The Educational Package

The services include the assumption of costs for lunch in school and a day care centre, school supplies and the assumption of costs for the route to school and to a recreation location. The children and young people can take part in a sports club, a music school or in cultural activities and go on excursions and school or day care centre trips. If students need support outside of school to achieve their learning goal, they will also benefit from the educational package.

Eligible are children and young people from families who receive unemployment benefit II, income support, social assistance, child supplement, housing allowance or benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act. The benefits are granted for children and young people up to the age of 25. There is no age limit when receiving social assistance or benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act.

The benefits to participate in cultural, sports and recreational activities can only be used up to the age of 18. Apprentices who receive training allowances cannot receive any benefits from the educational package.

The BuT berlinpass serves as proof of entitlement to benefits from the educational package for children, adolescents and young adults. In order to receive the BuT berlinpass, a certificate of attendance at a day care centre/care contract or school certificate of attendance/student ID must be submitted or presented to your service centre.

You will receive the benefits from the educational package from the office that has already granted the social benefits or from which you have already applied for benefits.

(e.g., pens, notebooks, watercolours, school bags)

Amount of benefit: You receive an annual lump sum of 174 euros for personal school supplies per child. Part of this is paid in February and part in August. You must submit a school certificate for this.

Application: you will receive the money from your grant office when you present your child’s student ID, a school certificate of enrolment, the letter of admission from the school or the assignment from the education authority.

for achieving essential learning goals, e.g., obtaining a qualification, the transition to upper secondary school, supporting individual language skills

Amount of benefit: assumption of the costs for learning support confirmed as necessary by the school and which is implemented under the responsibility of the school

Grant: presentation of the berlinpass-BuT at school and submission of the completed additional form for supplemental learning support

Amount of benefit: assumption of costs

Grant: presentation of the BuT berlinpass at the day care centre or school; for children in child day care: submission the completed and confirmed verification of the child day care to the grant office for social benefits

Amount of benefit: assumption of costs

Grant: submission to the grant office for social benefits of the completed verification confirmed by the day care centre or school

Amount of benefit: costs of 15 euros per month will be covered up to age 18 for

• Membership in clubs (sports, games, cultural and sociability)
• Music lessons,
• Comparable courses or
• Cultural education activities as well as
• Participation in recreational trips.

• One-time events,
• The “Super holiday pass” from JugendKulturService,
• Group offerings for babies and toddlers (PEKIP courses, group swimming, early musical education, etc.),
• Homework supervision in a group,
• Gym fees and much more.

The focus should be on shared experience.

Grant: an application no longer has to be submitted. The money will be paid out to you directly upon presentation of verification (e.g., membership contract). Depending on the recreational activity, payment is made either monthly or in a lump sum. The actual costs do not matter.

In addition to the one-time or monthly contributions, required

• Equipment or rental fees and
• Travel costs for the participation activity or for recreational trips
  will be assumed. You or your child can also receive up to 15 euros per month for these costs.

Grant: you only have to submit proof of the claim (e.g., proof of purchase for equipment, cost statement for a recreational trip) to your service centre. An application no longer has to be submitted.

The costs are not covered in full. The actual amount depends on a co-payment that is calculated for you by the service centre. You have to pay the co-payment yourself.

In addition, by presenting the BuT berlinpass, you or your children will receive the same discounts for cultural, sports and recreational activities as the berlinpass offers. If you want to use the BuT berlinpass, a passport photo of you or your child in a 3.5 cm x 4.5 cm format must also be submitted to your service centre.

Amount of benefit: assumption of the actual transport costs by the grant office for social benefits

• Students with the student ID I (general education schools and vocational schools with full-time instruction in tariff area AB),
• Children from 6 years of age who have not yet attended school and
• Children and young people who have not been assigned a school place but who are required to attend school

can use the free student ticket for tariff area AB of the BVG. The BVG fahrCard required for this can be ordered online at

If you or your child use tariff zone ABC for transport to school, the actual costs incurred can either be reimbursed for the subscription monthly ticket for trainees/students or the regular subscription monthly ticket as part of the education and participation benefits.

Grant: in order to be able to use the school transport within the scope of the services for education and participation, please present to your competent service centre the school certificate of attendance/confirmation of admission from the school or educational institution as well as the Berlin Ticket S or passes. The costs will be reimbursed to you.