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Asylum Seekers Benefits Act basic benefits

According to the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act, you can apply for benefits to secure your livelihood.
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Detailed description

You can use monthly benefits to secure your

  • Nutrition,
  • accommodation, heating,
  • Clothing,
  • health and personal care as well
  • Household durables and consumables.
In addition to this, benefits can be granted if these are essential to secure subsistence or if additional benefits are required to cover the special needs of children or to fulfill an administrative obligation to cooperate.

 

Information

Prerequisites

Benefits are given to foreigners who

  • have a residence permit,
  • have a residence permit without a work permit in Germany because of the war in their home country,
  • have a Duldung or
  • whose asylum procedure has not been completed.

Documents required

  • request as well
  • Documents about income, burdens and assets
  • Identification documents (residence permit, toleration or residence permit or settlement permit)

Please note

Since January 2023, central processing has been carried out by the
Interior and Sports Authority,
Department M 43,
Bargkoppelstieg 10-14,
22145 Hamburg,
Email: asylumblg@amtfuermigration.hamburg.de
Tel. 040 428 39-4399
Fax: (040) 427 93 - 9885
There are no open consultation hours at the Bargkoppelstieg location. Until an online appointment is set up, the open consultation hours can be reached by telephone on Fridays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on 040 428 39-4399.
Please note the information about our open consultation hours under opening times.

Deadlines

no

Procedure

After the application has been submitted, an examination and decision will be made, and you will receive a written notification of this.

Processing time

A decision will be made on the application as quickly as possible. The processing time depends, among other things, on the completeness of the information and the submission of the evidence required to process the application.





Fees

no

Legal remedies

contradiction

Legal basis

§ 3 AsylbLG basic benefits

Address and contact information

Office for Migration

Services for Asylum Seekers Unit M43

Since January 1, 2023, the responsibility for processing applications under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act (AsylbLG) has been with the Authority for Internal Affairs and Sport (BIS) in the Office for Migration (Amt M; Unit M43) and no longer with the district offices for basic security.

Due to a very high number of visitors, auditions without an appointment are currently not possible.

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Last updated: 16.02.2025