Housing benefit application


Housing benefit is intended to ensure adequate and family-friendly housing.

It is paid as a subsidy towards the rent (rent subsidy) or towards the encumbrance (encumbrance subsidy) for owner-occupied housing.


Housing benefit calculator

Necessary documents

  • Application for housing benefit
  • See "Notes on the income to be declared"

Legal basis

  • Housing Benefit Act

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