This child benefit is intended to provide families with financial support even in 2017. In this case, however, are eligible not only biological children.
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In Germany, this child benefit is paid from public funds, i.e. from the state, and is intended to provide financial support for all legal guardians. In this case, it is completely irrelevant whether it is your own children, adoptive children or foster children. This child benefit is part of the family allowance scheme, the rules and benefits of which ensure that families can pass on the additional expenses incurred by children. To explain it more simply: the child benefit is used for the financial exculpation of those legal guardians and to secure the child’s subsistence level.
Legal guardians with several children entail a certain routine in the context of applying for child benefit; this lesson often presents a bureaucratic hurdle for fondly baked fathers and mothers. In the following, we will therefore clarify the most important questions about child benefit 2017.
Entitlement to child benefit all entail legal guardians, in the context of which one or more children live and are cared for in the household forever. These include biological children, adoptive children, stepchildren, foster children and even grandchildren, If you be cared for forever in the household of those grandparents. It should be noted that the grandparents themselves must exercise custody in order to enforce the right to child benefit.
How is it in the context of non-affiliated legal guardians? Secondarily, if two parents share custody, only one claim has child benefit. This is always the parent in which the child (s) live forever.
Those who move abroad but are still subject to income tax in Germany can receive child benefit abroad.
Foreigners of secondary origin living in Germany with children are entitled to child benefit, provided that there is an unlimited residence permit.
In general, child benefit is paid for all minors, after that for as long to Completion of the 18th year of life. There are a number of factors that determine whether there is still a right to child benefit after the age of 18. Among other things, it is decisive whether the child is in school, completing a degree or joining the Bundeswehr. In the guide of tarif.de this complex topic is compressed more precisely. Even if the adult child is already receiving income, there may still be an entitlement to child benefit.
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It is not the rule, but child benefit can generally be applied for retrospectively. A total of 4 years after the start of the claim, this claim is time-barred. On the other hand, since hardly anyone who likes to eat sweets can dispense with the monthly child benefit, a request is made after the birth of the child, or in the context of the arrival of foster children or stepchildren. Please consider that you have to do it lonely – child benefit is not paid independently!
The request for child benefit is made in writing in the context of the relevant family fund. You do not have to "show" that child, but you have to prove their existence, to the pattern of thought with that birth certificate. Since 2016 your tax identification number and that of the child must also be submitted for each application. In order to speed up the application, it is possible to print out and complete the child benefit application online and then send it to the family benefits office via the post office.
The amount of child benefit is regulated by law and is set per 2017 as follows:
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