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Are you receiving an advance on maintenance and have there been any changes? Report them immediately.

For the entire period of receipt of benefits, you must notify the maintenance advance office of important changes. You must communicate any changes that may be important to the claim or that you have made declarations about in connection with the maintenance advance.

You must report the changes after 14 days at the latest.

Examples of changes:

• Your child no longer lives with you.
• They are moving.
• They get married.
• They move in with the other parent.
• The other parent pays maintenance again or wants to pay maintenance again.
• The previously unknown whereabouts of the other parent will become known to you.
• The other parent has died.
• The child died.
• The child no longer attends school.
• For the child who no longer attends school, the income changes (because, for example, the amount of the training allowance changes).

Notifications to other authorities are not sufficient.

An intentional or negligent violation of these obligations is an administrative offence and can be prosecuted or punished with a fine. In addition, the benefits paid can be reclaimed.

You will receive the maintenance advance for your child if you bring it up in your household without another parent against whom the child is entitled to maintenance. However, this maintenance is not paid by the other parent or the person obliged to pay maintenance, or is paid incompletely or irregularly.

The child's centre of life must clearly be in your household. You must not have married a new partner.

If the eligibility requirements are met, the maintenance advance will be paid to you until your child reaches the age of majority. The limitation on the duration of entitlement (previously a maximum of 72 months) has been lifted.

The amount of the maintenance advance depends on the amount of the minimum maintenance.

If the single parent is entitled to full child benefit, the maintenance advance in Lower Saxony since 1 January 2024 is:

• for children up to 5 years 230.00 Euro per month
• for children from 6 to 11 years 301.00 Euro per month
• for children from 12 to 17 years 395.00 Euro per month

After reaching the age of 12, your child is only entitled to maintenance if one of the following conditions is met:

• You or your child will not receive any citizen's allowance.
• The maintenance advance can avoid your child's need for help.
• They have a gross monthly income of at least 600.00 euros and receive supplementary citizen's allowance.

This ensures that all children receive an advance on maintenance without any gaps if necessary. At the same time, an important incentive is created for households that are not in need of assistance or could become independent of basic security benefits through their own earned income.

The maintenance advance is always paid at the beginning of a calendar month and can be applied for retroactively for one month.

Evidence of any changes that have occurred

• e.g. marriage certificate, divorce decree
• Registration certificate
• If applicable, valid proof of residence permit
• Any maintenance titles/deeds

• They receive an advance on maintenance.
• There are changes.
• You have 14 days to notify a change.

There are no costs.

1. Notification of changes
2. Examination of jurisdiction and the existence of the constituent elements
3. Continued granting of benefits without notice, notice of amendment or rejection
   3a) In the event of intended rejection, hearing before the objection

Depending on the availability of all necessary documents/information and ab the existence of all necessary documents/information, it varies.

You have 14 days to notify a change.

• Maintenance Advance, Notification of Change, Approval
• Regular information is mandatory - Notify all changes immediately:
• Examples of changes: - Child no longer lives with the single parent.
• The single parent moves.
• The single parent is getting married.
• Moving in with another parent
• other parent pays maintenance
• Found the other parent
• other parent has died
• Child has died
• Child finishes school
• Changed income of the child if he or she no longer attends school
• within 14 days
• Notifications to other authorities are not sufficient
• Responsible body: Maintenance Advance Office, local Youth Welfare Office

Maintenance advance office: You can notify the youth welfare office responsible for your place of residence.

• Informal change notification
• Personal appearance is not mandatory, but makes sense in individual cases
• Online services available: Yes, an EFA service (UVO Maintenance Advance Online), roll-out in preparation
• If necessary, other private providers