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Apply for renewed approval of housing allowance
Service Description
As a rule, housing allowance is granted for twelve months. To avoid an interruption of current housing allowance payments, you should submit a new application for continued housing allowance payments two months before the end of the current allowance period. The conditions for your entitlement will be checked again.
Process flow
You can only receive housing benefit on application.
You must apply for housing benefit at the local housing benefit office. Once the application has been processed, the housing allowance authority will issue a decision.
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
Whether and to what extent you can claim housing benefit depends on various factors, essential ones are:
- How high is your total income?
- How high is your rent or your monthly burden in case of home ownership?
- How many household members do you have and what is their income?
To 1.: The total income results from the sum of the annual incomes of all household members to be considered.
Certain allowances and deductions for maintenance payments can be deducted from this. The calculation of income is based on the Income Tax Act, i.e. the taxable positive income is decisive, supplemented by a catalog of tax-free income to be taken into account. Ten percent must be deducted if income taxes, contributions to statutory health and long-term care insurance or contributions to statutory pension insurance are paid during the period of eligibility.
If all three of these or similar payments are made, the deduction amounts to 30 percent.
Re 2: Rent is the agreed payment for the use of living space on the basis of a rental agreement. Burden in the case of owners is the expenditure for debt service and management of the property. The basis for calculating the housing allowance is the so-called gross cold rent. The rent does not include, for example, heating costs and costs for heating water. Household electricity and allowances for the use of a garage or parking space for motor vehicles are also not included.
The rent or charge is only eligible up to certain maximum amounts. The maximum amounts depend on the local rent level, the so-called rent levels, and the number of household members to be considered.
Re 3: Household members are the person entitled to housing allowance and other persons expressly named in the Housing Allowance Act if they share the apartment for which housing allowance is claimed with the person entitled to housing allowance. This dwelling must be the center of living relations for each named person. All household members are taken into account if they are not excluded from the housing allowance. You are excluded from housing benefit if you receive transfer payments (other social benefits) in which housing costs are already included, e.g. basic benefits for job-seekers (unemployment benefit II) or basic benefits for old age and reduced earning capacity.
Students and trainees living alone who are entitled to BAföG or Berufsausbildungsbeihilfe (BAB) are also not entitled to a housing allowance, even if BAföG or BAB was rejected because the parents' income was too high.
For details, please contact your local housing subsidy office.
Which documents are required?
You still need to attach the following proofs to the completed application form:
Current proof of rent or encumbrance, in particular:
- Rental agreement,
- if applicable, current statement of operating costs,
- in the case of owners: Evidence of existing loans taken out for the purchase, construction or modernization of the home or condominium,
- in the case of owners: current property tax assessment.
Current proof of income of all household members, e.g.
- Wage and salary slips for the last few months,
- current pension statement,
- current notice of receipt of other social benefits (e.g. unemployment benefit, parental allowance, advance maintenance payments, sickness benefit),
- Proof of alimony payments,
- Proof of interest and other investment income (e.g. for savings accounts, fixed-term deposits, daily allowances, building society savings contracts, funds); in particular tax certificates.
- Other proof (if available), e.g.
- Disability certificate and notification of long-term care insurance benefits.
What are the fees?
There are no fees to pay.
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 subsidy 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 inform the housing allowance authority immediately of any changes that may lead to a reduction in the housing allowance.
In order to prevent 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)
