Entitlement to survivors' benefits exists if:

• an insured person was receiving an injury pension following a reduction in earning capacity (MdE) of at least 50 percent at the time of death and
• the death of the insured person is not the result of an accident at work or an occupational disease and therefore there is no entitlement to a survivor's pension from the statutory accident insurance.

Additional requirements for widows, widowers and surviving registered partners:

• Widower or widow status exists.
• It was not a pension marriage.

Additional requirements for orphans:

• There is an assumed orphan's pension entitlement (i.e. the orphan would be entitled to an orphan's pension if the insured person died as a result of an insured event under statutory accident insurance).
• The orphan was living with the deceased person at the time of death.
• The orphan was mainly supported by the deceased person.

Requirements for ongoing benefit:

At the time of death, your relative was receiving one or more pensions from the agricultural accident insurance scheme, which

• together with other pensions from the statutory accident insurance, if applicable, reached an MdE of 80 percent,
• was/are drawn for at least 10 years and
• there is evidence of a loss of at least 10 percent in the survivors' benefits from the statutory pension insurance.