Determination of helplessness and the levels of care allowance for war victims
If you are helpless as a result of an injury, you can apply for a monthly care allowance.
Helplessness is assumed, for example, in the case of these health disorders recognized as consequences of injury:
- Blindness and severe visual impairment
- Paraplegia and other disabilities that require the permanent and constant use of a wheelchair, including within the home
- Brain damage, seizure disorders, mental disability and psychoses, if these health disorders alone result in a degree of impairment (GdS) of 100
- Loss of two or more limbs, excluding amputation of the lower leg or foot on both sides
The principles set out in the Versorgungsmedizin-Verordnung (VersMedV) apply to the determination of helplessness and the levels of care allowance.
You are deemed to be helpless if you require permanent external assistance for a series of frequently and regularly recurring activities to ensure your personal existence.
This also applies if:
- the assistance is required in the form of supervision or guidance
or
- the assistance does not have to be provided on a permanent basis, but constant readiness to provide assistance is required.
- Documents to determine helplessness (expert opinion from the medical service of the health/nursing care insurance fund, if available)
- Helplessness must be present
None
Fee: free of charge
The assessment of whether and, if so, to what extent a disability-related helplessness exists is usually carried out by means of a medical assessment (possibly as part of a home visit).
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Health and Equality
13.11.2020
The supply according to the Federal Supply Act and the ancillary laws has been transferred by the legislature to the services of the war victim care. These are the state health care offices, pension offices, orthopaedic care centres and health care centres.
