Reapplying for a statutory accident insurance pension due to aggravation after a settlement

You can apply to have your pension reinstated online or by post.

Online service:

• Call up the online service.
• You will be guided through the procedure 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 received a settlement
• After the settlement, you have become a seriously injured person. This means that your reduction in earning capacity has increased to at least 50 percent.
• Your reduction in earning capacity has increased:
  • as a result of a new insured event, for example an accident at work, or
  • due to an aggravation of the consequences of previous insured events.

• Medical documents as proof of serious injury
• Documents on other insured events
• Your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will tell you what else may be needed.

There is no deadline.

• § Section 77 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

12.01.2023