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Housing allowance change notice

Service Description

You must notify the relevant housing allowance authority of any changes in your current housing allowance entitlement in the following cases:

  • the sum of the monthly positive income and earnings of all household members to be considered increases,
  • your monthly rent or burden decreases
  • the number of household members to be taken into account decreases,
  • one or more household members apply for or receive transfer benefits (such as citizen's allowance, social security benefit, basic income support),
  • in case of death of a single household member (notification by the heirs or guardians).

The changes may lead to a reduction or, if necessary, to the complete elimination of the housing allowance.

Process flow

The competent housing allowance authority will decide ex officio on the payment of housing allowance if there have been changes in your circumstances during the current allowance period that are not merely temporary.

Inform the responsible housing allowance authority immediately if, for example, during the current allowance period, not only temporarily (longer than four months)

  • your rent/burden minus the amounts for relief of heating costs decreases by more than 15 percent,
  • the total income of the household members increases by more than 15 percent,
  • the number of household members decreases
  • one or more household members apply for or receive transfer payments (in particular citizen's allowance, social benefits, basic income support),
  • a single household member has died (notification by the heirs or guardians).

After you have notified the changes, you will receive a notice from your housing allowance authority in the event of a change in the amount of the housing allowance.

Who should I contact?

Contact the housing subsidy office responsible for you.

Competent authority

The following authorities are responsible for granting and reclaiming housing allowances in their respective spheres of competence

  • The counties and independent cities,
  • the municipalities of Gotha, Ilmenau, Rudolstadt and Saalfeld.

Requirements

Inform the responsible housing allowance authority immediately if, during the current allowance period, not only temporarily (longer than four months)

  • your rent/burden (excluding heating costs) decreases by more than 15 percent,
  • the income of the household members increases by more than 15 percent,
  • the number of household members decreases
  • one or more household members apply for or receive transfer benefits (citizen's allowance, social security benefit, basic income support),
  • a single household member has died (notification by the heirs or guardians).

Which documents are required?

In addition to the form to be completed (notice of change), you must also submit other documents as evidence (for the changes that have occurred). Further documents can be in particular:

  • Proof of income (salary statement, pension statement, etc.),
  • rental contract or documents on the encumbrance of the residential property used by you, if you are its owner.

You can find out which documents you need to submit in your specific case from the application form or from the information provided by your competent housing allowance authority.

What are the fees?

There are no fees to pay.

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

You must notify the competent body of the changes without delay.

Legal basis

Applications / forms

After you have notified the changes, you will receive a notice from your housing allowance authority in the event of a change in the amount of the housing allowance. If you feel that your rights have been violated by this notice, you can lodge an appeal against it.

If you intend to appeal against the decision of the housing allowance authority, you must do so within one month of notification of the decision.

The same applies if you wish to appeal against the notice of appeal.

You will find all the necessary information in the appeal instructions at the end of the notice.

Appeal

You can obtain the necessary forms from the Form Service Thuringia under the heading Housing Allowance (see also the link below):

Alternatively, you can also obtain the forms from your housing allowance office.

What else should I know?

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 (for example, with the registration authorities or the German pension insurance).

Detailed information is provided by the Federal Ministry responsible for housing allowances (see also the links below):

Author

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.

Technically approved by

Thuringian Ministry for Infrastructure and Agriculture

Professionally released on

31.03.2023

Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)

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