Receive child injury benefit from the statutory accident insurance

The procedure is different depending on whether your child has family insurance with your statutory health insurance fund or has statutory or private health insurance with the other parent.

If the child is covered by family insurance with your statutory health insurance fund:

• Your doctor issues a medical certificate for receiving sickness benefit in the event of illness of the child.
• Submit the certificate to your health insurance company.
• Your health insurance fund pays you the child care injury benefit on behalf of the responsible accident insurance fund.

If the child has statutory or private health insurance with the other parent:

• The competent accident insurance fund is the accident insurance fund of the federal state in which the kindergarten or school is located.
• Your doctor issues a medical certificate for receiving sickness benefit in the event of illness of the child.
• Submit an application (in writing or by telephone) to the competent accident insurance fund for the granting of child care injury benefit.

You can also contact the 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 continue without registering.
• Select your local employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund or use the industry search to find it.
• Upload the required documents.
• Fill out and submit the online form.
• Your report will automatically be forwarded to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
• You will receive feedback in the desired way.

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 may also be able to submit the report electronically there.

Message by mail:

• Please send an informal letter to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
• Pay attention to the required information and enclose the necessary documents.

You are entitled to child injury benefit if:

• you have to supervise, look after or care for a child in your household because of the consequences of an insured event (school and kindergarten accident),
• your child has not yet reached the age of 12,
• you were entitled to remuneration or other cash benefits (e.g. sickness benefit, unemployment benefit) before supervising, caring for or caring for your child, and
• no other person living in your household can look after your child.

• medical certificate in case of illness of a child

Please ask the accident insurance fund responsible for you whether you need to submit further documents.

There are no costs.

There is no deadline.

Forms available: No

Written form required: No

Informal application possible: Yes

Personal appearance required: No

Online services available: Yes

• Contradiction
• Detailed information on how to lodge 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)

22.12.2022

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.