Housing assistance for people with statutory accident insurance

Your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund checks and pays the housing assistance on its own initiative ("ex officio"). An application is therefore not necessary.

However, you can contact your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund online, via the portal of your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund or by post to check your entitlement to housing assistance.

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 Bund-ID 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 logging in.
• 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 are entitled to housing assistance in the event of damage to your health

• as a result of an accident at work, a commuting accident or an occupational disease,
• which lasts for more than 6 months,
• the nature or severity of which makes you dependent on the
  • adaptation of your existing living space for the disabled or
  • the provision of disabled-friendly living space.

You are particularly entitled if you are no longer able to cope with daily life in your apartment or house. This also applies if you

• can only manage your daily life with unreasonable difficulty,
• your current living space, including all the rooms you need, is not accessible or can only be used with unreasonable difficulty, or
• your current or future new workplace can only be reached from your current home with unreasonable difficulty, whether by public transport or by car.

• The documents you need to submit will depend on your personal circumstances, needs and concerns.
• This may include, for example, cost estimates for possible conversions.
• You can find out the details in a personal consultation.

There is no deadline.

• § Section 39 of the Seventh Book of the German Social Code (SGB VII)
• § Section 41 of the Seventh Book of the German Social Code (SGB VII)
• § Section 97 of the Seventh Book of the German Social Code (SGB VII)

• Appeal
• 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

06.01.2023