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If you already receive housing benefit, you can apply for an increase in housing benefit under certain circumstances.

Your entitlement to housing benefit could increase if

• your total income has decreased by more than 10 percent,
• your rent or housing costs (excluding heating costs) have increased by more than 10 percent or
• the number of household members has increased.

If your total income has decreased because there are fewer members in your household, this may also be a reason for an increase in housing benefit.

Please submit the following documents:

• Proof of the change in rent or charges and/or
• Proof of the change in income and/or
• Proof of the change in the household members to be taken into account

• Your total income has decreased by more than 10 percent or
• the number of members of your household has increased or
• your rent or your housing costs (excluding heating costs) have increased by more than 10 percent
  
  and
• this results in a higher housing benefit entitlement when calculating housing benefit

For details, please contact your local housing benefit office.

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• You send your application in writing or online to the housing benefit office responsible for you.
• The authority will check your application and send you a decision.
• If approved, the housing benefit is usually granted for twelve months.

The processing time depends, among other things, on the completeness of your information and the submission of the evidence required for processing the application. Any longer processing times are not at your expense: housing benefit can also be granted and paid retroactively for periods from the date of receipt of the application.

As a rule, you will receive the higher housing benefit from the first of the month in which your application is received by the Housing Benefit Office.

In the event of a retroactive rent increase or an increase in the burden of home ownership, there may also be a retroactive increase in housing benefit, but only up to the date from which you were granted housing benefit.

• Appeal

You will find further information on how to lodge an objection in the notification of your application for housing benefit.