Housing support
Subsidy for your rent – Housing support is designed to help all those whose income is not adequate to cover the cost of suitable accommodation. Students may be able to obtain housing support under certain circumstances.
Subsidy for your rent – Housing support is designed to help all those whose income is not adequate to cover the cost of suitable accommodation. Students may be able to obtain housing support under certain circumstances.
In principle, students are not entitled to housing benefit if they are entitled to BAföG “on the merits”, regardless of whether they actually receive BAföG. This results from § 20 WoGG, after which a competition of laws arises, since the BAföG requirement already includes a part for housing costs. Therefore, if the education is eligible for BAföG, the student is not entitled to housing benefit. The only exception is if BAföG is received exclusively as a bank loan, in which case students can also apply for housing benefit.
The entitlement to housing allowance for students is therefore linked to whether there is a claim to BAföG “on the merits”. This means whether the studies can generally be funded with BAföG. Whether BAföG has actually been applied for, money flows or does not flow because, for example, the income of the spouse/life partner or parents is too high, is irrelevant for the entitlement to housing benefit.
The only decisive factor is the eligibility of the education, which should be the case for the majority of students.