Even without Work: Bundesfinanzhof Makes It Easier for Foreigners to Obtain Child Benefit
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In Germany, EU foreigners should also be entitled to child benefit without work. The Bundesfinanzhof has clarified this in two judgments. The decision is taken in the middle of a political debate about increasing child benefit payments abroad.
The Bundesfinanzhof makes it easier for EU citizens without work to obtain child benefit in Germany. Maintenance, parental allowance and child supplement count as sufficient means of subsistence.
2.7 million EU citizens work in Germany, pay taxes and social security contributions. For this they also receive fair children's allowance, just like everyone else. Only about 1 percent of the total child benefit goes to accounts abroad at all. Wagenknecht still rushes against these families, even with old numbers. And far too many media just write it off. So easy... Read more You also pay taxes here: Wagenknecht rushes against 1 percent in chil…
Berlin, 13 November 2026. The Bundesfinanzhof has facilitated the entitlement of children's allowances to economically inactive EU citizens. According to the rulings, the examination of sufficient means of subsistence can take into account, among other things, parental allowance, maintenance advance and child supplement. Thus, state benefits can contribute as a result to justifying the entitlement to another state benefit. Whether the conditions…
Two foreign mothers do not receive German child benefits because they do not work here. Now, the Supreme Financial Court makes it clear which conditions must actually be met for a claim.
EU citizens living in Germany can already be entitled to child benefit if they have sufficient health insurance coverage and means of subsistence for their children. Employment or economic activity in Germany does not have to be proven for the claim, the Bundesfinanzhof (BFH) in Munich decided in two judgments published on Thursday, 12 November 2026, in Munich (Az.: III R 8/24 and III R 5/25). Parents come from the Czech Republic The first case …
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