Housing Allowance: The New Conditions for Entitlement and the Proceedings for Granting It with Reflection of Case-law of the Administrative Courts

The paper deals with one of the core benefits of the state social support in the Czech Republic, the housing allowance. As of year 2022, the range of persons entitled to the housing allowance was expanded and the rules for the formation of the entitlement to it have been modified in the context of the rise in energy prices. The study aims to analyse the new conditions for entitlement to the housing allowance and the individual stages of the proceedings for granting the housing allowance (initiation of the proceedings, application requirements, forms of decision-making on the allowance, possibilities of reviewing the individual forms of decisions). The various aspects of the housing allowance and the decision-making (proceedings) for granting it are approximated in selected decisions of the Czech administrative courts.