Housing benefit negative certificate

As a recipient of housing benefit, you will need a negative certificate if you move house.

Description

When moving house

As a housing benefit recipient, you will need a negative certificate if you move to another housing benefit office and apply for housing benefit there. This certificate is intended to avoid double payments from different housing benefit offices. It will be issued on request by the housing benefit authority responsible until then.

Miscellaneous

In individual cases, negative certificates can also be issued or requested for other reasons (e.g. for submission to the Foreigners Office).

You only need a negative certificate for submission to the Foreigners Office if you are applying for a settlement permit or if the certificate has been expressly requested by the Foreigners Office.

Legal basis

§ Section 22 Housing Benefit Act

Landeshauptstadt München

Sozialreferat
Fachbereich Wohngeld

Postal address

Landeshauptstadt München
Sozialreferat
Fachbereich Wohngeld

Werinherstraße 89
81541 München

Address

Werinherstraße 87
81541 München

Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 8.30 am to 12 noon,
Wednesday afternoon from 3 to 5 pm

Waiting numbers are generally issued until 11.30 a.m.; if there is a high volume of customers, only until 11 a.m. and Wednesday afternoons until 4.30 p.m.

Contact form Housing benefit negative certificate

Personal consultations are only possible after prior appointment by telephone for urgent exceptional cases.
Telephone: 089 233-49250.

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