Applying for sickness benefit from social compensation
Source: Serviceportal Rheinland-PfalzSocial compensation sickness benefit is a financial safeguard for employees who are temporarily unable to work due to an injury-related illness in order to compensate for the loss of earnings during this time. This also includes injured parties who are not unable to work but who are unable to work full-time due to social compensation sickness treatment.
As an injured person, you can also claim the benefit if you require inpatient treatment due to a recognized consequence of injury. Social compensation sickness benefit does not end before the end of inpatient treatment.
It is a social insurance benefit paid by the statutory accident insurance, health insurance or pension insurance institutions.
You will also receive social compensation sickness benefit if you
- are self-employed as your main occupation and have not made an election declaration to the health insurance fund,
- are employed and have not made an election declaration, and
- are marginally employed, your employment does not give rise to compulsory insurance and you are covered by family insurance.
Full-time self-employed persons and employees subject to compulsory insurance who are entitled to continued payment of remuneration for less than six weeks can make a declaration of choice according to which membership should include the statutory entitlement to sickness benefit. This entitlement can be supplemented by an optional tariff.
Sickness benefit under the social compensation scheme amounts to 80 percent of regular pay, but may not exceed the lost regular net pay.
Please note that your social compensation provider will decide whether and to what extent you receive support.