Housing assistance for those with statutory accident insurance

Your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund checks and pays the housing assistance on its own initiative ("ex officio"). An application is therefore not necessary.

However, you can contact your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund online, in the portal of your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund or by post to check your entitlement to housing assistance.

Online service:

• Go to the online service.
• You will be guided through the procedure on the accident insurance service portal.
• You can sign up.
• If you would like to receive the answer from your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund in the mailbox of your Bund ID account or My Company Account, you must have an account and authenticate yourself.
• If you would like to receive the answer by post, you can also continue without registering.
• Select your local employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance company or use the industry search to find out what you are looking for.
• Upload the required documents.
• Fill out the online form and submit it.
• Your report will be automatically forwarded to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
• You will receive feedback on the desired path.

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 report electronically there if necessary.

Message by post:

• Contact your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund with an informal letter.

Pay attention to the required information and enclose the necessary documents.

You are entitled to housing assistance in the event of damage to your health

• as a result of an accident at work, an accident on the way to work or an occupational disease,
• which lasts more than 6 months,
• by the nature or severity of which you are dependent on the
  • adaptation of your existing living space to make it accessible to the disabled, or
  • Provision of housing for the disabled.

You are particularly entitled if you can no longer cope with your daily life in your apartment or house. This applies in the event that you

• can only cope with their daily lives under unreasonable difficulties,
• the current living space, with all the rooms required for you, is not accessible and usable or only under unreasonable difficulties, or
• their previous or future new workplace can only be reached from the previously used apartment with unreasonable difficulty, whether by public transport or by their own car.

• The documents you need to submit depend on your personal circumstances, needs and concerns.
• This can include, for example, cost estimates for possible conversions.
• You will find out details in a personal conversation.

There is no deadline.

Forms available: No

Written form required: No

Informal application possible: Yes

Personal appearance required: No

• Contradiction
• Detailed information on how to file an objection can be found in the notification of your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.

Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS)

06.01.2023

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.