The Landwirtschaftliche Alterskasse (LAK) will pay your rehabilitation benefit if at least one of the following points applies to you:

• You have paid contributions to the LAK for 15 years.
• You have paid compulsory contributions to the LAK for 6 calendar months in the last 2 years before submitting your application.
• You have taken up insured employment or self-employment within 2 years of completing your training and have continued to do so up to the date of application or
• You have been incapacitated for work or unemployed following such employment or activity up to the date of application.
• You are already or will become less able to work in the foreseeable future, provided that the waiting period of 5 years has been fulfilled.
• You receive a pension due to reduced earning capacity or
• You receive a widow's or widower's pension due to reduced earning capacity.

The rehabilitation measure applied for should be suitable for this purpose:

• Strengthen your health and
• improve your reduced earning capacity or
• avoid a deterioration.

The following criteria in particular are examined in this context:

• Need for rehabilitation:
  • Your ability to work is impaired and cannot be restored with individual measures such as physiotherapy and occupational therapy.
• Ability to rehabilitate:
  • You are able to bear weight to such an extent that necessary treatments can be carried out.
• Positive rehabilitation prognosis:
  • You are likely to be able to achieve individual rehabilitation goals according to medical assessment.

In addition, there must be no reason for exclusion, such as receipt of an old-age pension from the old-age insurance fund.