Submit travel and travel expenses for medical treatment in the event of an accident at work or occupational disease
If you have suffered an accident at work recognised by the statutory accident insurance or if you suffer from an occupational disease, you can submit associated costs for reimbursement.
Costs that may be covered by your statutory accident insurance institution are, for example,
- travel costs by public transport,
- travel expenses by private motor vehicles,
- travel costs by other means of transport (e.g. taxi or ambulance),
- travel expenses (e.g. food and accommodation costs),
- Cost of luggage transport.
Your travel expenses are usually reimbursed for 2 family trips home per month. Alternatively, 2 trips of your relatives to your place of stay can also be covered.
If you need an accompanying person due to your state of health, the travel expenses for this person can also be reimbursed.
If your companion has lost earnings due to the accompaniment, the earnings may be reimbursed if the reimbursement is in reasonable proportion to the care costs otherwise incurred.
Process flow
- You can submit travel and travel expenses for medical treatment in the event of an accident at work or occupational disease 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:
- 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.
- The costs are related to the consequences of the accident at work or occupational disease.
Which documents are required?
- Cost receipts, invoices and receipts
- You can submit the receipts online to your accident insurance institution.
- No further application is required.
What are the fees?
There are no costs.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
There is no deadline.
Legal basis
Applications / forms
Forms available: No
Written form required: No
Informal application possible: Yes
Personal appearance required: No
Online services 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.
Technically approved by
Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS)
Professionally released on
08.12.2022
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
