Apply for blindness benefit
Description
If you are blind or severely visually impaired, you may be entitled to blindness benefit. It is intended to compensate for your additional expenses due to your disability.
From 01.07.2025, the allowance for blindness will be up to 460.44 euros per month for adults and up to 319.76 euros per month for minors.
The severely visually impaired will receive 66.50 euros per month.
Benefits under the State Blindness Benefit Act are independent of income and assets. However, some care insurance benefits are offset against the allowance for the blind. For example, if you receive cash or non-cash benefits for home care or partial or full inpatient care, you will receive less allowance.
This is how much money you will receive:
If you are cared for at home:
- Care level 2
- Adults: 279.08 euros
- Children and young people: 149.40 euros
- Care level 3 to 5
- Adults: 244.59 euros
- Children and young people: 114.91 euros
If you live in a care home:
- If you pay more than half of the care home costs yourself:
- Adults: 424.44 euros
- Children and young people: 294.76 euros
- If you pay less than half of the home costs yourself:
- Adults: 212.22 euros
- Children and young people: 147.38 euros
You can receive blindness benefit if you meet one of the following requirements:
- You are blind.
This means that you cannot see more than 2% (that is 1/50) or less in one eye - even with glasses or a visual aid.
- You have another severe visual impairment,that is so severe that it is as bad as blindness.
- You are severely visually impaired.
This means that you cannot see more than 5% (that's 1/20) or less in any eye - even with glasses or a visual aid.
- You have another severe visual impairment,that is just as severe as a severe visual impairment.
You are considered severely visually impaired if your visual impairment is so severe that it causes a degree of disability of 100 - but you are not yet blind.
- Application for blindness benefit
- Assessment notice in the law on severe disabilities for blindness or severe visual impairment
There are no fees.
The allowance for the blind will be paid to you from the month in which the requirements are met and your application has been submitted to the State Administration Office.
Please contact the State Administration Office (LVwA).
You can find application forms for blindness benefit on the website of the State Administration Office.
In contrast to the allowance for the blind, assistance for the blind is a federal benefit. You can receive this in addition to the allowance for the blind. You can find out which requirements must be met from your local social welfare office.
If you do not yet have a notice of assessment of blindness or severe visual impairment, please submit an application for a disability assessment to the Saxony-Anhalt State Administration Office.
Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Health and Equality of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
30.05.2025
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06114 Halle (Saale)
Personal visit by appointment only!
Appointments for severely disabled persons:
Magdeburg: Tel.: (0391) 567-2680
Halle (Saale): Tel.: (0345) 514-3350
or online at:
https://lvwa.sachsen-anhalt.de/das-lvwa/soziales/
Hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and
1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
