District: Mitte
Support for single mothers and fathers
Raising a child alone is usually a difficult situation. This is exacerbated if your child doesn't receive at least the minimum child support from the other parent, or if it isn't paid on time. To improve this situation for you and your child, there is the child support advance payment.
Who receives the child support advance?
- Every child to whom all of the following apply is entitled to maintenance advance payments:
- A parent is not considered a single parent if they are married and not permanently separated, or if they live together with the other parent without being married or in a registered civil partnership.
- Residence or habitual abode in Germany
- lives with a single parent who is single, widowed, divorced or permanently separated from their spouse
- does not receive sufficient or regular child support from the other parent in the amount of the minimum child support
For children up to the age of 12, the income of the single parent is not relevant.
For children over the age of 12, the following entry requirements must be met:
- the child is not dependent on benefits under the Second Book of the Social Code (SGB II) or
- The child's need for assistance can be avoided through advance maintenance payments, or
- The single parent receiving benefits under SGB II must earn at least 600 euros gross per month.
In addition to German children and their single parents, children with foreign nationality who live in Germany can also claim maintenance advances under certain conditions.
