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The location is used to determine the responsible office for the selected administrative service. In most cases you can enter your place of residence to find the competent authority. However, there are also cases in which a different location must be specified. Here are some examples:

Birth certificateYou want to get married and need a birth certificate. You live in Hanover, but you were born in Celle. You must therefore state your place of birth, i.e. Celle.

Business registrationYou would like to register a business in Braunschweig. Your place of residence is Hanover. You must therefore state the location of your future business, i.e. Braunschweig.

Apply for a building permitYou would like to build a house in Wunstorf and therefore apply for a building permit. Her place of residence is currently Hanover. You must indicate the place where the house is to be built. In this case it is Wunstorf.

Widow's and widower's pension for survivors granted by statutory accident insurance

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If your spouse/ registered partner or your registered partner has died as a result of an insured event (accident at work, occupational disease, road accident), they will receive a widow's pension or widower's pension.
The pension is reduced by the amount of own income.
You are entitled to the pension until you have remarried.
If you have remarried and the new marriage has been dissolved or annulled, you will again be entitled to a widow's pension or widower's pension for the penultimate spouse. However, you must submit an application for this.
The rules on survivors' benefits to widows and widowers also apply to survivors' benefits to registered partners.

Competent authority

Please contact your accident insurance institution.

Accident insurance institutions are:

  • Professional trade associations, broken down by sector
  • Public accident insurance institutions (municipal accident insurance associations, national accident insurance funds, fire brigade accident insurance funds)

Social Insurance for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture (SVLFG)

Requirements

  • Your spouse/registered partner or Your spouse/registered partner must have died as a result of an insured event
  • Marriage/registered civil partnership must in principle have been concluded before the insured event or death must have occurred later than one year after the insured event

Applications / forms

No

Which documents are required?

Please contact your responsible accident insurance institution.

What are the fees?

No

Process flow

An insured event resulting in the death of insured persons must be reported by the company to the competent professional association or accident fund.

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

Please contact your responsible accident insurance institution.

Processing duration

Please contact your responsible accident insurance institution.

Statutory accident insurance is a branch of German social insurance. The employer is obliged by law to provide employees with protection against accidents at the workplace, accidents on the way to and from work or occupational disease.

Legal basis

Section 65 Seventh Book of the Social Code (SGB VII)

Source: Serviceportal Niedersachsen (Portalverbund des Bundes und der Länder)

Further Links

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