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Are you unable to finance one-off needs yourself, such as initial equipment for an apartment or for a baby? Then you can apply for one-off benefits from your local social welfare office.

If you receive assistance with living expenses or basic income support in old age and in the event of reduced earning capacity, you can receive one-off needs in addition to the standard needs in the following special situations.

You can also receive benefits for one-off needs,

• if you do not receive social assistance benefits and
• cannot finance the one-off needs yourself.

The one-off needs include

• Initial furnishings for the home including household appliances, for example:
  • when moving into your own home for the first time
  • after a house fire or flood
  • when renting for the first time after serving a longer prison sentence
  • after moving from shared accommodation
  • when leaving a women's or men's home
  • after separation and division of household contents
• Initial provision of clothing, for example
  • after a house fire or flooding
  • in the event of total loss or new needs due to exceptional circumstances. This also includes blatant weight loss due to illness
  • after homelessness
• Initial equipment during pregnancy and childbirth:
  • Initial equipment
  • Maternity clothes
  • Purchase of furniture and other items such as changing table with mat, crib with mattress, bathtub, baby carriage with accessories
• Purchase and repair of orthopaedic shoes
• Repair of therapeutic devices and equipment
• Hire of therapeutic equipment, e.g. subsidizing the personal contribution if the costs are covered by health insurance and, under certain circumstances, if the costs are not covered by health insurance.

As with all social assistance benefits, one-off benefits are subject to financial need. If you do not live alone, the income of all household members living together in the same home will be taken into account, provided they live together. This includes, for example

• earned income
• maintenance payments
• Pension income

Child benefit paid for minors and any maintenance payments for a child are attributed to this child in order to cover their needs.

Certain assets are not considered to be protected assets, for example

• small amounts of cash and financial assets
  • per adult: EUR 10,000
  • per child: EUR 500
• an appropriate house property
• an adequate motor vehicle

These are not taken into account in the calculation of benefits.

Apart from a few exceptional cases, you will not receive benefits for past periods.

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To the local social welfare office

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• You are in need of assistance, i.e. you cannot fully cover your one-off needs from your own financial means and resources, and
• you
  • have reached the age limit for the standard old-age pension or
  • are over 18 years old and unable to work because you are temporarily or permanently fully incapacitated for work. This is the case if you are unable to work regularly for at least 3 hours a day under the usual conditions of the general labor market for more than 6 months, or
  • are under 15 years old and live
    • together with persons who themselves receive social assistance under SGB XII, for example with your parents, or
    • in a household with your grandparents or in the care of relatives, without being granted benefits from economic youth welfare.
• You are not a student or trainee.
• You do not receive:
  • Citizen's allowance, i.e. basic income support for jobseekers in accordance with the Second Book of the German Social Code (SGB II) or
  • benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act.

• Objection
• Action before the social court

If you want to claim one-off benefits, you should

• apply for benefits first and
• wait for the notification of approval,

before you spend any money. This is the only way to ensure that your one-off needs are eligible for reimbursement.

If you receive basic income support in old age and in the event of reduced earning capacity, you must even apply for benefits for one-off needs.

• The processing time depends on the individual case. The responsible social welfare office will take care of the processing as quickly as possible. You can shorten the processing time if you submit all documents to the social welfare office promptly and in full.

There are no costs.

There are no indications or special features.

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