As a student, you can get assistance when it comes to paying your monthly rent. While it may not finance a brand-new bike, the monthly sum can still give you a little more monetary wiggle room. However, there are some requirements you need to meet before you qualify for benefits:
- The residence in question must be a rental
- You need to live in the residence year-round, and it must have its own kitchen or kitchen niche with running water and a functional drain, in order to qualify for benefits.
- You cannot earn more than 133.500 kr. per year.
- You must have a yearly rent of 22.500 kr.
You can also apply for housing benefits if you in a house share and split expenses with others. Benefits will be allocated according to how many m² makes up your residence. For the first person in the household, they can receive benefits for up to 65 m², and for every additional household member, an extra 20 m² is added. That means that two people can receive benefits for up to 85 m² and will have to fund any additional costs themselves.
What should I prepare ahead of time?
When budgeting for housing benefits, you need to provide information regarding your residence, such as rent, living space in square meters, and your sources of income, such as your salary, pension, interest income and others. It might seem like an overwhelming amount of information to type in to get benefits, so here is a list of what you should prepare ahead of time before applying on borger.dk
Your lease: is the most important document, since this contains information regarding the amount of m² of your residence and your maintenance responsibilities. Maintenance responsibilities include, for example, whether you as a tenant need to ensure that the apartment is cleaned and painted upon moving out. This usually also details whether your residence has a kitchen and proper drainage.
Your latest payslip and SU-information: SU (“The Danish students’ Grants and Loans Scheme”) makes up most Danish students’ income and since you must inform Udbetaling Danmark (The Public Benefits Administration) of all your sources of income when applying, it’s important to have both your SU-information and latest payslip on hand.
Interest income and assets: Check your yearly interest income with your bank. If you’ve received an inheritance or you have other significant assets, it should also be included.
Your latest tax assessment notice: You can make things quicker for yourself by re-using the incomes from your latest tax assessment notice. You should keep potential changes in your SU and/or salary in mind however, for example if you’ve changed jobs. You can find your tax assessment notice on skat.dk
Your latest preliminary income assessment: In your latest preliminary income assessment for Skat, you will have informed them of how much you expect to earn this year. You can also find it on skat.dk
If you live with a friend or partner, you also need to type in their yearly income. You should keep in mind that they also need to be logged in to fill out the form.
What if I’m not a Danish citizen?
You don’t need Danish citizenship to apply for housing benefits, but you do need MitID (“My ID”), a form of general digital ID used for digital self-service solutions in Denmark. You can get MitID with a foreign passport or similar ID, or by going to a Citizen Service Centre – you can read more about how you can get MitID as a non-citizen here.
