You usually receive BAföG for a first, job-qualifying degree Vocational Training, if you are under 30 years old. After your 30th birthday, it becomes more difficult to submit a promising application, because you have to give a good reason for your delay.
Reasons for the BAfög Office
From now on, you will have to provide the BAföG Office with a good explanation of why you are now starting to study. In essence, the following three justifications are accepted:
- Personal reasons: You have been sick for a long time or are handicapped by a disability (you must, of course, submit a certificate), you want to study a numberus clausus subject and have been waiting for a study place, you have been performing war service for at least eight years but only if he started before the age of 25) or you have family reasons (the legislature is thinking about the education of children under 10 years).
- Second education: You have acquired your so-called university entrance qualification, usually the Abitur or the Fachhochschulreife, on the second education path, for example at an evening high school, a Fachoberschule or a Kolleg and then immediately started to study.
- Studies as further education: You are employed without a formal university entrance qualification and were able to enroll at a university based on your professional qualifications
- Political persecution: By submitting a so - called rehabilitation certificate, they can prove that they were victims of political persecution in the GDR
- Need: They had not yet finished a vocational qualification course when suddenly your life conditions deteriorated decisively, for example by the death of the partner, the parents, by a divorce, etc. Here too, evidence is necessary.
Conditions
Caution: You must start your studies immediately, as soon as the stated reasons have ceased. If this is not the case, you must also provide a good reason (eg with an internship, which is prescribed by the regulations of study, with illness, etc.), if you want to get BAföG.
As you can see, these regulations leave a certain latitude - in the end it is also very dependent on the individual case and the person responsible, which justification is accepted. You can also clarify the situation by a preliminary ruling. By the way, all these subsidies are granted independent of parents.
Authorized groups of persons
You do not automatically receive BAföG because you are in Germany studieren only if you belong to one of the following groups of people:
- You are a German citizen
- You are married to a German citizen
- They have parents with German citizenship, even if they live abroad. Of course you will only get BAföG if you also want to study in Germany. When studying abroad, the corresponding regulations apply.
- You come from an EU country and enjoy either a child's free movement or you have worked legally in Germany for at least six months before the start of your studies, you could support your education and can prove that this work was related to your studies.
- You are not a German, but your father or / and your mother worked in Germany for at least three years within the last six years before starting your studies. Or you yourself have been working in Germany for five years before starting your studies - of course also subject to social insurance, ie you have paid health, pension and unemployment insurance.
- Even if you or your parents have received a pension or unemployment allowance for which you previously had a claim, the prerequisites have been fulfilled if you have worked for at least six months under social insurance.
- You are entitled to asylum, a refugee or homeless and were admitted for humanitarian reasons in Germany.
Support for studies in the EU
Within the European Union and Switzerland, you can start studying abroad with BAföG funding from the first semester onwards. However, one should first assure that the planned study is really recognized in the sense of BAföGs. Otherwise, there may be nasty surprises.
Otherwise, the conditions of funding are identical to those in the country, but the BAföG has to be applied for at the responsible foreign office of BAfög. In addition, it is now possible to change from a course of studies in the EU country to a master's degree, without the loss of the BAföG claim, provided that the previous degree is recognized as a bachelor's degree.
Conditions
But be careful: You should check this very carefully and have it confirmed in writing by all parties involved - i.e. the future university and BAföG office - that the recognition really works.
A long-term study (more than a year) outside of Germany is, however, not funded anyway, if the apprentice had his permanent residence in Germany for less than three years.
foreign allowance
However, there are also disadvantages. This is no longer the case for the foreign bid awarded so far. The travel expenses are flat-rate, with 250 Euro being given for return travel within Europe and 500 Euro outside Europe. Further outward and return journeys, even in the case of a long stay, should be carried only in cases of hardship - ie only on special request and with good reason.
As before, unavoidable study fees can be borne up to an amount of 4600 Euro for a maximum of one year. Even more study fees are only taken into account in exceptional cases. For this purpose, a demand is always required from the competent office.
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