Apply for benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act

The following benefits are possible:

• Basic benefits to cover the necessary requirements for food, accommodation, heating, clothing, healthcare and household consumer goods as well as to cover personal needs in daily life
• Benefits in the event of illness, pregnancy and childbirth
• other benefits

You receive these benefits in the form of benefits in kind and/or cash benefits or via a payment card.

There may be restrictions, for example if you

• are obliged to leave the country and have not left Germany for reasons for which you are responsible, despite a fixed departure date and a fixed possibility of leaving the country
• are obliged to leave the country or have been tolerated and have entered the country in order to receive benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act
• are obliged to leave the country or have been tolerated and for reasons for which you are responsible, measures to terminate your stay cannot be enforced
• are in possession of a residence permit or have submitted a subsequent or second application for asylum and do not fulfil certain obligations to cooperate in the asylum procedure
• deliberately or negligently fail to declare existing assets or fail to report changes in your financial circumstances immediately
• are in possession of a residence permit or are obliged to leave the country and another country is responsible for carrying out your asylum procedure in accordance with the Dublin III Regulation and your deportation to this country has been ordered by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
• refuse a job opportunity or a refugee integration measure without justification despite being able to work.

The entitlement to benefits ends

• upon departure or
• at the end of the month in which the Condition for benefits ceases to apply.