Housing benefit eligibility and exhaustion of administrative remedies as prerequisite for constitutional individual complaint

**Court Order:** The Constitutional Court dismissed the application for legal aid as manifestly hopeless, upholding the lower court's denial of aid; no constitutional violation was found in the procedural handling. **Dispute and Facts:** The applicant, a recipient of housing benefits, sought legal aid to file an individual constitutional complaint challenging a provision that denied them a specific housing benefit increase due to a perceived excessive income level. **Legal Basis:** The court applied the doctrine of *procedural necessity* and *due process*, determining that the applicant had not exhausted the ordinary administrative and administrative court remedies. The decision rests on the principle that a constitutional complaint for the repeal of a law is admissible only when the petitioner cannot adequately assert their rights through the available regular judicial channels (*Verwaltungsrechtsweg zumutbar*), thereby requiring the exhaustion of the administrative path before seeking constitutional review.