BAföG - Vocational preparation year (BVJ)
Are you attending a vocational preparation year and would like to apply for training assistance?
Description
If you are attending the vocational preparation year, you may be eligible for training assistance (BAföG).
If you live with your parents, there is no entitlement.
If you do not live with your parents, the maximum monthly basic requirement is 666 euros.
If you are not covered by family health and long-term care insurance (with proof!), this amount may increase.
Prerequisites
- You must attend a vocational preparation year.
- you do not live with your parents or one of your parents and the journey to the intended training centre is more than 2 hours (outward and return journey combined) from your parents' or one of your parents' place of residence.oryou
- run your own household and are married or in a civil partnership. oryou
- run your own household and were married or in a civil partnership. oryou
- run your own household and live with at least one child.
Your parents' income is taken into account in the calculation.
Required documents
You must present the following documents:
- Copy of passport as an EU citizen or residence permit as a non-EU citizen
- Form 1 (application for educational support, curriculum vitae: please fill out without gaps and to the month from the end of primary school)
- Form 2 (school certificate): completed by your school
- Certificate of your health and long-term care insurance (if you do not have family insurance)
- Copy of your tenancy agreement (if you do not live with your parents)
- Form 3 (declaration of income from your parents and, if applicable, spouse* or partner*): from both parents and, if applicable, spouse* or partner* based on their income from the calendar year before last
- Income tax assessment notice(s) from both parents and, if applicable, spouse or partner from the calendar year before last
- School or study certificate or training contract from your siblings
You can find the forms under the heading "Forms & Links".