Support for re-entry into working life for those with statutory accident insurance
If you are no longer able to carry out your previous job as before due to health problems caused by an accident at work or an occupational disease, you will receive benefits for participation in working life. Benefits that can be provided by your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund are, for example:
- Assistance for the resumption or continuation of previous activities
- Support in the implementation within the previous company to another activity
- Assistance in taking up employment in another company
- Retraining
- professional adaptation, further training and qualification
- Admission to a workshop for people with disabilities
After an accident at work or an occupational disease, the statutory accident insurance works by all appropriate means to enable the return to the previous job. If it is not possible to return to the existing job, work is being done to at least maintain the employment relationship with the previous employer. If this is not possible either, the aim is to achieve rapid and sustainable integration into the general labour market.
In the case of children and adolescents, too, participation benefits are provided in the event of an insured event. The aim is, among other things, to enable those affected to receive a general school education as well as appropriate employment or gainful employment.
You do not need to submit an application. Your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will examine possible claims ex officio.
Process flow
You do not need to submit an application. Your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will examine possible claims on its own initiative ("ex officio") and contact you.
- After reporting an accident at work with an imminent permanent restriction of the exercise of the previous activity, the rehabilitation manager will contact you.
- He or she discusses with you and, if you agree, your employer about further options for maintaining the job.
- If you are no longer able to carry out the previous activity even with aids or support, he or she will discuss the further alternatives with you.
- If the problems in the workplace occur later, without the need for up-to-date medical treatment, contact your rehabilitation manager.
You can contact your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund online or by post.
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 BundID 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 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.
Requirements
- You have had a recognized accident at work or on the way to work.
- You suffer from a recognized occupational disease.
- Due to the consequences of an accident at work or occupational disease, you can only carry out your previous job to a limited extent or not at all.
Which documents are required?
none
What are the fees?
There are no costs.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
There is no deadline.
Applications / forms
Forms available: No
Written form required: No
Informal application possible: Yes
Personal appearance required: No
Online service available: Yes
Appeal
- 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.
Information on rehabilitation services on the website of the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV)
Technically approved by
Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS)
Professionally released on
06.01.2023
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
