Are you blind or are you treated as a blind person due to severe visual impairment? Find out how you can apply for financial support from the Blindenhilfe (Blindenhilfe) program here.
If you are experiencing difficulties in your old age, you can apply for assistance from the social welfare office. Further information is available here.
If the continuation of a household is at risk and there is economic need, you can receive help from the social welfare agency to continue the household.
Care assistance is a need-based social benefit that you can receive to support yourself as a person in need of care who cannot cover the necessary care costs from your own resources.
While you are receiving housing benefit, you can apply for a change at any time. If there are any changes that could reduce your housing benefit, you must report them immediately.
Do you receive a maintenance advance? The maintenance advance office checks annually whether all the requirements for entitlement to a maintenance advance are still met.
Are you a single parent and receive no or only partial maintenance from the other parent? You can then apply for a maintenance advance under certain conditions.
Children or young people in foster families or in residential child and youth welfare facilities are entitled to medical care. Parents living in shared accommodation arrangements with their children may also be entitled to medical care.
Do you want to register your child with a childminder? There is a legal right to so-called early childhood education when the child is 1 year old. Places for early childhood education include crèches, kindergartens, after-school care centers and ...
If you have your child looked after in a daycare facility, you will have to pay part of the care costs yourself once a certain level of care is reached.
If you want to look after a child or several children outside the household of the legal guardian on a regular basis and for payment, you usually have to apply for a permit.
If several of your children attend a daycare facility or are looked after in child day care at the same time, you can apply for a reduction in the parental contribution.
Do you have sole custody of your child and need a certificate confirming this? Learn more about the process, costs, duration, and required documents here.
Do you have or are you going to have a child and the child's father does not want to acknowledge his paternity or is unknown? Then you can get advice and support.
Are you a single parent and are you not getting enough money or no money from the other parent for your child? Then you can get advice and support from the youth welfare office.
If you have problems or conflicts in the exercise of parental responsibility or visitation rights, parenting and family counseling centers offer you support and advice.
Is your child experiencing difficulties in their daily life or development? Are you, as a parent, unable to help your child on your own? Then a child support worker can assist your child.
If the other parent lives abroad and does not pay maintenance to you, you can assert your maintenance claim abroad. You can get support in enforcing your maintenance claim.
Are you experiencing or at risk of homelessness? The responsible housing emergency office will assess your eligibility and, if necessary, can find you emergency accommodation.
If your child is cared for in a daycare facility and there are changes in the type and extent of care or your income, you must report this to the responsible authority.
As a recipient of basic social security benefits, you can receive reimbursement for school supplies under certain conditions. This is possible if you apply for benefits under the Education and Participation Package.
As a recipient of basic social security benefits, you can, under certain conditions, receive reimbursement for school or daycare trips. This is possible if you apply for benefits under the Education and Participation Package.
While you are receiving housing benefit, you can apply for a change at any time. If there are any changes that could reduce your housing benefit, you must report them immediately.
Here you will find all important information about the initial application / new application for child day care and can apply for the daycare voucher online.
If you want to ensure that no one is allowed to park or stop in a certain area for a certain period of time, you can apply for a temporary no-parking zone.
You can block wage tax deduction features (tax class, child allowances) by notifying your tax office. Your employment company will then tax your wages according to tax class VI.
If it subsequently turns out that the person documented in the certificate of inheritance is not the real heir, the certificate of inheritance must be withdrawn.
Succession can also be regulated by drawing up an inheritance contract. This is particularly interesting for unmarried couples, as they cannot inherit according to the statutory succession or draw up a joint will.
As a citizen of Germany, you automatically receive a tax identification number. You can find out how to request it if you lose it or if you move to Germany here.
The Federal Finance Administration provides the forms for the income tax return on the Internet (see links). Forms that require electronic submission (e.g. Annex S - income from self-employment -, Annex G - income from a business -, Annex EÜR - ...
Do you want to know where the nearest police station is or are you looking for a specific police station in Hamburg? You can find the contact details here.
If you have purchased or decommissioned an electronic recording system (e.g. an electronic cash register or taximeter), you must send data about it electronically to the responsible authority.
You can receive financial support for your studies or internship. Here you can find out how to get advice from the Hamburg Student Union about funding opportunities such as BAföG (Federal Training Assistance Act).
If you have been sentenced to evacuate your apartment and the eviction is imminent (an eviction date has been set by the bailiff), you can apply for eviction protection no later than 2 weeks before the eviction date.
To clarify the tax account, taxpayers or their tax advisors can request account statements for individual tax types or for the entire tax account from the tax office for tax collection in Hamburg.
Anyone who has become an heir must decide whether to accept or reject the inheritance. If you do not want to accept an inheritance, you can declare your rejection of the inheritance to a notary, have it certified and submit it to the probate court.
With a custody order - a so-called last will and testament - parents or single parents can regulate in advance who should represent their minor children after their death.
