Apply for a residence entitlement certificate

• You are looking for accommodation.
• You and your household members do not exceed the relevant income limit.

The annual income is calculated separately for each person belonging to the household.

The annual income includes, regardless of whether this income is taxable or tax-exempt:

• in the case of non-self-employed work, the gross annual earnings less the income-related expenses recognised for tax purposes
• in the case of self-employment, also in agriculture and forestry or in a business enterprise, the tax-recognised profit
• in the case of renting and leasing as well as capital assets, the excess of the income over the tax-recognised income-related expenses
• Income from pensions and annuities less tax-recognised income-related expenses
• tax-exempt income, e.g. unemployment benefit, short-time allowance, transitional allowance, insolvency allowance, integration assistance and benefits to secure subsistence under the Second Book of the Social Code ("Hartz IV")

In the case of single parents, the annual income is to be reduced by the tax relief amount if their household includes at least one child for whom they are entitled to an allowance or child benefit.

Note: In the case of legal maintenance obligations, separation or divorce maintenance, as well as child maintenance:

• in the case of the recipient of maintenance, as income in the full amount in each case
• in the case of the person liable to pay maintenance, child maintenance up to € 3000 per year per child and separation or divorce maintenance up to € 6000 per year

are to be taken into account.

For the total income of the household, the annual incomes of the individual household members are added together.