Press Integration assistance for disabled people: number of recipients up 1.8% in 2017

Press release No. 497 of 17 December 2018

WIESBADEN – In 2017 just under 911,000 people in Germany received integration assistance for disabled people in accordance with the German Social Code, Book XII, Chapter 6 (SGB XII). This was an increase of 1.8% compared with the preceding year. Based on information from the relevant administrative agencies, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the upward trend in the number of recipients has continued since 2005.

Basic data and long time series are available in tables Recipients of benefits (22131) in the GENESIS-Online database

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