Housing benefit

Please note in particular our information under:

  • Performance specification

    If the income of your private household is not sufficient to cover the costs of your housing yourself, you may have a legal claim to housing benefit. Housing benefit is granted for tenants as a rent subsidy, for owners of residential property (own home, condominium) as a burden subsidy.

    Please note:
    Housing benefit is only granted on application. Payment is made from the 1st of the month in which the application is submitted.

    The amount of housing benefit is determined by the size of the family, the family income and the amount of rent or charges to be taken into account. The rent eligible for housing benefit includes the cold operating costs (so-called gross cold rent), but not heating and hot water costs.

    Among others, recipients of benefits according to the German Social Code (SGB) II and SGB XII are excluded from receiving housing benefit if accommodation costs are already included in their calculation.

  • Which documents are required?

    Special information for - District of Waldeck-Frankenberg

    In order to check your entitlement to housing benefit, please submit the following documents that apply to your case to us. We would like to point out in advance that it may be necessary to request additional documents and evidence from you in the course of processing. If it is possible for you, you can also submit the application documents to us in digital form (PDF file). Please send your digital documents to the following address: wohngeldbehörde@lkwafkb.de or use our digital contact form.

    Please refrain from sending a large number of image files (e.g. photos in JPG format), as compiling them is very time-consuming for us and can extend the processing time of your application. Please refrain from submitting original documents. If you do submit original documents, you must label them clearly, otherwise we cannot guarantee that they will be returned to you due to the electronic file management.

    General documents to be submitted:

    • Rent subsidy (tenant of a flat): Application for rent subsidy or
    • Encumbrance allowance (owner of a detached or semi-detached house): Application for encumbrance allowance
    • Supplementary declaration
    • Household certificate
    • Account statements for the last 3 months of all your current accounts (without gaps)
    • Proof of the income of all household members (e.g. current payslips for the last three months, unemployment benefit I notification, current pension notifications, maintenance payments, child benefit, Bafög etc.)
    • Proof of severe disability and degree of care (if applicable to you)

    Additional rent subsidy:

    • Rental certificate
    • Copy of the tenancy agreement
    • Proof of the amount of ancillary costs to be paid, insofar as these are not included in the rent (e.g. sewage, water, refuse, cable charges)

    additional load allowance :

    • Notarised contract for the house + extract from the land register
    • Loan agreement for the house + corresponding current annual account statement
    • Notification of the granting of public funds (e.g. Baukindergeld, Hessengeld, etc.)
    • Proof of living space
    • Notification of the current property tax B

  • Legal basis

  • What else should I know?

    Special information for - District of Waldeck-Frankenberg

    Detailed information on housing benefit is also available from the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building under the search term "housing benefit".


Start your request directly online

Who do I need to contact?

To the housing benefit office of your independent city or district. In the cities of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Fulda, Hanau, Marburg, Rüsselsheim and Wetzlar, please contact the local housing benefit office instead of the district.

You can download a list of housing benefit offices in Hesse (pdf) from the website of the Hessian Ministry of Economics, Energy, Transport and Regional Development. There you will also find a link to a (non-binding) online housing benefit calculator.

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