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Housing allowance increase request

Service Description

You can apply for a higher housing allowance as a subsidy for your housing costs while you are still receiving housing allowance if

  • your total income has decreased
  • the number of household members to be considered has increased, or
  • your rent or homeownership burden has increased.

These changes may, but do not necessarily, lead to an increase in the housing allowance.

Process flow

To receive a higher housing allowance, you must submit an application for an increase to the housing allowance authority responsible for your area.

After the application has been processed, you will 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

Conditions for an increase in housing allowance:

  • the reduction of the total income by more than 10%,
  • the increase in the number of household members to be taken into account,
  • the increase of the rent or charge to be taken into account minus the amounts for relief from heating costs by more than 10%.

Which documents are required?

In addition to the application form to be completed (increase application), 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.),
  • documents about the rent increase,
  • 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?

The increase takes place from the month of the application. As a rule, a retroactive increase of the housing allowance is not possible.

Legal basis

Applications / forms

After you have applied for an increase in housing benefit, you will receive a decision from your housing benefit authority. If you feel that your rights have been violated by this decision, 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?

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

Further 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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