Notify change after application or when receiving citizen's allowance
The job centre must be informed of certain changes in your personal/financial circumstances while you are receiving the citizen's allowance.
Responsible authority
Job centre
Details
Prerequisite
Anyone who receives citizen's allowance must inform the job centre immediately of any changes in their personal and/or financial circumstances.
Changes in personal and/or financial circumstances often also affect the entitlement to Citizen's Allowance. It is therefore important to inform the job centre of any changes as soon as possible. Citizen's allowance recipients are legally obliged to do so. If this obligation is breached, it is possible that the wrong amount of citizen's allowance may have been paid out. The citizen's allowance must then be repaid.
Examples of important changes:
- Relocation
- Another person moves in or out of the flat
- Increase/reduction in rent and heating costs
- Commencement/termination of employment
- Increase/decrease in earned income
- Change in employment relationship
- Commencement/termination of self-employment
- Inheritance
- Change of contact details
- Change in bank details
- Change in marital status (marriage, divorce)
- Pregnancy/birth of a child
- Commencement/termination of studies, graduation
- Change of health insurance company
- Death of a member of the community of needs
- Admission to an inpatient facility (e.g. nursing home).
Procedure
The job centre must be informed of the change and the appropriate evidence immediately. The Job Centre can be notified of the change in writing, in person, by telephone or online.
The job centre will check the extent to which the change affects the entitlement to citizen's allowance and will redetermine it if necessary.
Deadlines
The job centre must be informed of any changes immediately
Required documents
In the event of a change, the Job Centre must be provided with the appropriate evidence, such as a current salary certificate.
Costs
none
Processing time
The processing time depends on the scope of the changes and the supporting documents.
Miscellaneous
none
Legal basis
Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB) Erstes Buch (I) - Allgemeiner Teil:
- § 60 Angabe von Tatsachen
Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB) Zweites Buch (II) - Bürgergeld, Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende:
- § 60 Auskunftspflicht und Mitwirkungspflicht Dritter
Verordnung zur Zulassung von kommunalen Trägern als Träger der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende (Kommunalträger-Zulassungsverordnung-KomtrZV)
Release note
Machine generated, based on the German release by: Wirtschaftsministerium Baden-Württemberg, 03.12.2025