BAföG: Requirement rates for BAföG amount & notification

How much BAföG you get is determined by the requirement rate. However, it is then also checked whether this is the case Income and assets, both yours and that of your parents and your spouse, if applicable, is sufficient to meet your needs.

How high are your requirements?

First you want for sure know how high the requirement rates are. The calculation of your requirement rate is not about your actual, very real and individual Costs (referred to as a concrete need in technical jargon).

Due to the large number of applicants, this would not be calculated for each individual. Much more will be found for you an abstract need.

lump sums

What is included in the calculation? The BAföG specifies lump sums, both for your living expenses (food, accommodation, clothing, etc.) and for the costs of your Vocational Training (Textbooks, travel expenses to the training center, etc.).

From this it is calculated, how high the demand of the individual per month is - just the abstract need, whose amount also depends on where one lives (for example with the parents) which training place one visits and whether one is still in the family health insurance or insure oneself must (from the 25. Taking into account all surcharges, the maximum funding rate for students living abroad is currently 481 Euro per month, for students it is 585 Euro. Depending on the country, there are separate supplements for studying abroad.

Who lives at home

If you are still living at home, depending on the training center you are attending, you have the following basic requirements:

Who lives outside the parental home

If you have already moved out of your home, you will also get a supplement for your basic rental costs - the housing requirement. For example, as a student who no longer lives at home, you have an abstract basic need of 333 Euro and an abstract housing requirement of 133 Euro, in total a requirement rate of 466 Euro. In addition, there is a supplement to rental and additional costs up to 64 Euro above a certain rent. However, this does not apply if you apply for housing allowance. By the way: If you are a boarding student at a boarding school, the costs will not necessarily be reimbursed.

Health and long-term care insurance

Even if you are no longer covered by family insurance as a student or student, but have to pay your own health and long-term care insurance (because you have become 25, for example), you will receive supplementary benefits through BAföG:

How long will BAföG be paid?

Duration of funding for students:

As a student you will get as long BAföG as you visit the training facility. Even if you have to repeat a class, you get BAföG. However, a second repetition is promoted only in the case of particularly serious reasons. And: You get BAföG also during the school holidays.

If you attend an evening school, you will receive BAföG as soon as the engagement no longer exists to work, regularly during the last three half-years of school.

Promotion period for students

How long you receive BAföG as a student is determined by the maximum funding period. This varies in length for each subject. How long you receive BAföG also depends on what you do studieren.

Attention: The promotion period counts from the beginning of the study. Anyone who applies for a grant period of nine semesters only in the fifth semester BAföG does not receive BAföG for nine semesters, but for a maximum of four semesters.

The BAföG decision specifies exactly how long your funding period is. However, this can change - for example, by changing the law by showing reasons in your course of study, why you took longer (more on this under study), because you have one or more children (then, however, the additional support is granted entirely as a grant ) or because you are getting a graduation grant.

Incidentally, the fact that you receive BAföG for a longer period of time does not automatically mean that the maximum funding period will be changed - under certain circumstances BAföG benefits may also be granted beyond the maximum funding period. This fact becomes particularly important if you are to repay your BAföG after years, because it may happen that the Office of Administration is wrong and demands reimbursement too early because it was not informed of the change in the maximum funding period.

Payment with reservation

In some cases will Money paid out conditionally, ie you will receive your money although a final decision has not yet been made on your application. The money can then when the decision has been taken can be reclaimed and you then have to pay the money.

You have asked for an update and you still have to prove your current income

The BAföG Office has processed your application too late and has now to pay you BAföG under reservation (see first application)

You have made the payment by means of a court injunction in the context of a lawsuit.

prepayments

If your parents refuse to pay for you financially, you may receive training funding as advance payment. In this case, your claim to your parents will be transferred to the respective federal state up to the amount of the expenses incurred. This will then pick up the money from your parents.

Remedies against the BAföG decision

If you are dissatisfied with your BAföG decision, for example because you have received little or no money, you have the various possibilities to make use of a remedy. On each of your BAföG notices, you will usually find a legal statement that shows you which deadlines you have to observe. If you do not find any legal advice, you usually have a year for a contradiction.

There are two different ways for a remedy:

contradiction:

You can submit an informal objection to the BAföG office within the period specified for the legal remedy. It is initially sufficient if you inform the BAföG office, stating your name, address, funding number, etc., that you do not agree with the notification satisfied are. You can submit the justification later - but it is better not to wait too long, because even with objections the wheels of bureaucracy grind very slowly and your objection can possibly go through several instances.

The following can be done:

• The BAföG Office accepts your objection and changes your BAföG notification by means of a remedy. Enjoy!
• The BAföG Office finds your objection unfounded and hands it over to the Landesamt für Ausbildungsförderung.

If the Land Office decides in your favor, you can be happy, otherwise you will only have a complaint.

Legal action:

If your objection is unsuccessful, you may file a complaint with the Administrative Court within one month of receipt of the opposition notice.

Since this is a lengthy affair, which can take up to three years, and you usually also get no money during the decision, it is recommended parallel to the application for an interim order to the Administrative Court to make - a kind of urgent request for Disbursement of the BAföG subject to reservation. This application is usually decided within three to four weeks. The lawsuit, however, must be continued at this time.

As a rule, the urgent application is not easy to make since the following criteria must be fulfilled:

• The court attests that the action is expected to be successful.
• You must make sure that you can not study for financial reasons without payment of the BAföG

Error of the BAföG office

Also at the BAföG office only sit People and they make mistakes. If such mistakes were obviously not apparent from the BAföG notification and you received too much BAföG as a result, then you are in good hands when the BAföG office suddenly notices your mistakes and wants your money back: You should be in this If necessary, lodge an objection to the repayment claim and, if necessary, seek legal advice.

It looks different, however, if the mistakes were obvious to laymen from the BAföG application - because then you could have noticed them immediately. In such cases, an opposition to the promotion has little chance.