Detailed description
You will receive maintenance advances for your child if you raise them in your household without another parent from whom the child is entitled to maintenance. However, this maintenance is not paid, or is paid incompletely or irregularly by the other parent or the person obliged to pay maintenance. The child's main place of residence must clearly be in your household. You must not have married a new partner. If the conditions for receiving the maintenance are met, you will be paid maintenance advances until your child comes of age. The amount of the maintenance advance depends on the amount of the minimum maintenance.
After the age of 12, your child is only entitled to maintenance if one of the following conditions is met:
- You or your child will not receive citizen’s allowance.
- The maintenance advance can prevent your child from needing assistance.
- You have a gross monthly income of at least EUR 600.00 and receive supplementary unemployment benefit II.
This ensures that all children receive maintenance advance payments without interruption if necessary. At the same time, an important incentive is created for households that are not in need of assistance or that could become independent of basic social security benefits through their own income to secure their own livelihood. The maintenance advance payment is always paid out at the beginning of a calendar month and can be applied for retroactively for one month under certain conditions.