For Citizens - Service Finder
Apply for health assistance
If you do not have health insurance and receive uninterrupted assistance for subsistence for a short period of time (probably less than a month), the social welfare office will immediately ensure the necessary medical care by issuing a treatment certificate.
These include:
- Preventive health assistance for the prevention and early detection of diseases
- Help with illness
- Help with family planning
- Help with pregnancy and maternity
- Help with sterilization
Responsible is
- the social welfare office of the respective local social assistance institution
or
- the social welfare office of the municipality belonging to the district or region used by the local social assistance institution,
in which the residence is located.
Local social welfare agencies: districts, independent cities and the Hanover region
Help for health is provided to persons,
- who do not have statutory or sufficient private health insurance,
- a provision of the services via the health insurance (§ 264 Abs. 4 SGB V) is not possible
- and for whom the raising of the funds for the necessary assistance from income and assets is not reasonable.
- Application for health assistance
- Identity card or passport (or other documents that can identify the person beyond doubt)
The competent social assistance institution shall provide information on the documents required in individual cases.
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Gender Equality
Source: Serviceportal Niedersachsen (Portalverbund des Bundes und der Länder)
26898 Rhede (Ems)
26899 Rhede (Ems)
recipients: Gemeinde Rhede (Ems)
bank: Emsländische Volksbank
IBAN: DE08266614940000164300
recipients: Gemeinde Rhede (Ems)
bank: Sparkasse Emsland
IBAN: DE06266500010017000019
26899 Rhede (Ems)
26899 Rhede (Ems)
26899 Rhede (Ems)