The Künstlersozialkasse (KSK) can only pay you the correct subsidy if it knows how high your contributions for private or voluntary statutory health and long-term care insurance are. You should therefore inform the KSK of any changes to your contributions.

The Künstlersozialkasse will advise you on all matters relating to artists' social insurance.

If you are working or employed in the food sector for the first time, you will need a certificate from the public health department confirming that you have been instructed in infection control.

If you have voluntary or private health insurance, you can apply for a subsidy for your health insurance.

You receive subsidies from your statutory health insurance for dentures. Only in exceptional cases will the health insurance fund cover the cost of implants. Insured persons with a low income may receive financial support.

If you have statutory health insurance, your health insurance fund will contribute to the costs of health courses under certain conditions.

You can take advantage of health check-ups for your children. Thus, the general state of health and age-appropriate development of a child is regularly examined by a doctor. Possible problems or abnormalities can be detected and treated at an early stage.

As a rule, you will receive your electronic health card (eGK) automatically from your health insurance company. If you have lost your eGK or it is defective, apply for a new eGK from your health insurance company.

Physicians require an authorization for the medical monitoring of occupationally exposed persons in the field of radiation protection.

If you are unable to work due to your child's illness, you can receive child sickness benefit from your statutory health insurance fund. Under certain conditions, you can transfer the child sickness benefit days to your partner.

Dental care serves to examine teeth and oral cavity in detail in order to be able to detect and treat any dental, oral and jaw diseases at an early stage.

You can take advantage of health check-ups for your children. Thus, the general state of health and age-appropriate development of a child is regularly examined by a doctor. Possible problems or abnormalities can be detected and treated at an early stage.

If you become subject to compulsory insurance in the statutory health insurance, you can be exempted from this in certain cases. You submit the application to your statutory health insurance fund.

If you have statutory health insurance, you can insure your children and your spouse or partner free of charge under certain conditions. You submit the application to your statutory health insurance fund.

Dental services promote the dental health of children and adolescents with age-appropriate programs

If a child or young person has a mental disability or is at risk of one and their participation in society is restricted as a result, they can apply for integration assistance.

Health insurance companies offer services for the prevention of diseases for mothers and fathers.

You can receive medical rehabilitation benefits from the Landwirtschaftliche Alterskasse (LAK). You must meet certain benefit requirements for this.

Do you belong to a group of people who are not automatically covered by statutory health insurance? Then you can be insured as a voluntary member of a statutory health insurance fund.

The health insurance covers the costs for early detection examinations and tests necessary during pregnancy.

Dental care serves to examine teeth and oral cavity in detail in order to be able to detect and treat any dental, oral and jaw diseases at an early stage.

You can have the costs of private treatment reimbursed by your statutory health insurance fund under certain conditions.

If you have paid too much for your statutory health insurance and long-term care insurance, you can apply for a refund from your health insurance fund.

If your income or assets are not sufficient to cover your necessary living expenses, you will receive support in financing your contributions to health insurance and long-term care insurance under certain conditions.

Outpatient or inpatient preventive care can help you avert the threat of illness or the need for long-term care. You apply for the preventive care benefit from your health insurance fund.

If you as an employee are unable to work for a longer period of time, you can receive sickness benefit to cover the loss of earnings.

You have collected mushrooms and do not know if you can eat them? Let us advise you.

In the case of professional stays in tropical or subtropical areas, the employer is obliged to arrange occupational health precautions.

If you, as an insured person in the artists' social insurance scheme, have a question or concern in connection with your compulsory insurance, you can contact the Künstlersozialkasse.

Have you had a recognized accident at work or an occupational disease? If so, the agricultural employers' liability insurance association will reimburse you for the associated travel costs under certain conditions.

If you need information on artists' social insurance, you can take part in an information event under certain conditions.

Has your professional situation changed in such a way that you expect a different income from your self-employed artistic or journalistic work? Then you need to adjust your income estimate with the Artists' Social Insurance Fund.

You are free to choose and change your statutory health insurance fund under certain conditions.

As regards health protection, there are public preventive measures in place in Germany, which you can benefit from and may need to take into account. Here you can find information on your rights and obligations on compulsory vaccination programmes and screening tests.

Grants that you receive from the Artists' Social Security Fund are finally settled in the following year.

Co-payments for medicines, remedies and applications may not exceed two percent of the annual gross income.

You can make a declaration in the organ donation register as to whether you agree or disagree with organ and tissue donation.

If you have statutory health and nursing care insurance through the artists' social insurance fund, you can change your health insurance fund under certain conditions.

If you are not only self-employed as an artist or journalist but also carry out other activities or receive social benefits, you must report this to the Künstlersozialkasse.

If your personal data changes, you must inform the Künstlersozialkasse. You should also inform the Künstlersozialkasse if your contact details change or expand.

If your self-employed artistic or journalistic activity has changed in such a way that you no longer carry it out on a professional or do you employ several people? ? Then you can no longer be insured through the artists' social insurance fund.

If you stay or work abroad for a longer period of time, this may affect your German social insurance. You must notify the Künstlersozialkasse of any change in your situation in good time.

Do you receive a pension from the statutory pension insurance? Then this has an effect on your insurance status in the artists' social insurance.

If you change the legal form of your activity or the activity itself, this may affect your obligation to be insured with the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK).

If you are exposed to a hazard at work that can cause an occupational disease, you will receive preventive measures under certain conditions.

If you are unable to work due to illness or pregnancy and receive compensation from another source, you do not have to pay social security contributions via the Artists' Social Security Fund.

Take care of your health and that of your family. Addiction prevention offers free information, advice and support. The addiction prevention service is aimed at children, young people, adolescents and adults as well as their relatives.

If you work in the area of statutory health insurance and a service regulation applies to you, you can agree a partial reimbursement of costs. You then initially pay for medical services yourself and are reimbursed for your expenses under certain conditions.

If you pay too much into your pension insurance, you will receive a refund.

If a veterinary medicinal product or vaccine is suspected of causing adverse effects in an animal, a human or the environment, report this to the competent authority. You can also proceed in the same way for a human medicinal product that has been used in an animal.

If you are insured through the artists' social security fund, you must submit an annual income estimate.

If you are subject to compulsory insurance or entitled to subsidies via the Artists' Social Security Fund, you will receive proof of the tax-deductible contributions and subsidies for each year.

If you are subject to compulsory insurance or entitled to a subsidy via the artists' social security fund, you will receive proof of your insurance for each year.

If you are insured through the Künstlersozialkasse, you can prove your insurance status with a current confirmation of insurance.

If you are insured through the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK), you can obtain information about your insurance obligation and your contribution account from the KSK at any time. To do this, you must send a request to the KSK.

If you receive social assistance or basic security and have just had a baby, the social welfare office will bear the costs of counselling sessions.

You can obtain information about the data on occupational radiation exposure stored in the radiation protection register from the Federal Office for Radiation Protection.

If you have submitted a declaration for organ and tissue donation in the organ donation register, you can retrieve it using your declaration ID.

As an artist or publicist, you can register for social security via the Artists’ Social Security Fund (KSK).

Are you exposed to a risk at work that could lead to the development, aggravation or recurrence of an occupational disease? If so, you are entitled to preventive measures under certain conditions.

If there are indications of changes, the Künstlersozialkasse can review your artistic or publishing activities and your income.

If you are insured with the Künstlersozialkasse or are entitled to a subsidy, your income can be checked in an annual random sample.

As a newcomer to the profession, have you not earned the minimum income in the first three years of your work? Then you must prove to the Künstlersozialkasse that you are gainfully employed.

If you do not pay your contributions to the Künstlersozialkasse regularly, you will have to pay for your medical treatment yourself.

Are you no longer able to control your use of drugs, alcohol, gambling or social media? Then addiction counseling centers can help you and your loved ones anonymously and free of charge, either on site or online.