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Housing benefit continuation application

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

In order to continue receiving housing allowance after the end of your current allowance period, you must submit an application for continued benefits to the housing allowance authority responsible for you. You will then receive a decision from there.

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

Whether you are entitled to a housing allowance, and if so, how much, depends primarily on the following factors:

1. on the number of household members to be considered,

2. the amount of your total income,

3. the amount of your rent or charges to be taken into account.

Re 1: Number of household members to be taken into account

In addition to you as a person entitled to a housing allowance, the persons who live with you in an apartment count as household members. This dwelling must be the center of living relations for each of these persons. 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, for example:

- Citizen's allowance or

- Basic income support in old age and in case of reduced earning capacity.

Students and trainees who live alone and who are entitled to Federal Training Assistance (BAföG) or Vocational Training Assistance (BAB) are also not entitled to housing allowance. This also applies if BAföG or BAB was rejected because the parents' income was too high.

Re 2: Amount of the total income

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.

Ad 3: Amount of rent or burden to be taken into account

Rent is the agreed remuneration for the use of the 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 gross cold rent. The rent does not include, for example, heating costs and costs for hot water. Payments for the use of a garage or a parking space for motor vehicles and payments for general support services such as the provision of nursing or care services, domestic services or emergency call services are also not included.

For details, please contact your responsible housing allowance office.

Which documents are required?

In addition to the application form to be completed (application for continued benefits), you must also submit other documents as evidence.

Further documents can be in particular:

Current proof of your rent or burden:

  • Rental agreement,
  • If applicable, current statement of operating costs,
  • in the case of owners: Proof 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 for all household members:

  • Wage and salary statements for the last few months,
  • current pension statement,
  • current notice of receipt of social benefits (e.g. citizen's allowance, parental allowance, advance maintenance payments, sickness benefit),
  • Proof of alimony payments,
  • Proof of interest and other investment income (e.g. in the case of savings accounts, fixed-term deposits, daily allowances, building society savings contracts, funds); in particular tax certificates.

Other evidence (if available):

  • Disability certificate and notification of long-term care insurance benefits.

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

What are the fees?

There are no fees to pay.

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

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. If you are eligible, you will continue to receive housing allowance from the first day of the month following the last month of your current allowance period.

Legal basis

Applications / forms

After you have applied for housing benefit, you will receive a decision from your housing benefit authority. If you feel that your rights have been infringed by this decision, you can lodge an appeal against it.

If you intend to appeal against the decision of the housing benefit 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?

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 illegal 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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