to extend your training,
• you are repeating all or part of your training due to your disability and permanent participation in working life would otherwise not be possible, or
• you live in the household of your parents or one of your parents.

Additional requirement for pre-vocational training measures:

• The pre-vocational training measure is carried out on behalf of the employment agency

Training or pre-vocational training abroad is eligible for funding as follows:

• For partial training abroad, if
  • the part of the training abroad does not last longer than 1 year and
  • the part of the training abroad appears to be appropriate with regard to the overall duration of the training
• in the case of complete training abroad,
  • if the training abroad is particularly useful for the applicant's professional objective and
  • it is officially confirmed that the training abroad is equivalent to in-company training in Germany
• in the case of pre-vocational training partly taking place abroad, if
  • the part abroad does not exceed half of the planned funding period and
  • the part abroad appears appropriate with regard to the total duration of the measure.