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Field help: (2022) Maintenance period

This text refers to the Steuererklärung 2022. You can find the version for the Steuererklärung 2025 at:
(2025): Maintenance period

Enter here the time period for which you have made maintenance payments.

The maintenance period starts, for example, with the support of

of children when the entitlement to child benefit or child allowance no longer applies and the children are still in need, for example, if the child is unemployed from the age of 21, if the child is in vocational training from the age of 25.
of other persons when they become in need.

Important: As a rule, the support period begins at the earliest with the first maintenance payment. Maintenance payments cannot be carried back to months prior to their payment.

A maintenance payment in January, which is intended to support the maintenance needs of the person entitled to maintenance in the next 12 months, is deductible in full - limited to the maximum amount of maintenance. However, a payment in December is only taken into account at 1/12, i.e. reduced accordingly.

Therefore, it is best to make maintenance payments to dependent family members in January or start with the first payment in this month.

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