When do I receive a training allowance?

For the education of your adult child, you can deduct an allowance of 1,200 Euro per year (until 2022: 924 Euro) from your total income. The following conditions must be met:

• Your child is over 18
• Your child is in school or vocational training
• You are entitled to child benefit or the child allowance for the child
• Your child lives outside your household.

The training allowance is not granted for the whole year, but monthly. This means that for each month in which the above conditions are not met, the training allowance is reduced by one twelfth. The child's income has been irrelevant for the granting of the training allowance since 2012.

You will also receive the training allowance if your child is in a boarding school. If you and your partner are not assessed together, you and your partner are each entitled to half of the training allowance. However, this division can be changed upon joint application by the parents (in the child form).