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Housing assistance for people with statutory accident insurance
Service Description
The aim of housing assistance is to enable you to live as independently as possible and participate in all aspects of daily, professional and social life.
Depending on the individual case, housing assistance includes
- Costs for adapted or provided housing suitable for the disabled,
- relocation costs and
- costs for the provision of living space for a carer.
The type and scope of housing assistance depends on your personal needs.
Process flow
Your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund checks and pays the housing assistance on its own initiative ("ex officio"). An application is therefore not necessary.
However, you can contact your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund online, via the portal of your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund or by post to check your entitlement to housing assistance.
Online service:
- Call up the online service.
- You will be guided through the process on the accident insurance service portal.
- You can log in.
- If you would like to receive a reply from your Berufsgenossenschaft or accident insurance fund in the mailbox of your Bund-ID 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 logging in.
- 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.
Requirements
You are entitled to housing assistance in the event of damage to your health
- as a result of an accident at work, a commuting accident or an occupational disease,
- which lasts for more than 6 months,
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the nature or severity of which makes you dependent on the
- adaptation of your existing living space for the disabled or
- the provision of disabled-friendly living space.
You are particularly entitled if you are no longer able to cope with daily life in your apartment or house. This also applies if you
- can only manage your daily life with unreasonable difficulty,
- your current living space, including all the rooms you need, is not accessible or can only be used with unreasonable difficulty, or
- your current or future new workplace can only be reached from your current home with unreasonable difficulty, whether by public transport or by car.
Which documents are required?
- The documents you need to submit will depend on your personal circumstances, needs and concerns.
- This may include, for example, cost estimates for possible conversions.
- You can find out the details in a personal consultation.
What are the fees?
Fee: free of chargeThere are no costs.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
There is no deadline.
Processing duration
Processing Time: 1 - 2 WeeksThe processing time depends on the individual case, as it may involve the installation of a stairlift or the conversion of a house. Your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will usually contact you within 1 to 2 weeks.
Legal basis
Applications / forms
- 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.
Appeal
Forms available: No
Written form required: No
Informal application possible: Yes
Personal appearance necessary: No
Further Information
- Information on housing assistance on the website of the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV)
Remark: Joint guidelines of the associations of the employers' liability insurance associations and accident insurance funds on housing assistance
Author
German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV)
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
- Housing assistance for persons with statutory accident insurance
Remark: Display of performance in the source portal
Technically approved by
Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS)
Professionally released on
06.01.2023
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)