Life situations
Birth
Are you expecting a baby? Get information on maternity protection during your pregnancy, read all about the child-raising allowance during parental leave and get an overview of other financial assistance available.
Recognition of paternity of a child born out of wedlock is possible even before the birth of the child. You can find information on this in the aspect of daily life "Family and Children".
To the procedures and services
- Apply for a birth certificate
- Apply for a registration certificate
- Apply for a state family pass
- Apply for a subsidy for multiple births
- Apply for child allowance as an electronic income tax deduction feature
- Apply for child supplement
- Apply for household help in the event of illness or pregnancy
- Apply for housing benefit
- Apply for maintenance advance
- Apply for medical preventive care and rehabilitation measures for mothers and fathers
- Apply for parental allowance
- Birth abroad - applying for entry in the German register of births
- Children's passport - application is no longer possible since 1 January 2024
- Course of study - applying for leave of absence
- Declare paternity and have it notarised
- Federal Foundation "Mother and Child" - Apply for benefits
- Hebammenhilfe in Anspruch nehmen
- Landesstiftung "Familie in Not" - Apply for benefits
- Maternity pay
- Mutterschaftsgeld beantragen (gesetzlich Versicherte)
- Mutterschaftsgeld für nicht gesetzlich Versicherte beim Bundesversicherungsamt beantragen
- Passport - applying for the first time for the child
- Register the birth in a public or private clinic or facility with the registry office
- Report home birth to the registry office
- Reporting the employment of a pregnant or breastfeeding woman
- Schwangerschaftsvorsorge-Untersuchung wahrnehmen
- Sorgeerklärungen abgeben
- STÄRKE state programme - information for parents
- Take advantage of early detection examinations for children and adolescents
- Take advantage of early support for preschool children
Contact
Bürger- und Standesamt (Bürgeramt)
eMail buergeramt@heidenheim.de
Telefon (0 73 21) 3 27-33 42
Fax (0 73 21) 3 23-33 32