Receiving transitional benefit due to occupational disease for persons with statutory accident insurance

Your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will check your entitlement to transitional benefits ex officio. So you don't have to apply for the transitional benefit. Your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will send you a form. You can return the completed form 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 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:

• Fill out the form and prove how much money you have earned or are earning before and after giving up the harmful activity.
• Send the completed form to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
• Your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund calculates the financial loss you will incur as a result of giving up the harmful activity.
• Your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will decide on the amount of your transitional benefit, inform you in writing and pay you the benefit.

• You have been recognised as having an occupational disease or a threat of occupational disease.
• In order to prevent the exacerbation or development of the occupational disease, you had to abandon the work that caused the disease.
• Because you no longer work in your previous profession, you have a lower income.

• Proof of income
• Proof of earnings
• Tax Records
• Proof of pension
• Proof of wage replacement

There are no costs.

There is no deadline.

Processing usually takes 1 to 3 months.

Forms available: Yes

Written form required: No

Informal application possible: Yes

Personal appearance required: No

Online services available: Yes

• 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)

12.01.2023

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.