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There are the following indications:

If your financial situation or living conditions have improved or changed, there may also be a reduction in housing benefit. 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 unlawful use of housing benefit, the housing benefit authority regularly checks the household members by comparing their data.

In order to avoid or detect the unlawful use of housing benefit, the housing benefit authority may regularly check the household members by comparing data – also in automated form – in particular with the data office of the pension insurance. For example, it may be reconciled,

• whether citizen's allowance (formerly unemployment benefit II) is paid while receiving housing benefit,
• whether there is employment subject to compulsory insurance or marginal employment
• or the amount of investment income for which an exemption order has been issued.

It is also possible to compare with the registration office on registration addresses, residence status and time of re-registration. In addition, it is possible to retrieve accounts from the Federal Central Tax Office. Suspected cases of fraud are generally reported to the public prosecutor's office.

Through these checks, the housing benefit authority can determine, for example,

• whether housing benefit is received more than once,
• whether transfer payments leading to exclusion from housing benefit are received at the same time,
• whether accurate information in the housing benefit application
  • income from employment,
  • income from one or more pensions,
  • have been made income from capital gains (interest or dividends),
• whether, in the case of initial unemployment, the payment of unemployment benefit has been discontinued (e.g. due to taking up new employment) and
• whether the original dwelling, for which housing benefit was paid, is still actually in use.

The review is permitted up to ten years after the announcement of the associated housing benefit approval.

County or the responsible city/municipality