(2023)
How do I secure child benefit if my child does not get a training place?
Recently, the Federal Fiscal Court ruled that there is no entitlement to child benefit if a child cannot start their training due to illness and the end of the illness is not foreseeable (BFH ruling of 12.11.2020, III R 49/18).
Important: If training periods are interrupted for more than four months, children should definitely register as job-seeking or looking for a training position, and do so as soon as possible after the end or interruption of the respective training. Then the child benefit will also be paid beyond the four-month interruption. A child looking for work is considered until the age of 21, a child looking for a training position until the age of 25.
