Author: BelinZa

In some cases, municipalities charge high usage fees for accommodation in shared accommodation (GUn). Home Maintenance Refugees are obliged to (co-)pay their accommodation costs if they have their own income (so-called self-payers). The amount of the usage fee often does not depend on the occupancy, the condition of the living space or the number of square meters available, but is set at a flat rate per person.

The costs are sometimes (significantly) higher than for a regular apartment with local rent. This is because many municipalities base the calculation on all costs associated with accommodation (e.g. security service, social care, caretaker, maintenance costs and/or other items). Nevertheless, many self-payers are dependent on shared accommodation, as they cannot find affordable housing on the housing market.

Here are examples of particularly high usage fees:

Statute of the city of Bocholt on the use and user fees of the […] Accommodation for foreign refugees from 28.10.2019, entered into force on 01.12.2019.

The statute of the city of Bocholt shows several categories of GCs, for each of which fees are charged in different amounts. The ancillary costs can be adjusted without the need to amend the articles of association.

In GUn, where sanitary facilities, … Read the rest

Benefits, pension, disability, integration assistance, decision, care allowance, pension, accommodation, court decision, service provider, long-term care insurance, claim, cohabitation, heating, long-term care insurance benefits, disabled people, integration assistance benefits

LSG Munich, judgment of 22.09.2022 – L 4 P 56/21

II. Extrajudicial costs are not to be reimbursed. Findings

The defendant’s obligation to grant care allowance according to care level 3 is in dispute between the parties.

The plaintiff, who was born in 1951, has been mentally disabled since birth. He lives since 27.06.1998 in the Lebensgemeinschaft e.V. M. and lives there in a single room in the house “S.”. The village community M. is open to adults with a mental or multiple disability within the meaning of § 53 Home Maintenance SGB XII (old version) from all over Germany and offers them a second area of life in addition to stationary living (workshop for disabled people with vocational training area or offer for daily organization according to housing and care contract of 30.06.2010). The village community M. describes itself in the contract as an institution of “integration assistance for people with disabilities”, i.e. people who have a right to accompaniment, assistance, help, promotion or care described in SGB IX or … Read the rest