Benefits in the event of a need for care for people with statutory accident insurance

Your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will check on its own initiative ("ex officio") whether you are entitled to care benefits.

• The assessment begins as soon as there are indications that you are in need of care.
• Your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will determine the percentage of care dependency
• You will receive a corresponding notification.

You do not have to submit an application. However, you are free to apply for care benefits from your social accident insurance institution online or by post.

Online service:

• Call up the online service.
• You will be guided through the process on the accident insurance service portal.
  • If you would like to receive the 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 accident insurance institution.
• 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.

Notification 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 care benefits from the statutory accident insurance from the day you become helpless or in need of care. This means that you

• require a considerable amount of help from other people
  • for the usual and regularly recurring activities of daily living
  • due to the consequences of an insured event
    • accident at work, commuting accident or occupational illness

• You do not need to submit any documents.

There are no costs.

There is no deadline.

• § Section 44 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

Online services available: Yes

There are no indications or special features.

06.01.2023