child benefits

Here you can find the most important information about child benefit. For additional information especially for foreigners coming to Germany please consider the following links.

• As a foreigner living in Germany you are entitled to child benefit if you are a residence permit holder. Foreigners from the EU/EWR-states are always entitled to child benefit because of the agreeement of free movement. But in both cases you need to proof a German residence.
• Entitled to child benefit are the biological children, adopted children or stepchildren, if they life in the same household.
• Child benefit is payed until the age of 18. If your child is doing an apprenticeship or his studies child benefit is payed until the age of 25.
• For the first and the second child you get 192.- Euro per month, for the third child 198.- Euro and for the fourth and each additional child 223.- Euro per month.

Important links

• www.kindergeld.org: here you get essential information about child benefit.
• Further information and help to apply for child benefit: Familienkasse.
• Further information for foreigners: www.kindergeld.org/kindergeld-fuer-auslaender
• Here you can apply for child benefit: Kindergeldantrag online.