Since June, can apply for students whose parents corona due to the have lost their jobs and therefore can no longer support and have lost your part-time job to study financing, the so-called bridging of the assistance of the Federal Ministry of education and training. To facilitate Online application and to protect the employees in the student works from possible infections, and has established the Deutsche Studentenwerk (DSW) in five weeks, a Portal that is constantly being improved. Meanwhile, the 110,000 applications only for June and July, 2020 received in the 57 student works on-site, as the Secretary-General of the DSW Achim Meyer reported on the Heyde of the F. A., for example.

Heike Schmoll

Political correspondent in Berlin, responsible for the “formation of worlds”.

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Two-thirds of them are already edited, half of them have been approved, representing a total of around eleven million euros. A total of 100 million euros for the bridging of help from June to August of this year. At 15 percent of the applications Demands are necessary. It documents or uploaded documents that were missing were not visible. About a third of the tested applications does not meet the eligibility requirements. Many could not prove their pandemic-related emergency, because it was already very bad and their study financing was fragile. You are advised by Corona is still in a difficult situation.

Meanwhile, there are on the application page, also an explanatory video, after some students had complained that they were told about a rejection exactly why the application was rejected, and therefore also when next Time in August not improved on could make.

Only pandemic-related emergency counts

However, also this technical Problem has now been resolved, because in a small box, the refusal will be justified, said Meyer auf der Heyde. “It is important that the students inform me in advance well, for example via the provided Online FAQs and technical notes before you start the application.” Required full Bank statements for the previous months, so back to the last input of the in the meantime, loss of revenue, in February or March, the pandemic-related emergency started, and not necessarily up to the day before the submission of the application, so be sure the account statement or of the complete sales verification for the month of July.