Schülerbeförderung Erstattung

Who reimburses transport costs to school?

School transport is a local self-governing task of the districts and independent cities and is carried out independently by them.

If necessary, the districts and independent cities provide transport to public and independent schools or reimburse travel expenses. The conditions for entitlement to school transport or reimbursement of school travel expenses, the type and scope of transport or reimbursement as well as the application and billing procedure are determined by the districts and independent cities by statute. It is published in the relevant official gazette and subsequently also on the Internet. The individual claims of pupils for pupil transport or reimbursement of pupil travel expenses arise exclusively from the respective statutes, not from the Brandenburg School Act. It also depends on the statutes whether parents or adult pupils have to contribute to the school travel costs. As a result of a popular initiative, § 112 of the Brandenburg School Act was amended to the effect that the districts and independent cities are no longer obliged by law to determine a cost sharing. They decide for themselves whether they demand it.

The application for pupil transport or reimbursement of pupil travel expenses must be submitted to the school administration office of the district or the independent city where the pupil lives. Young people with a vocational training or employment relationship submit their application in the district or in the independent city in which their training or workplace specified in the training or employment contract is located. As a rule, the following documents are required:

• Application of parents or adult pupils to the school administration office (application forms at the school administration office, often also in schools and on the Internet),
• Proof of school attendance (copy of the pupil's ID, in case of change of school possibly the admission letter) as well as
• in the case of disability, proof of disability.

If necessary, districts and independent cities provide transport to public and independent schools or reimburse travel expenses.

Districts and district-free cities