Wohngeld Feststellung der Weiterleistung bei Neuantrag

§ 22 para. 1 WOGG application for housing benefit
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/wogg/__21.html

and § 25 WOGG approval period
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/wogg/__25.html

Has your housing benefit notice expired? Find out how you can continue receiving housing benefit here.

Housing benefit is intended to help you finance adequate housing for you and your family.
You can request that it be continued when your current housing benefit notice expires.
To avoid interruptions to ongoing housing benefit payments, you should submit an application for continued housing benefit payments before the end of the current approval period. The following applies as with the initial application:

• You can receive a rent subsidy as a tenant, subtenant or resident of an apartment or as a resident of a nursing home (for example, people with disabilities in special housing arrangements).
• You will receive a burden subsidy as the owner of a house or condominium.

If your housing costs are already covered by another social benefit, you are not entitled to housing benefit. This applies to benefits such as:

• Citizen's allowance,
• Basic security in old age,
• Basic security in case of incapacity for work,
• Help with living expenses and
• other transfer payments that include accommodation costs.

To continue receiving housing benefit, you must submit current documentation in addition to your application. All changes since the end of the approval period must be documented. This generally includes:

• current certificate of earnings (form)
• current proof of income, such as salary/earnings statements, pension adjustments
• current BAB/BAföG notices
• Notices about parental allowance
• Notices regarding unemployment benefit I, citizen's allowance, basic security
• last tax assessment, self-assessment and appendix to the self-assessment (form) for self-employed persons and tradespeople

As proof of housing costs or the burden:

• Rent change letter (current rent composition and amount)
• Proof of rent payment (e.g. bank statement)
• if applicable, current water bill from Hamburg Wasser
• current loan agreements and repayment plans as well as proof of payment (e.g. bank statement)
• Proof of property tax amount

In individual cases, further documents may be required.

You will continue to be entitled to housing benefit.

You are entitled to a housing benefit if you:

• are a tenant of residential property,
• are subtenants of living space,
• live in a cooperative or foundation apartment,
• are a resident of a nursing home (including people with disabilities in special housing arrangements),
• have a rental-like right of use (for example, permanent right of residence),
• Are the owner of an apartment building, commercial building or business in which you live,
• live in a single- or two-family house that also contains business premises that do not allow it to be classified as a home,
• have a full-time agricultural job where the living area is not separated from the business area,
• live in a women’s shelter, even if the fee is calculated on a daily basis,
• were placed in accommodation by the homeless authority.

You are entitled to a housing benefit subsidy if you:

• are the owner of a home or condominium,
• own a small settlement,
• have a part-time agricultural job,
• have a full-time agricultural job with separate living and business areas,
• have a permanent right of residence similar to ownership,
• have a hereditary building right or have a claim to the transfer of a building or apartment.

In all cases, you live in the living space yourself and bear the associated costs.

• You can apply for continued housing benefit payments online, in person or by mail.
• You submit the application with all required, current documents to the responsible authority.
• The responsible authority will review your application and documents. If necessary, they will request additional documents or information from you.
• The responsible authority will decide on your application.
• You will receive a notification.

The responsible office will process your application as quickly as possible. How long it takes depends on how complete your information is and whether all the necessary documentation is available. Even if processing takes longer, you will not be disadvantaged. Your housing benefit entitlement will be reviewed from the date of application. You will not lose any housing benefit if you continue to be entitled to it.

• As a rule, you will continue to receive housing benefit from the first of the month after the previous notice has expired, provided you have submitted your application for continued payment to the housing benefit office no later than one month after the end of the approval period.
• The approval for housing benefit is usually valid for 12 months.

If your financial situation or living circumstances have changed, you are obliged to immediately inform the housing benefit authority of any changes that may lead to a reduction in your housing benefit.
In order to prevent or detect the unlawful use of housing benefit, the housing benefit authority may regularly check household members through a so-called data comparison (for example, for income from a mini-job).

contradiction

• Housing benefit helps to finance adequate housing
• Application for continued payment possible if the current housing benefit notice expires
• Rent subsidy for tenants, subtenants, or residents of nursing homes (e.g., people with disabilities in special housing)
• Burden subsidy for owners of houses or condominiums
• no entitlement to housing benefit if the accommodation costs are covered by other social benefits, such as:
  • Citizen's allowance,
  • Basic security in old age,
  • Basic security in case of incapacity for work,
  • assistance with living expenses,
  • other transfer payments that take accommodation costs into account.

Eimsbüttel District Office - Department of Basic Security and Social Affairs - SDZ 1 - Housing Benefit