Reducing housing benefit officially (without application)

Prerequisites

• Your total income has increased by more than 15 percent or
• the number of your household members to be taken into account has decreased by at least one person or
• Your rent or home ownership costs (excluding heating costs) have decreased by more than 15 percent.
• The changes are not temporary. They will last for more than four months.

Documents required

Please note

The recalculation is carried out automatically. To ensure that you are legally receiving housing benefit, the responsible authority may regularly review the data of your household members.
If your rent or housing costs decrease or your income increases, and these changes last for more than four months, you may have to repay any excess housing benefit you have received.

Deadlines

As a housing benefit recipient, you must immediately report any changes that could reduce your housing benefit. If your situation doesn't change exactly at the beginning of the month, the recalculation will take effect on the first of the following month.

Procedure

• The responsible agency will review your housing benefit entitlement ex officio. It will take action on its own initiative. You don't need to do anything.
• You may receive a new notice.

Processing time

As soon as the responsible authority learns of the change in your situation, your housing benefit application will be re-examined and decided within one year.

Fees

No

Legal remedies

contradiction

Legal basis

Section 27 (2) of the Housing Allowance Act (WoGG) Change in housing allowance – reduction

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/wogg/__27.html