Applying for pension compensation for surviving spouses from statutory accident insurance in the event of remarriage
Description
As a widow or widower and registered partner, you will receive a survivor's pension from the statutory accident insurance in the event of death as a result of an insured event.
If you remarry as a surviving dependant or enter into a new registered civil partnership, the surviving dependant's pension granted will be settled.
You will receive 24 times your monthly pension as a settlement.
The calendar months worked as part of a survivor's pension with a fixed term in advance will be offset against the settlement amount.
If you have already received a pension settlement on remarriage or a new registered civil partnership and your marital status has changed again, please contact your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund. They will advise you on possible benefit entitlements.
- You must be entitled to survivors' benefits from the statutory accident insurance.
- You have remarried or formed a new civil partnership in accordance with the Civil Partnership Act.
- Marriage certificate (family register) or
- Civil partnership certificate in accordance with the Civil Partnership Act
There are no costs.
There is no deadline.
- 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
Online services available: Yes
If you receive a survivor's pension from your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund, you must state that you have remarried or are in a new civil partnership.
You can apply for a survivor's pension online or by post.
Online service:
- Call up the online service.
- You will be guided through the process on the accident insurance service portal.
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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.
Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS)
- Abfindung einer Witwen- oder Witwerrente aus der gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung bei Wiederheirat Bewilligung
Remark: Anzeige der Leistung im Ursprungsportal
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