Overview
- The Mainz Administrative Court dismissed the 50-year-old plaintiff’s suit and confirmed the housing-benefit denial in a ruling published Monday that is now final.
- Authorities said he had studied across roughly 26 years and 52 semesters with repeated program changes and far exceeded the standard period without completing required work.
- The court held the March 2024 Wohngeld application was abusive because he was not pursuing studies seriously or in a goal-directed way and no timely degree was to be expected.
- Judges stressed that employable applicants must take reasonable work to increase income and found he had failed to do so.
- The plaintiff had cited system changes, the pandemic, health issues and poor resources, but records showed four leave semesters, prior claims of being near completion, and earlier Wohngeld of up to about €200 per month from December 2018 to March 2024.