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Employment in Cyprus - Persons With Disabilities

Information for disabled Cyprus Expats seeking employment in Cyprus

The Service for the Care of the Disabled, which had functioned under the supervision of the Department of Labour since 1989, was replaced in 2009 by the Department for Social Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities. The department's mission is to improve the quality of life of the disabled, and its strategic objective is the planning and implementation of reforms to open up new prospects for the social inclusion of those persons.

The department provides:

Services for vocational assessment and orientation, vocational training and rehabilitation in sheltered employment centres.
Financial support for self-employment.
Disability allowances for people with severe motor disability.
Care allowance for quadraplegics.
Financial support for disabled people to acquire technical equipment and apparatus or for organisations of disabled people to cover part of their operating costs and rehabilitation programmes.
Financial support for vocational training and rehabilitation in institutions other than government institutions.
Holiday grants.
Extraordinary support for persons with severe disabilities or for organisations or services for the implementation of rehabilitation, integration, dignified living programmes, etc. via the Lottery Welfare Fund.
Financial support for the purchase of wheelchairs and supply of wheelchairs on loan.
Incentives for employers to employ people with disabilities.
Information on any issue or problem concerning people with disabilities.