Service Finder
Housing benefit recovery notice received
Service Description
If your housing benefit notice has been cancelled, you must repay the housing benefit paid to you. If your housing allowance notice has become invalid and housing allowance has (continued to) be paid, you must refund the housing allowance paid to you under certain conditions.
Process flow
The housing allowance authority decides on the recovery of your housing allowance. A hearing will take place before the reclaim is made. You will be informed of the intended decision. You will also be given the reasons. You will receive a decision about the reclaim.
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
Housing allowance is reclaimed under certain conditions:
- If your housing allowance notice has been cancelled, the housing allowance already paid must be refunded.
- If housing benefit has been paid without a housing benefit notice, e.g. if the housing benefit notice has become invalid, the housing benefit already paid must be refunded if the housing benefit recipient did not trust in the existence of the administrative act or his trust is not worthy of protection when weighed against the public interest in a withdrawal.
The recipient of the housing allowance cannot rely on trust insofar as
- he/she was aware of the illegality,
- he/she obtained the decision by fraudulent deception, threat or bribery, or
- the decision is based on information which the recipient of the housing allowance has provided intentionally or with gross negligence and which is materially incorrect or incomplete.
Which documents are required?
Reclaiming is done ex officio. If necessary, the required documents will be requested by the housing subsidy authority.
What are the fees?
There are no fees to pay.
Legal basis
Applications / forms
Opposition
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)
