Support for returning to work for people with statutory accident insurance

You do not have to submit an application. Your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will check possible claims on its own initiative ("ex officio") and contact you.

• After reporting an accident at work that threatens to permanently restrict your ability to carry out your previous activity, the rehab manager will contact you.
• He or she will discuss with you and, if you agree, your employer the further options for maintaining your job.
• If you are no longer able to carry out your previous job, even with aids or support, he or she will discuss further alternatives with you.
• If the problems at work only occur at a later date and no current medical treatment is required, contact your rehab manager.

You can contact your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund online or by post.

Online service:

• Call up the online service.
• You will be guided through the process on the accident insurance service portal.
• You can log in.
  • If you would like to receive a reply from your Berufsgenossenschaft or accident insurance fund in the mailbox of your BundID account or My Company Account, you must have an account and authenticate yourself.
  • If you would like to receive the reply by post, you can continue without registering.
• Select your responsible employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund or find them using the industry search.
• Upload the required documents.
• Complete the online form and send it off.
• Your notification will be automatically forwarded to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
• You will receive feedback via the desired channel.

Online service of your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund:

• If you have access to the portal of your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund, you can also submit the notification electronically there if necessary.

Message by post:

• Send an informal letter to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
• Make sure you provide the required information and enclose the necessary documents.

• You have had a recognized accident at work or on the way to work.
• You suffer from a recognized occupational disease.
• You can only carry out your previous activity to a limited extent or no longer at all due to the consequences of the accident at work or occupational illness.

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There are no costs.

There is no deadline.

• § Section 35 of the Seventh Book of the German Social Code (SGB VII)
• §§ Sections 49 to 63 of the Ninth Book of the German Social Code (SGB IX)

• Contradiction
  • Detailed information on how to lodge an appeal can be found in the notification from your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.

Forms available: No

Written form required: No

Informal application possible: Yes

Personal appearance necessary: No

Online service available: Yes

06.01.2023