Apply for a senior citizen annual ticket (DeutschlandTicket) when you return your driving license

Older citizens in the state capital Stuttgart can voluntarily hand in their driving license to
.

In return, they can obtain a free DeutschlandTicket from
Verkehrs-Verbund und Tarif-Verbund Stuttgart.
The abbreviation for this is VVS.

Various transport companies belong to the VVS

• The ticket allows you to travel on the entire VVS network.
  
• The ticket is valid for one year.
  
• The ticket is electronic and is the same size as your ID card.

Note:
The state capital Stuttgart and the VVS transport companiesonly pay for the DeutschlandTicket for one year.

The offer is for these persons:

• Persons with main residence in Stuttgart
• Persons 65 years and older
• Persons aged 60 and over who already receive a pension
  

  You must show a pension certificate.

  The offer is for customers of VVS.
  But the offer is also for people,
  who are not yet customers of VVS.

You would like to hand in your driver's license
and get the senior year ticket for it?

Then you will get a special order form for the Senior-Year-Ticket from the driving license office of the city of Stuttgart.

And you will get a second form.
The second form is called "Waiver of Driving Permit".
With this form you confirm:
I am surrendering my driver's license.
I am then no longer allowed to drive myself.

You can also say:
I surrender my driving permit.
But I want to keep my driver's license.

This means the then only card.
Then your driver's license will be invalidated.
For example, a corner will be cut off.
Or a hole is made in it.

So one can recognize:
You no longer have a driving permit.
You are no longer allowed to drive yourself.

You fill out the order form.
And you fill out the waiver.

Then you hand in both forms together with your driver's license
at the driver's license office.

The staff at the driver's license office will forward your order form
to Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG.

You cannot apply for the ticket at the Bürger-Büro.

Are you already a VVS subscription customer?
Then you must cancel your subscription at the end of your subscription contract.

Which documents do you need?

You must hand in these documents at the driver's license office.
You can go there in person.
And you can send the documents by mail.

• The waiver
  

You must sign the waiver.

• the order form
  

You must fill in all the information.
And you must sign the order form.

A copy of your pension certificate or

• A copy of your pension statement

A passport photo of you

Do you already have a ticket subscription?
Then you do not need to submit a photo.

• Your real driver's license
• A copy of your identity card or
  
• a copy of your passport

Here you can download the forms.
The forms are not in plain language.

The project started on October 1, 2020.
The first subscription tickets have been available since November 1, 2020.

Do you submit the order form by the 10th day of the month?
Then your Senior Annual Ticket is valid from the following month.

Example:
You submit the order form on March 7.
Then your Senior Annual Ticket is valid from April 1.
You submit the order form on March 14.
Your Senior Annual Ticket will then only be valid from May 1.

The project ends on December 31, 2025.
This means:
The last subscription tickets for this offer will be available on December 10, 2025.

You can use the Senior Annual Ticket free of charge for one year.
You do not have to pay anything in the first year.
From the second year you have to pay for the ticket yourself.
You do not want this?
Then you have to cancel the ticket in time.
You have to cancel the ticket one month before the end
of the 12 months.
You can cancel the ticket via the Internet.
To do so, click on the link: Cancel subscription (opens in a new tab)
. You can also cancel the ticket in writing.
.

Send a letter to this address:

Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG
P.O. Box 80 10 06
70510 Stuttgart, Germany.

The cancellation must be received by Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG one month before the end of the contract
.

Do you not cancel the subscription in time?
Then you have to pay the ticket for the second year yourself.
You can also cancel this ticket one month before the end of the contract.

You can get more information about the offer here:

Telephone numbers can be found here:  service-call-numbers (opens in a new tab)

Are you taking advantage of the offer?
Then become an SSB subscription customer.

You can download a summary of the information here.
The information is not in plain language.

•  Information about the senior ticket PDF-File 153,38 kB

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