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Receive a parental pension from statutory accident insurance

Service Description

The employers' liability insurance associations and accident insurance funds will pay you as a parent a regular parental pension if your child dies as a result of an accident at work or on the way to work, or a recognized occupational disease.

This applies to

  • parents,
  • step-parents and
  • foster parents.

You will receive the parental pension for as long as you would have been entitled to maintenance from the deceased on the grounds of dependency if the accident at work, commuting accident or occupational disease had not occurred.

The pension amounts to:

  • 20 percent for one parent,
  • 30 percent for a couple

of the annual earnings (salary and other forms of earnings such as bonuses or holiday bonuses) of the deceased.

If you receive the parental pension as a couple and your wife or husband dies, you will not immediately receive the parental pension for one parent (20 percent). Instead, you will continue to receive the amount for one parent (30 percent) for 3 months.

Your own income will not be offset against the parental pension.

Process flow

The principle of official investigation applies in statutory accident insurance. This means that your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will investigate on its own initiative ( " ex officio ") conducts all necessary investigations. You therefore do not have to submit an application.

You can also contact your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund online or by post.

Online service:

  • Call up the online service.
  • You will be guided through the procedure on the accident insurance service portal.
    • You can log in.
    • If you would like to receive a reply from your employer's liability insurance association 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 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 employer's 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

If your daughter or son dies as a result of an accident at work, a commuting accident or an occupational disease, you will receive a parental pension under the following conditions:

At the time of death, the deceased made a substantial contribution to your maintenance from his or her wages or earned income:

  • contributed substantially to your maintenance or
  • would have contributed significantly to your maintenance in the future without the insured event.

You are also entitled to a parental pension if

  • the deceased had a reduction in earning capacity (MdE) of 50 percent or more as a result of these occupational illnesses:
    • Silica dust lung disease (silicosis)
    • Quartz dust lung disease in conjunction with active pulmonary tuberculosis (silico-tuberculosis)
    • Asbestos dust lung disease (asbestosis) or diseases of the pleura caused by asbestos dust
    • Lung cancer, laryngeal cancer or ovarian cancer
      • in connection with asbestos dust lung disease (asbestosis)
      • in connection with pleural disease caused by asbestos dust or
      • if there is evidence of exposure to a cumulative dose of asbestos fiber dust in the workplace in accordance with the legal requirements
  • and this occupational disease was a contributory cause of death.

The same regulations apply to stepchildren and foster children.

Which documents are required?

  • Proof of maintenance, for example:
    • Maintenance order from the court
    • regular, earmarked transfers or incoming payments, for example rent payments
    • Contract concluded between the parties involved

What are the fees?

There are no costs.

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

There is no deadline.

Processing duration

Processing Time: 1 - 6 Months

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

Online services available: Yes

Author

German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV)


Forwarding service: Deep link to the original portal

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.

Technically approved by

Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS)

Professionally released on

06.01.2023

Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)

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Competent Authority

Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung e.V. (DGUV)

Address
Glinkastraße 11568
10117 Berlin, Stadt
Telephone
+49 800 6050404
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