Pursuant to Section 10, Paragraph 1 of SGB II, the law stipulates that you must take up any employment that reduces or terminates your need for assistance (benefit receipt). This includes employment with a temporary staffing agency as well as a “minijob.”
A person of working age who is eligible for benefits is therefore expected to perform any job, unless
1. they are physically, mentally, or emotionally unable to perform the specific work,
2. performing the work would significantly impede the future performance of their current primary occupation because the current job involves special physical demands,
3. performing the work would jeopardize the upbringing of their child or their partner’s child […],
4. performing the work would be incompatible with caring for a family member, and such care cannot be provided in any other way; or there is some other important reason preventing the performance of the work.