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Is the approval period for your housing benefit coming to an end? Then you should submit a new application in good time before your approval period expires in order to ensure continued housing benefit payments.

Housing benefit is generally granted for twelve months. To avoid an interruption of current housing benefit payments, you should submit a new application for continued housing benefit two months before the end of the current approval period. The conditions for your entitlement will be checked again.

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

Further documents may include in particular

Current proof of your rent or charges:

• Tenancy agreement,
• current statement of operating costs, if applicable,
• for owners: Proof of existing loans taken out for the purchase, construction or modernization of the home or condominium,
• for owners: current property tax assessment.

Current proof of income of all household members:

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

Other evidence (if available):

• Severely disabled person's pass and notification of long-term care insurance benefits.

Please refer to the application form or the information provided by your local housing benefit office to find out which documents you need to submit in your specific case.

Whether and to what extent you are entitled to housing benefit depends primarily on the following factors:

1. the number of household members to be taken into account,

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 the person entitled to housing benefit, the household members include the people who live with you in the same home. This home must be the center of life for each of these persons. All household members are taken into account if they are not excluded from housing benefit. You are excluded from housing benefit if you receive other social benefits that already include housing costs, for example

- Citizen's allowance or

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

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

Re 2: Amount of total income

The total income is the sum of the annual income of all household members to be taken into account. Certain allowances and deductions for maintenance payments can be deducted from this.

Re 3: Amount of the rent or charge to be taken into account

The rent is the agreed remuneration for the use of the living space on the basis of a rental agreement.

Burdens for owners are the expenses for debt servicing and the management of the property.

The basis for calculating the housing benefit is the gross rent. The rent does not include, for example, heating costs and costs for hot water. It also does not include payments for the provision of a garage or parking space for motor vehicles or payments for general support services such as the provision of nursing or care services, domestic services or emergency call services.

For details, please contact your local housing benefit office.

There are no fees.

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

To avoid an interruption of current housing benefit payments, you should submit a new application for continued payment of housing benefit two months before the end of the current approval period. If you are eligible, you will continue to receive housing benefit from the 1st of the month following the last month of your current approval period.

If your financial situation or living circumstances have improved or changed, this may also lead to a reduction in housing benefit. You are obliged to inform the housing benefit authority immediately of any changes that could lead to a reduction in housing benefit.

In order to avoid or uncover unlawful claims for housing benefit, the housing benefit 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 available from the Federal Ministry responsible for housing benefit:

After you have submitted an application for continued payment of 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 lodge an appeal against the decision of the housing benefit authority, you must do so within one month of being notified of the decision.

The same applies if you wish to appeal against the decision.

You will find all the necessary information in the information on legal remedies at the end of the notice.

• Housing benefit approval again
• Housing benefit is generally granted for twelve months.
• In order to avoid an interruption of current housing benefit payments, a new application for continued housing benefit should be submitted two months before the end of the current approval period.
• The housing benefit authorities are responsible for this.

Contact the housing benefit authority responsible for you.

The authorities responsible for granting and reclaiming housing benefit are

• the administrative districts and independent towns,
• the district municipalities of Ilmenau, Rudolstadt and Saalfeld.

You can obtain the necessary forms from the Form Service Thuringia under the heading Housing Benefit:

Alternatively, you can also obtain the forms from your housing benefit authority.

The federal, state and local authorities are currently working on making all essential administrative procedures digital.

Please check, for example, on the website of your local housing benefit authority to see whether it already offers electronic application for your housing benefit matter.

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