Family allowances - Key for Mobility

Are you a EU citizen, live in Germany and have children under the age of 18 or 25 living in your household? Then you are basically entitled to child benefit.

Child benefit is paid for children – regardless of their nationality – if they are resident or habitually resident in Germany. The same applies if the children live in a member state of the European Union or the European Economic Area or in Switzerland.

The following are considered children in terms of child benefit:

physical and adopted children,
children of the spouse or partner,
foster children

For the first and second child the child benefit is 204 euros, for the third child 210 euros and for each additional child 235 euros.

Children under the age of 18 are entitled to child benefit. If your children are older than 18, but under 25, you are only entitled to child benefit if the child is undergoing initial vocational training. This vocational training can take place in school, university or in a company.