When and how do you have to submit your application to BAföG? What dates and deadlines are to be observed? And how do you have to fill the form sheets to make everything correct? Here are answers!

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How to apply?

You should submit your BAföG application as early as possible - you will only receive BAföG from the time you submit your application, provided your studies have already begun. You must submit the application in writing using the forms provided for this purpose. You can get the forms from all offices for training grants that also process the BAföG applications and decidewhether you can get BAföG.

You can also use the form sheets online at the address http://www.bafoeg.bmbf.de find and print.

You can submit your application yourself if you are at least 15 years old, but you can also send your legal representatives (parents) there. Incidentally, you do not have to send the application in person, you can also send it by post. A Online-Unfortunately, the application is not yet possible, if only because of the signatures that you have to provide.

Which BAföG Office is responsible?

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Depending on which Vocational Training If you do, the BAföG office at your place of residence or your place of training is responsible. If you're not in college studieren, you may submit your application to another agency.

After all, even though colleges with their own student unions often came into being in smaller cities in recent years - by far not all municipalities and districts have their own office for the promotion of education. In some cities, for example, the youth welfare office is responsible for this - please inquire with your city administration if necessary.

students

For students from home and abroad (if they are entitled to BAföG) at universities and technical colleges, the training location principle applies. In other words: You submit your application to the Office for the Promotion of Education at the Studentenwerk of the university to which you are enrolled.

Internship

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Even if you are doing an internship for which you only receive BAföG, if it is prescribed in the regulations, you must submit your application to the Studentenwerk of the university where you are enrolled.

Other adult education facilities

If you are attending an evening gymnasium, a college, a higher technical school or an academy, please submit your application to the Office for the Promotion of Education, in the district where your training institution is located. This also applies if you would like to attend a study course or a German course and would like to apply for BAföG.

Students

In the case of regular pupils, the situation is somewhat different: here the residence principle applies, namely to the parents of the pupil. In the plain text: As a student, submit the application to the Office for Promoting Education in the district where your parents live.

How to submit the application

If you have not succeeded in filling out all the forms in time, perhaps because you usually have a lot to do at the beginning of your studies or semester,

As a BAföG application is already a simple slip with the following details:

Or you fill out form 1, the actual BAföG application with the most important information, and give it off. More about the application procedures under the initial application

In any case, all further documents should be submitted as quickly as possible, since the application is considered to be submitted and BAföG is paid in principle, however, the application is only processed once all the documents are available and this can take. Once the application is approved, the BAföG is then paid out retroactively.

initial application

Anyone who applies for BAföG for the first time will initially find themselves faced with a jumble of forms that first need to be understood. If you then another study place via the ZVS, so that you only get the name of your university - and thus the responsible BAföG office - shortly before the start of your studies, it can become scarce over time. But don't panic, the BAföG application should be submitted as early as possible, since BAföG is only available from the time the application is submitted, but it is sufficient if the application is submitted no later than the month in which the course begins (possibly also informally), since that BAföG is of course only paid out at the beginning of your studies.

You must submit the application in writing on the form sheets provided for this purpose, which you can obtain from all the offices for training or online http://www.bafoeg.bmbf.de can get.

The following forms must be completed:

Form 1the actual application form - it is sufficient if this is specified first and all other forms are submitted later (BAföG is of course only available if you have also specified all other forms and documents). Here you also provide information on your income and assets during your training.
Appendix B to Form 1This includes the information on the previous school career
Form 2Certificate according to § 9 BAföG about the attendance of a training center, the participation in an internship / distance learning course etc. - here the enrollment certificate is sufficient.
Form 3This is not from you, but from your father or your mother and, if you are married, from your spouse. Here, the respective income relationships must be explained.
Form 4You must complete this if you are not a German citizen.
Form 5Only required if the initial application is from the fifth semester: Here the proof of achievement is entered, which must be completed at the beginning of the fifth semester.
Form 7The update request that changes the calculation period.
Form 8If you want to submit an application for advance payment of BAföG.
MietbescheinigungAlways necessary, or who still lives with the parents, can be certified by them.

Please note the explanations on the relevant forms and attach the necessary supporting documents and supporting documents - only then can the Office for Training Support process your application quickly and make the payments on time.

If all documents have been handed in on time and you wait and wait for the BAföG notification - then you have either forgotten something or the BAföG office is sleeping. Ask In any case, check again.

By the way, if the full initial application has been at the BAföG Office for six weeks, without the approval or refusal of the application, or if you wait for ten weeks in vain to pay BAföG, you have the right to receive training in the amount of up to 360 Euro monthly for a maximum of four months to get. However, this payment will be subject to the repayment, which means that if your request is still rejected or you receive less, you will have to repay part of the BaföG.

Every year again - repeat request

BAfög is paid for a maximum of one year each time. This year is called the approval period in technical jargon. For follow-up funding in the following year, a new application – a repeat application – must be submitted. You shouldn't wait too long, useful is to submit the application one of the two months before the end of the approval period so that the Money continues to flow seamlessly.

As a rule, this means that the following form sheets have to be filled out, which must be submitted to all offices for training or online http://www.bafoeg.bmbf.de can get:

Form 1The actual application form. Here one must above all specify whether their own income and assets changed during the training.
Form 2Certificate according to § 9 BAföG about the attendance of a training center, the participation in an internship / distance learning course etc. - here the enrollment certificate is sufficient.
Form 3This is not from you, but from your father or your mother and, if you are married, from your spouse. Here, the respective income relationships must be explained. Also here should be displayed, if something has changed.
Form 5Here is the proof of achievement, which must be provided at the beginning of the fifth semester.
Form 6If you want to study further abroad or do a prescribed internship, you must complete it.
Form 7The update request that changes the calculation period.
Form 8If you want to submit an application for advance payment of BAföG.
MietbescheinigungAlways necessary, or who still lives with the parents, can be certified by them.

In addition, you must always specify your delivery number from now on.

All other applications, for example to an extension of the duration of the promotion or to a further promotion despite the changed course of studies (change of subject / change of focus) must be informal with a good reasoning and, of course, all important data.

ruling in advance

By means of a preliminary decision, you can already make a binding statement about whether BAföG is entitled to you at all. This may save you some effort because you can submit the corresponding application formally to your (probably) competent BAföG office. A simple note with the following information is sufficient:

Attention: Since the preliminary decision is only based on the reason, i.e. you are told whether you are entitled to BAföG at all, but not how much your BAföG will be and whether you would receive BAföG at all based on your income and financial situation, this is necessary Office also no information about your Income.

A preliminary decision can be particularly interesting for you if you want to continue studying abroad, change your subject or complete a second degree, or if you are already older than 30 years - because especially then it is not for surewhether you can get BAföG for the reason.

Incorrect information

A BAföG application is not uncomplicated and Nobody is perfect - mistakes happen.

But beware: that can be expensive! If you have received too much BAföG on the basis of false statements (whether they were intentionally or unintentionally made), you should repay this and hope that the BAföG office will not impose a fine. In the past few years - and still are - numerous cases of BAföG fraud in the whole federal territory were uncovered, since the BAföG office compares its data with the tax office.

It is therefore strongly discouraged to deliberately provide false information in order to cheat a higher BAföG. Legal remedies, i.e. an objection or a lawsuit against the BAföG office, also make little sense in such cases: This presents oneself as unreasonable and one can certainly expect a fine. Anyone who bows, especially in the case of minor offenses, and his "Debt” admits, can rather hope for sympathy from the BAföG office – but this certainly also depends on the clerk.

update request

When calculating the BAföGPerformance In principle, the income of your parents or your spouse is also included - namely the income that was earned in the penultimate calendar year before the application was submitted. Since this is unfair if they have suddenly changed the income situation of the person concerned (something through pension, illness, unemployment), you have the opportunity to submit an update request. But think about it carefully: once the BAföG office has approved the application, you cannot undo it!

When applying for an update, the expected income during the approval period is now included in the on account included. You can only estimate this, so you will only receive your BAföG with reservations. When it is finally certain how much your parents/your spouse have earned, a final calculation is made of how much BAföG you should have received - and it may be that you will still receive additional payments or that you will have to repay overpaid BAföG yourself. This application is therefore definitely not suitable for cheating!

Why the success also depends on the employee

Of course, there are laws that officers have to follow. But officials are only People and therefore a BAföG application is not the same as a BAföG application.

The one clerk needs meticulously all the documents, the other one copies the application only once. One does not fit your nose and the other invites you to a coffee.

Ultimately, it turns out that Success of the BAföG application, despite all the stipulated laws and regulations, the human component plays a decisive role. You always feel this when the officials themselves have a certain freedom of action - for example when it comes to the question of whether your change of subject is recognized as a change of subject or as a shift in focus.

For this reason, you should observe some important points when dealing with the BAföG Office:

Be on good terms with the clerk(s) Don't stand up to confident - in this case, the clerks have more leverage. It is best to submit applications in person - this will improve the Contact to your clerk and he or she may give you some tips when you apply.

Show yourself conscientiously and neatly in compiling the documents and forms - you give a good impression and relieve the clerk of a little work. Discuss your experiences at the BAföG office with fellow students or in forums - many experiences are great individualGet advice or read more about the tips and Tricks about dealing with the BAföG office.


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