You must still be eligible for housing assistance as an applicant. You are eligible for a housing subsidy as:

• Tenant of living space
• Subtenant of living space
• Residents of a cooperative apartment or a boarded apartment
• residents of a home (home residents as defined by the respective state law; this also includes people with disabilities who are not only temporarily admitted to special forms of housing for the provision of integration assistance)
• tenants with similar rights of use, in particular holders of a tenant-like permanent right of residence
• owners of an apartment building (three or more apartments), a commercial building or a commercial enterprise, if you live in this building
• Owners of a one- or two-family house in which you live, but which also contains business premises to such an extent that it can no longer be considered a home of your own
• Owners of a full-time agricultural business whose residential part is not separated from the business part
• women living in women's shelters, even if the remuneration is calculated on a daily basis
• a person who is admitted to homeless shelters or third party housing by the homelessness authority, even if the user fee (which is not, for example, based on the number of days or graded according to adult persons and children) is paid to the homelessness authority

You are eligible for a housing subsidy as:

• Owner of a home or condominium,
• Owners of a small housing estate,
• Owners of a part-time agricultural business,
• the owner of a full-time agricultural business, provided that the residential part and the business part are separated from each other and the residential part is eligible for a housing allowance,
• owners of a permanent right of residence similar to ownership
• holders of hereditary building rights and those who are entitled to the transfer of ownership of the building or dwelling or to the transfer or granting of the hereditary building right.

The owner of the living space must occupy the living space and bear the burden for this.

There is the following information:

In order to prevent or detect the unlawful claiming of housing allowance, the housing allowance authority may regularly check the details of all household members by comparing data - also in automated form - in particular with the data office of the pension insurance. For example, it may compare

• whether Bürgergeld (formerly Arbeitslosengeld II) is being paid during the period in which the housing allowance is being received,
• whether employment subject to compulsory insurance or marginal employment exists
• or the amount of investment income for which an exemption order has been issued.

It is also possible to compare the registration addresses, housing status and dates of change of address with the registration office. It is also possible to call up accounts at the Federal Central Tax Office. Suspected cases of fraud are always reported to the public prosecutor's office. Through these checks, the housing allowance authority can determine, for example,

• whether housing benefit is being received more than once,
• whether transfer payments leading to exclusion from housing benefit are being received at the same time,
• whether the information provided in the housing benefit application is correct
  • income from gainful employment,
  • income from one or more pensions,
  • income from capital gains (interest or dividends),
• whether, in the case of original unemployment, the payment of unemployment benefits has been discontinued (for example, due to taking up a new gainful activity), and
• whether the original dwelling for which housing benefit was paid is still actually being used.

The review is permitted up to the expiry of ten years after notification of the associated housing allowance.