Investigating human rights A representative of an NGO for persons with disabilities explained the problem of a premature determination of original incapacity to work to the AOB. Persons for whom it was determined that they are more than 50% incapacitated to work before starting their working life are outside the Public Employment Service’s responsibility. However, adolescents with impairments still need special support after the end of compulsory education before they can start training or partial qualification. People should be given more time to prove themselves. This is not possible without suitable support structures. The lack of individual coordination of the offers from the Federal Government and the Laender leaves the integration into the daily structure of a workshop as the only possible option. After working in these facilities, young persons with disabilities only have a low chance of finding permanent work on the regular or intermediate labour market. More professional qualification offers needed for the young The support systems must be designed so that persons with severe impairments can take part in working life. This requires the extension of supported employment, personal assistance and non-profit temporary work projects with full protection under the social security scheme. The classification has to be urgently standardised and made more person-oriented. The current 50% limit of incapacity to work and associated exclusion from supporting offers for achieving regular employment and training contracts is rigid and randomly defined. After evaluation, this has to be abolished taking into account the circumstance that the UN CRPD demands a clear departure from the medical model of understanding disability. Accordingly, an open, inclusive, permeable employment market that is accessible to all has to be built pursuant to Article 27 UN CRPD. It must be possible for all persons with disabilities to live from earning their own income. Compensation for former home children - Act on Crime Victims In the Annual Report 2014, the AOB reported about the problems former home children have in enforcing their request for benefits in accordance with the Act on Crime Victims (Verbrechensopfergesetz) at the Ministry of Social Affairs Service. Affected persons who were victims of abuse, violence and degrading treatment in homes for children and juveniles contacted the AOB again in this review period. In most of the cases, the claimants were not fully informed about the eligibility requirements set down in the Act on Crime Victims. For example, many did not know that only the right to covering the cost of psychotherapy or compensation for loss of income is possible. Having to deal intensively again with what they experienced was extremely stressful for many of them. Covering costs for psychotherapy or compensation for loss of income 47