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Recreational stay in family holiday homes; application for funding

If you would like to travel with your children and decide to stay at a family holiday home, you can receive a grant under certain conditions.

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A family vacation together can - in addition to the necessary health recovery - make a significant contribution to improving the family climate. Relationships between parents, but above all between parents and children, can be strengthened. This can create important and resilient foundations for everyday family life.

Purpose

The purpose of the grant is to enable families in economically difficult situations to spend a vacation together once a year.

Object

Family vacations for recreation in family holiday resorts are eligible for funding.

Beneficiaries

Recipients of grants for family vacations are parents, parents, foster parents, single mothers and fathers and, in justified exceptional cases, grandparents (e.g. if the parents are ill).

Eligible expenses

The expenses for accommodation in a family holiday home are eligible for funding.

Type and amount

The state grants are awarded as fixed-amount funding within the framework of project funding.

The grant can amount to up to EUR 19.50 per eligible child and adult per day of board and up to EUR 25.50 for a child who is not only temporarily physically, mentally or emotionally disabled.

The recipient of the grant must provide at least 10% of the eligible expenditure from its own funds.

Funding for a recreational stay at a family vacation home can be approved if

  • you spend your recreational stay at a family holiday center. Family holiday homes within the meaning of the framework agreement are the facilities listed in Annex 1 to the framework agreement. Recreational stays in private accommodation or other vacation facilities are not funded.
  • you only make a binding booking for the vacation stay at the family holiday home once your application for funding has been received by the Bavarian Family and Social Affairs Center (ZBFS) and you have received confirmation of receipt of the application from the ZBFS.
  • You are a parent, parent, foster parent or single parent with one or more children for whom you receive child benefit. In justified exceptional cases, grandparents with a grandchild or several grandchildren for whom the parents, parent(s), foster parents and single mothers and fathers receive child benefit can also apply for support.
  • Your family has its main residence in Bavaria.
  • Your recreational stay lasts at least 6 board days (up to 14 board days are eligible; arrival and departure count together as one board day).
  • Your annual net income for the previous calendar year prior to the application is below the following maximum income limits
    • for a single parent (with one child): EUR 31,000
    • for both parents (with one child) EUR 34,000
    • these income limits increase by EUR 4,800 for each additional child.

or you receive benefits according to SGB II or XII and housing benefit and/or child supplement.

  • you have not yet received a grant for a vacation stay for this year.
  • you are taking part in a parent and family education program during your vacation

  • current proof of child benefit receipt (e.g. a copy of the last bank statement with the name of the account holder or notification of receipt)

    Only the name of the account holder, the date on which the child benefit was booked, the amount of child benefit and the purpose of the child benefit must be shown on the account statement. All other data on the account statement may be blacked out.

  • complete income tax assessment for the previous year before the application (a wage tax certificate alone is not sufficient)

    If you are not assessed for income tax or if a corresponding income tax assessment has not yet been issued, the income to be offset is determined using a corresponding income questionnaire (see page 7 of the online application or page 4 of the application form).

  • if you are receiving benefits according to SGB II and XII at the time of application: current notification of benefits
    (e.g. notification of receipt of unemployment benefit II, social assistance or entitlement to child supplement and/or housing benefit in place of the tax assessment notice or income questionnaire)

You can apply online or in writing to the Zentrum Bayern Familie und Soziales (ZBFS) for funding for a recreational stay at a family holiday home:

  • Once the application and the relevant documents have been received, the basic entitlement will be checked and you will receive notification of whether funding will be granted and, if so, how much it will be.
  • Together with the notification, you will receive a "Confirmation" form and a "Declaration by the Grant Recipient" form.
  • The "Confirmation" form is to be completed by the family holiday home at the end of your vacation, the declaration of the recipient of the grant is to be completed by yourself.
  • Please send both forms together with the invoice from the family holiday center to the ZBFS immediately after your vacation. It is sufficient to submit a copy of the invoice. The original invoice will only be returned on request.
  • After receipt of the two forms and the invoice from the family holiday center, the use of the grant will be checked and paid out to you in the amount due.

  • Application procedure: none
  • Appeal proceedings with negative outcome: minimum fee plus expenses (postal delivery certificate) currently EUR 29.11
  • Withdrawal proceedings: Minimum fee plus expenses (postal delivery certificate) currently EUR 19.11

  • State funding can only be granted if the application for funding is received by the ZBFS before the family vacation home is booked. Funding will only be provided for stays for which no booking has yet been made with the family holiday center at the time of application. A non-binding reservation with the family holiday home is permitted, but a booking may only be made after the ZBFS has confirmed receipt of the application.
  • The application should be submitted at least 3 weeks before the start of the family vacation.
  • The "Confirmation" and "Declaration by the recipient of the grant" forms and the invoice from the family holiday center must be submitted within three months of the end of the approved travel period.

The average processing time for your application is approx. 3 weeks.

In individual cases, processing may take longer.

If the "Confirmation" and "Declaration by the recipient of the grant" forms and the invoice from the family holiday center are not submitted within three months of the end of the approved travel period, the grant can no longer be paid out.

(Optional) appeal procedure

Status: 01.07.2025
Editorially responsible for prodecure description: Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Familie, Arbeit und Soziales
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