Court Allows Repayment of Excessive Heating Cost Subsidies

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A woman from the Lüneburg district received heating cost subsidies from the job center for years because she was dependent on basic social security benefits. She usually submitted her heating oil bills and then received the subsidy. However, in the spring of 2019, an error occurred. Instead of a lump sum based on her annual statement, the job center transferred €480 to her monthly payments over several months. In the end, the overpayment amounte…

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Notices from the job center should be read carefully – this also applies to heating cost subsidies. A woman in the Lüneburg district received monthly payments that were intended as a one-time payment. This is now coming back to haunt her.

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The Lower Saxony-Bremen State Social Court has ruled that job centers may reclaim heating cost subsidies paid in error. The court in Celle announced this on Tuesday. In this specific case, a woman from the Lüneburg district received €480 per month instead of a lump sum payment due to an error, resulting in an overpayment of €3,600. The plaintiff argued that, as a legal layperson, she could not have recognized the errors and was not required to r…

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The Landessozialgericht (LSG) Niedersachsen-Bremen has decided that a job center may claim back too much paid heating costs subsidies if the authorisation was initially only granted provisionally. Such provisionality does not justify protection of confidence.