Have my child's maintenance advance checked annually

• You will receive a verification questionnaire from the responsible maintenance advance office, which you must complete truthfully. If you refuse to complete it, your benefit may be withdrawn.
• Send the verification questionnaire informally to the maintenance advance office.
• If you and your (still) spouse live separately, a special check may be necessary, for example with regard to tax classes.
• The Maintenance Advance Office will check your documents and contact you if additional documents need to be submitted.
• You will receive an approval or a rejection.

Maintenance advance office

• You and your child live together in Germany
• You already receive maintenance advance.
• You are a single parent and live with your child in the same household.
• You are raising your child alone and clearly have the primary responsibility for raising your child (no alternating model)
• You are not (newly) married
• The other parent pays your child no maintenance or only irregular maintenance or only maintenance that is less than the maintenance advance
• You can also receive maintenance advance if it is not clear who the father of the child is. It does not matter whether there is a court judgment on paternity or an acknowledgement of paternity before the youth welfare office
• Even if you are widowed, you can still receive advance maintenance payments for your child
• Foreign children are only eligible for certain residence permits
• For children aged 12 to 17, the following additional requirements apply:
  • Your child is not dependent on SGB II benefits
  • Your child would not be dependent on SGB II benefits with the maintenance advance or if you receive SGB II benefits, you must also have your own income of at least EUR 600 gross per month
  • You can also receive maintenance advance if it is not clear who the father of the child is. It does not matter whether there is a court judgment on paternity or an acknowledgement of paternity before the youth welfare office

• Proof of failure to pay maintenance
• Proof of the income of both parents, if applicable

Point 9.12 of the Guidelines on the Implementation of the Advance Maintenance Payment Act (UVG_RL)

• Act on Securing the Maintenance of Children of Single Mothers and Fathers through Maintenance Advances or Loss of Maintenance Payments (Maintenance Advance Act) Section 1 (3) Entitled persons
• Act on Securing the Maintenance of Children of Single Mothers and Fathers through Maintenance Advances or Loss of Maintenance Payments (Maintenance Advance Act) § 2 Scope of maintenance payments
• Act on Securing the Maintenance of Children of Single Mothers and Fathers through Maintenance Advances or Loss of Maintenance Payments (Maintenance Advance Act) § 6 Duty to provide information and notification

• Contradiction
• Compulsory action

There are no indications or special features.