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Apply for victim compensation

Service Description

If you suffer damage to your health in Germany as a result of an intentional, unlawful assault against your person or another person, or as a result of lawful defense, for example bodily injury, you may, on application, receive benefits in respect of this damage to your health and, if applicable, economic loss.

The following benefits are available

  • Medical treatment and treatment of the sick, welfare benefits (war victims' welfare),
  • survivors' benefits for widows, widowers, orphans, parents,
  • payment of death and burial benefits,
  • assumption of costs in the event of need for nursing care due to injury and for institutional care
  • Provision of orthopedic aids,
  • pension and
  • other cash benefits.

Care can be provided in the form of a monthly pension. Depending on the degree of damage (GdS), this includes

  • non-income-related benefits, such as basic pension, care allowance, severely disabled person's allowance, clothing allowance, as well as
  • income-related benefits, such as compensatory pension, spouse's supplement, occupational injury compensation.

Compensation is not paid for pecuniary or immaterial damage. This also applies to self-inflicted injuries (for example, if you started a fight).

You may be denied benefits if you, as the injured party, do not contribute to the investigation, for example, if you do not file a report.

For foreigners, the scope of benefits depends on the length of their legal residence. Your stay is also considered legal if your deportation is suspended ("Duldung"). On the other hand, people who are staying in Germany illegally are not entitled to benefits.

Process flow

You submit an application for compensation for victims of violent acts to the competent body. The competent office will inform you of any documents that need to be submitted. It examines your case and informs you whether and what assistance you will receive.

Who should I contact?

The Thuringian State Administration Office, Department 610, is responsible for victim compensation.

Requirements

  • You are the victim of an intentional unlawful assault in Germany or the survivor of a person killed as a result of such an assault.
  • You can prove the assault
  • your health damage is due to this attack
  • the health consequences of this injury continue

Which documents are required?

  • Written request
  • if available: Evidence of the act of violence (e.g. copy of police report/criminal complaint), evidence of damage to health (doctor's report)

What are the fees?

There are no fees to pay.

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

In principle, there are no deadlines to observe. However, you should file an application as soon as possible to facilitate the investigation after the crime.

Legal basis

Applications / forms

Objection; the objection authority is the Thuringian State Administration Office.

Appeal

Benefits are only granted upon application.

The right of first application is a personal right and must always be exercised by the victim in person. Exceptions to this are guardians/ proxies/ legal representatives.

What else should I know?

  • The pension for the injured person begins in the month in which the requirements are met, at the earliest in the month of application.
  • The pension is also payable for periods prior to the application if the application is submitted within one year of the occurrence of the injury.
  • The application can be made in writing or on record at the Thuringian State Administration Office. However, applications are also accepted from all other benefit providers, from all municipalities and, in the case of persons residing abroad, also from the official representations of the Federal Republic of Germany abroad.

Comments

Foreigners are also entitled to care,

  • if they are nationals of a Member State of the European Community or
  • as far as legal regulations of the European Community, which require an equal treatment with Germans, are applicable to them or
  • insofar as this is determined by law on the basis of an intergovernmental agreement, or
  • if reciprocity is guaranteed).

Other foreigners who are legally resident in Germany for more than a temporary stay of no more than six months receive benefits in accordance with the following provisions:

  • Foreigners who have resided legally in the Federal territory for an uninterrupted period of at least three years receive benefits like Germans;
  • Foreigners who have been legally resident in Germany for less than three years without interruption receive only income-related benefits.

Author

The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.

Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6Plus)

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