Category: BAföG & Finanzen

  • Changed responsibilities at the BAföG office

    Changed responsibilities at the BAföG office

    Please check whether your contact person at the BAföG office has changed. Since February 21, 2023, the BAföG counsellors at the Department for Grants of Studentenwerk Leipzig have partly got new responsibilities. Students that are planning to contact the BAföG office should first check on our homepage whether their previous contact person is still the same. 

  • Child benefit increase from January 1, 2023

    Child benefit increase from January 1, 2023

    Until now, the first and second child each received 219 euros, the third 225 euros and the fourth 250 euros. That will change as of January 2023. How much will families with children be relieved by the increase? For the first and second child: increase of 31 euros per month. For a family with two…

  • Turn of the year 2022/23: These are our opening and office hours

    Turn of the year 2022/23: These are our opening and office hours

    Over Christmas and the turn of the year, we have changed opening hours in our Mensas and Cafeterias as well as office hours at the Studentenwerk Leipzig. Mensas & Cafeterias The opening hours can be found on the website of the respective institution. Mensacardservice in the SSZ: last office hours 20.12.2022 // first office hours 05.01.2023…

  • Information on the licence fee

    Information on the licence fee

    First own accommodation – what students need to know about the licence fee. Students moving into their first own flat, a shared flat or a student hall of residence at the start of the winter semester 2022/23 may also have to pay the licence fee for ARD, ZDF and Deutschlandradio for the first time. Regardless of…

  • Welcome to winter semester 2022/23!

    Welcome to winter semester 2022/23!

    The new semester is about to begin: We are pleased to welcome all Leipzig students – especially first-semester students and new international students! The Studentenwerk Leipzig welcomes all new students and returning students for the winter semester 2022/23! For most of our counselling services, students can choose between face-to-face appointments with prior booking and video…

  • Information on the heating cost allowance and the energy price flat rate

    Information on the heating cost allowance and the energy price flat rate

    As questions about the heating cost allowance and the flat-rate energy fee keep coming in, we have summarised some basic information and further links. The heating cost subsidy and the energy price flat rate (EPP) are different allowances. Therefore, if you are eligible for both subsidies, you can also receive both subsidies. Heating cost subsidy…

  • 30 Years of Job Placement – Review & Anniversary Campaign

    30 Years of Job Placement – Review & Anniversary Campaign

    Anniversary event on 5 July between 2 and 4 p.m. in front of the job office at Goethestraße 6.

  • BAföG increases as of winter semester 2022/23

    BAföG increases as of winter semester 2022/23

    Increasing BAföG rates and allowances in sight: Who will benefit from the upcoming BAföG amendment?

  • 30 years Student Job Office – invitation to the anniversary celebration

    30 years Student Job Office – invitation to the anniversary celebration

    Our Student Jpb Office celebrates its 30th anniversary on 05 July 2022. In July, our Student Job Office celebrates its 30th anniversary! Shortly after the re-foundation, the idea of a student job centre was already in place at the Studentenwerk Leipzig. In 1992, the job agency – as we know it today – was founded and…

  • 9-Euro-Ticket reduces the Semester ticket fee

    9-Euro-Ticket reduces the Semester ticket fee

    Students of the summer semester 2022 will receive a retroactive reduction of the semester ticket fee due to the implementation of the 9-Euro-Ticket. Due to the implementation of the 9-Euro-Ticket in Germany, which was enacted by the Bundestag and Bundesrat, the Semesterticket will be treated as equivalent to the 9-Euro-Ticket and will be valid nationwide…