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Housing allowance payment received
Service Description
The approved housing allowance will be paid to the person entitled to the housing allowance monthly in advance for the approval period. For this purpose, you must specify an account at a financial institution within the European Union to which the housing allowance can be paid. If you do not have such an account, the housing allowance can be sent to your place of residence. The housing allowance can be paid with written consent to, for example, another household member or the landlord. Without consent, payment may be made to the landlord, for example. You can find the payment data in your housing allowance notice. If the housing allowance is not paid to the housing allowance recipient in the future, you will also receive a notice.
Process flow
The housing allowance granted to you will be paid to you monthly in advance.
Who should I contact?
Please contact the responsible housing subsidy authority. This is the district administration, in large cities belonging to a district or independent cities the city administration.
Competent authority
The responsible housing subsidy authority is the district administration, in large district or independent cities the city administration.
Requirements
You are obliged to indicate an account at a financial institution of the European Union to which the housing allowance can be transferred. If you would like the housing allowance to be paid to the landlord or another household member in the future, please inform your housing allowance office.
The housing allowance office will decide whether it is appropriate in individual cases for the housing allowance to be paid to another household member, to the recipient of the rent or to the benefit provider as defined in Section 12 of Book One of the Social Code.
This can be done either with your written consent or, if required in an individual case, without your consent.
What are the fees?
If the housing allowance is transferred to your place of residence because it is not possible to transfer it to an account at a financial institution in the European Union, you will have to bear the costs incurred for this. The transfer costs will then be deducted from the housing allowance.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
Housing allowances are usually paid from the first of the month in which the application is submitted.
Legal basis
Applications / forms
Opposition
Appeal
You can obtain the application form with attachment from the responsible housing allowance office
What else should I know?
If your financial situation or your living circumstances have improved or changed, this may also result in a reduction of the housing allowance. You are obliged to notify the housing benefit authority immediately of any changes that may lead to a reduction in housing benefit.
In order to avoid or detect the unlawful claiming of housing allowance, the housing allowance authority may regularly check the household members by means of a so-called data comparison.
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
Technically approved by
Thuringian Ministry for Infrastructure and Agriculture
Professionally released on
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)
