Studying at TUM with a family
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Following the changes in 2024, a new income limit for parental allowance will come into force from 1 April 2025. In future, parents will only be entitled to parental allowance if their taxable income in the year before the birth of the child is less than 175,000 euros. This limit applies to couples as well as single parents and for all births from 1 April 2025.
In January 2025 most care benefits will increase by 4.5% in order to provide more relief for people in need of care and their families and to ensure the quality of care. To finance the improvements, the contribution rate for care insurance will also rise by 0.2% to 3.6% at the beginning of the year. More information in the leaflet from the Federal Office of Administration (in German).
Child Benefit is increasing in January 2025 by 5 euros per child to the amount of 255 euros per month. The amounts will be adjusted automatically by the Family Benefits Office and paid in the new totals from January onwards.
Also from the beginning of the year, the immediate supplement is increasing by 5 euros to 25 euros per month, which means that the maximum monthly amount of the Child Allowance will increase to 297 euros per child, with the adjustment taking place automatically.
Further information can be found on the website of the Federal Employment Agency and on the website of the responsible ministry
From the winter semester 2024/25, a leave of absence from study due to maternity/parental leave at TUM is possible for a maximum of 6 semesters per student (NOT per child and NOT per degree program), as long as the youngest child has not yet reached the age of 8. All information about leave of absence
The Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth has announced changes to family benefits for 2024 in the following areas: Child supplement, maintenance advance, child allowance (Kinderfreibetrag), child sick days, parental allowance, citizens' allowance (Bürgergeld) recipients.
Further information on the website of the responsible ministry (in German only)
Information on these changes in plain language (in German only).
Questions and answers on the new parental allowance regulations from April 1, 2024 (in German only).
On 15.07.2022, the 27th BAföGÄndG was published in the Federal Law Gazette. The changes will apply from August/September 2022 for new BAföG approvals, otherwise uniformly from October 2022. By the way, for students with a child, the child supplement will be increased to €160 per month and child.
All changes that come into effect with the implementation of the amendment have been compiled by the Deutsches Studentenwerk here.
The responsibility for processing child benefits for employees and salary recipients of the Free State of Bavaria will be transferred from the State Office for Finance (Landesamt für Finanzen) to the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit). For those entitled to child benefits, there is nothing to be done regarding the further payment of child benefits.
All information can be found on the website of the Familienkasse (in German)
The Bavarian parental allowance can now be applied for online with a digital signature. The online application is made possible by the BayernID based on the electronic ID card. Applicants can use it to authenticate themselves on their cell phones, laptops or other digital devices and submit their application with legal effect. Only birth certificate still needs to be submitted by mail.
Parental allowance Online application
More information on parental allowance on the website of the responsible authority Zentrum Bayern Familie und Soziales (ZFBS).
Information on digitization in the latest video from #SozialKannDigital.
Since 01.01.2018 female students have been included in the scope of the new Maternity Protection Act (Mutterschutzgesetzt) for the first time. This is intended to protect the health of pregnant and nursing students and their children and to enable them to continue their studies without danger. Disadvantages during pregnancy, after childbirth and during the breastfeeding period, which may arise in the context of university education, are to be counteracted.
Further information on maternity protection during your studies can be found on the central TUM website as well as in the Guide to Maternity Protection (english version from 2020) of the responsible ministry.
In Addition to the subsidy for the kindergarden period the Free State of Bavaria introduces the Bavarian Childcare Allowance on January 1st, 2020. It relieves parents of one to two-year-old children with up to EUR 100 per month per child on their parents' childcare contribution for attending a facility or daycare center supported according to the Bavarian Child Education and Care Act (BayKiBiG). The Childcare Allowance is paid only to parents whose income does not exceed a certain income limit.
For more information see the webside of the Zentrum Bayern Familie und Soziales.
With effect from April 1st, 2019, parental contributions for the entire kindergarten period will be subsidised by the Free State of Bavaria with € 100 per child and month. This applies to all kindergartens supported according to the BayKiBiG.
Further information from the Bavarian State Ministry for Family, Labour and Social Affairs.
The new Bavarian Family Allowance will enter into force from September 1st, 2018. The Free State of Bavaria grants parents EUR 250 per month for each child in the second and third year of life and from the third child onwards even EUR 300 per month.
For more information see the website of the Zentrum Bayern Familie und Soziales.