Granting sickness assistance
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzFor
- Children, adolescents and young adults who are accommodated outside the family within the framework of child and youth welfare,
as well as for
- Mothers or fathers caring for a child under the age of six alone
Sickness assistance - comparable to the benefits of the statutory health insurance fund - applies if there is no other health insurance cover or if it does not fully cover the necessary needs. This means that if these children, adolescents or young adults become ill, the responsible youth welfare office ensures that the costs are covered.
Children, adolescents and young adults who
- living in a foster family
- live in an inpatient facility of child and youth welfare ("children's home")
- in an intensive socio-pedagogical individual care are
- live as a mentally handicapped child or adolescent in a foster family or in an inpatient child and youth welfare facility
- have been taken into custody by the Youth Welfare Office (also temporarily)
- are accommodated in socio-pedagogically accompanied forms of housing during participation in school or vocational training measures or during vocational integration
Mothers or fathers who:
- have to care for a child under the age of six alone and live with the child in a common form of living for mothers/fathers/children, and
Children who
- live together with their mother or father in a common form of living for mothers/fathers and their children