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Enter a few details from your letter. We calculate by when your answer must arrive.
Your letter is not in the list? Then we can't calculate the deadline yet. At the end of a Bescheid, the Rechtsbehelfsbelehrung says by when you can respond.
Does the top of the letter say „Widerspruchsbescheid" or „Einspruchsentscheidung"? Then the next step is a court case (Klage), with its own deadline. Get advice soon.
Usually at the top right, next to the town.
The state where the office is. Its address is at the top of the letter.
If you don't know the day, leave this empty. We then count from the date on the letter.
This matters if the letter came very late.
The letter gives this date, for example „bis zum 15.10.2026".