Applying for benefits for participation in working life for persons insured under the statutory accident insurance scheme
Description
If you are no longer able to carry out your previous activity as before due to health difficulties resulting from an accident at work or an occupational disease, you will receive benefits for participation in working life. Benefits that can be provided by your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund are, for example:
- Assistance in resuming or continuing the previous activity
- Support in transferring to another job within the previous company
- Assistance in taking up a job in another company
- retraining
- vocational adjustment, further training and qualification
- Admission to a workshop for people with disabilities
After an accident at work or an occupational disease, the statutory accident insurance shall work with all appropriate means to enable the return to the previous workplace. If a return to the existing job is not possible, work is done to at least maintain the employment relationship with the previous employer. If this is not possible either, efforts are made to ensure rapid and sustainable integration into the general labor market.
In the case of children and adolescents, benefits for participation are also provided in the event of an insurance claim. The aim here is, among other things, to enable the persons concerned to receive a general school education as well as an appropriate occupation or gainful employment.
You do not need to submit an application. Your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will examine possible claims ex officio.
- You have had a recognized accident at work or on the way to work.
- You suffer from a recognized occupational disease.
- You can only perform your previous activity to a limited extent or not at all due to the consequences of the occupational accident or disease.
There are no costs involved.
There is no deadline.
Contact the accident insurance company
Forms available: No
Written form required: No
Informal application possible: Yes
Personal appearance required: No
Online service available: Yes
You do not have to submit an application. Your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will examine possible claims on its own initiative ("ex officio") and contact you.
- After notification of an occupational accident with imminent permanent restriction of the exercise of the previous activity, the rehab manager will contact you.
- She or he will discuss with you and, if you agree, your employer the further options for maintaining your activity.
- If you can no longer perform your previous job, even with aids or support, she or he will discuss the further alternatives with you.
- If the problems at work occur later, without the need for current medical treatment, contact your rehab manager.
You can contact your Berufsgenossenschaft or Unfallkasse online or by mail.
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 the response from your employers' liability insurance association 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 response by mail, you can also proceed without logging in.
- Select your responsible employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund or determine it using the industry search.
- Upload the required documents.
- Fill out the online form and submit it.
- Your report will be automatically forwarded to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
- You will receive a response by the requested method.
Online service 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 mail:
- Contact your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund with an informal letter.
- Make sure you provide the required information and enclose the necessary documents.
Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS)
06.01.2023
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
