Prerequisites
If you would like to receive housing benefit, you are obliged to provide an account with a bank in the European Union to which the housing benefit can be transferred. If you would like housing benefit to be paid to the landlord or another household member in future, please let your housing benefit office know.
The housing benefit authority decides whether it is necessary in individual cases for the housing benefit to be paid to another member of the household, to the recipient of the rent or to the service provider within the meaning of Section 12 of the First Social Code. This can be done either with your written consent or, if this is necessary in individual cases, also without your consent.
Documents required
Payment details must be included in the application.
Please note
If your financial situation or your living conditions have improved or changed, the housing allowance may be reduced. You are obliged to notify the housing benefit authority immediately of any changes that could lead to a reduction in housing benefit.
In order to avoid or uncover the illegal claiming of housing benefit, the housing benefit authority may regularly check the household members by means of a so-called data comparison.
According to §§ 16 ff.
Deadlines
Housing benefit is usually paid starting on the first of the month in which the application is received by a housing benefit office.
