Supplementary costs: Ralf fights for support from the job center!

Supplementary costs: Ralf fights for support from the job center!

Trier, Deutschland - Ralf, the protagonist of the RTL-Zwei documentary "Hartz and warm", faces an unexpected financial burden. According to his property management, the 57-year-old from Trier must pay an additional payment of 540 euros for additional costs. 'Something can be right in the back and front', Ralf expresses his lack of understanding of the high sum, especially since the calculation relates to the year before the Ukraine conflict. Despite the increased cost of living, Ralf believes that the job center should pay for the additional payment because the warm rent is normally adopted. RTL two showed this situation worthy of discussion in the episode "Hartz and warm-return to Trier-West (2)" on November 26, 2024.

But who bears the costs?

The legal situation enables citizen benefit recipients to apply for the transfer of such additional payments, provided certain requirements are met. According to information from Buergergeld.org , tenants must be in need of help, bypassing their consumption and still living in the apartment for which the aftermath is due. The 57-year-old Ralf and his partner do not know whether they have to pay for the additional financial burden, since the job center does not always come up for ancillary costs according to a cost reduction request if the tenant has not responded sufficiently.

The system can be complicated: If the job center already pays the appropriate costs for accommodation and heating, you may not be obliged to pay additional costs. This could mean that Ralf could get into a financial difficulty. In these tough times when every financial burden becomes a challenge, he may only have the way to apply for an interest -free loan from the authority so as not to lose his apartment, as in the reporting of derwesten.de indicated.