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Addiction is first and foremost a disease and requires treatment just like any other disease. In Lower Saxony, there are numerous addiction counseling centers that provide help....

Patient Concerns offers all citizens of Lower Saxony the opportunity to raise concerns and complaints about healthcare in Lower Saxony.

Information and advice on AIDS and sexually transmitted infections can be obtained from the relevant authorities. The consultation is confidential, anonymous and free of charge...

If you are seeking asylum in Germany and need financial or medical assistance, you can submit an application to the authorities.

If you receive social assistance or basic security and have just had a baby, the social welfare office will bear the costs of counselling sessions.

If you produce, treat or place food on the market as a commercial or employed person, work in kitchens or mass catering facilities, you need a valid certificate from the health authority about infection protection instructions.

The sickness benefit is intended to give the insured person * to compensate for the loss of earnings. The duration and amount of sick pay are prescribed by law. In the event of...

As a beneficiary of social assistance or basic social security, you will be supported by the social welfare office during pregnancy and maternity if you do not have health...

Bathing water is any section of surface water where the competent authority expects a large number of bathers and for which it has not issued a permanent bathing ban or does not...

Recognition as a guardianship association is a prerequisite for receiving a state grant for guardianship associations.

Dental services promote the dental health of children and adolescents with age-appropriate programs

Has your professional situation changed in such a way that you expect a different income from your self-employed artistic or journalistic work? Then you need to adjust your income estimate with the Artists' Social Insurance Fund.

If you cannot work because your child is ill, you can get children's sickness benefit from your statutory health insurance fund. Under certain conditions, you can transfer the children's sickness benefit days to your partner.

Dementia - this diagnosis triggers frightening in those affected and relatives alike. Dementias are more than simple memory disorders. They affect the entire personality of man:...

Since a new identification card in credit card format has been introduced since 01.01.2013, an extension of severely disabled passes may no longer be technically possible. When...

The family care time supports relatives in care cases in the family. Employees can take up to 24 months of partial leave.

With the family care leave, you have the opportunity to reduce your work to up to 15 hours per week for up to 24 months in order to care for a relative in need of care in a home...

Grants that you receive from the Artists' Social Security Fund are finally settled in the following year.

The competent authority is obliged to set up a specialised medical service for the performance of its public health service tasks. In Lower Saxony, all doctors who work in these...

The task of the Medical Service / Youth Medical Service is to protect and promote the health of children and adolescents. To this end, he works with day-care centres for children...

If you have statutory health and long-term care insurance through the Künstlersozialkasse, you can change your health insurance fund under certain conditions.

If you are not only self-employed as an artist or journalist but also carry out other activities or receive social benefits, you must report this to the Künstlersozialkasse.

If your personal data changes, you must inform the Künstlersozialkasse. You should also inform the Künstlersozialkasse if your contact details change or expand.

If you stay or work abroad for a longer period of time, this may affect your German social insurance. You must notify the Künstlersozialkasse of any change in your situation in good time.

Do you receive a pension from the statutory pension insurance? Then this has an effect on your insurance status in the artists' social insurance.

If you change the legal form of your activity or the activity itself, this may affect your obligation to be insured with the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK).

If you pay too much into your pension insurance, you will receive a refund.

If you are insured through the artists' social security fund, you must submit an annual income estimate.

As an artist or publicist, you can register for social security via the Artists’ Social Security Fund (KSK).

You can view summaries of risk management plans on the portal for drug information of the federal and state governments as a supplement to specialist and package leaflets.

For the medical supervision of occupationally exposed persons in the field of radiation protection, physicians require an authorization.

If you are subject to compulsory insurance or entitled to a subsidy via the artists' social security fund, you will receive proof of your insurance for each year.

You can take advantage of health examinations for your children. In this way, a child's general state of health and age-appropriate development are regularly examined by a doctor. Possible problems or abnormalities can be detected and treated at an early stage.

Since 01.01.2014 there has been a new senior policy advisory structure in Lower Saxony. The new counselling centres not only replace the previous form of senior citizens' servic...

The Infection Protection Act prescribes the reporting of certain pathogens as well as vaccination damage by physicians and laboratories.

Due to a serious illness or accident, you, a family member or a loved one may suddenly find yourself dependent on a life-saving organ or tissue transplant. In Lower Saxony alone,...

Senior counselling can help with questions that arise with increasing age. Such questions can be: How can I live in the apartment in an age-appropriate way? How do I apply fo...

Mentally ill people need professional support and help in a crisis situation. The Social Psychiatric Service (SpDi) supports and cares for these people. The aim is to enable...

Vaccination is one of the most important measures to prevent diseases. For example, some diseases no longer occur or only very rarely, as the majority of people have been...

The Public Health Service will provide you with general information on certain infectious diseases, e.g.: What should you do in an emergency? What are the transmission routes? Ho...

If you are unable to work due to illness or pregnancy and receive compensation from another source, you do not have to pay social security contributions via the Artists' Social Security Fund.

Persons without health insurance who only receive short-term subsistence assistance may be entitled to health assistance.

If you need help with your livelihood and do not have health insurance – statutory or private – the social welfare provider will provide health assistance. These include: ...

Did you provide your photo for the electronic health card (eGK) more than 10 years ago? Then your health insurance company may ask you to submit a new photo.

Youth counselling can be perceived both as a task of youth work and in a youth, education and family counselling centre. In youth work Today, youth counselling sees itself more...

If your income or assets are not sufficient to cover your necessary living expenses, you will also receive subsidies for health insurance and long-term care insurance contributions under certain conditions in accordance with § 32 SGB XII.

If you have voluntary or private health insurance, you can apply for a subsidy for your health insurance.

Insured persons can inquire with their health insurance company about the possibilities of prevention. The health insurance companies provide quality-assured offers.

Those who have a minor job earning less than EUR 450 are not subject to health insurance.

You can take advantage of health examinations for your children. In this way, a child's general state of health and age-appropriate development are regularly examined by a doctor. Possible problems or abnormalities can be detected and treated at an early stage.

Assistance for the continuation of the budget is granted if the continuation of a budget is at risk. The service content includes personal care and the performance of necessary...

This qualified ambulance transport is generally ensured by the ground-based rescue service of the municipal authorities and partly supplemented by companies and aid organisations...

As a rule, you will receive your electronic health card (eGK) automatically from your health insurance company. If you have lost your eGK or it is defective, apply for a new eGK from your health insurance company.

Your child is affected by a school or daycare closure and you can no longer work because of it? Find out here how you will be reimbursed for loss of earnings.

Have you had to close your business or practice due to a ban on activity or quarantine? Here you will find information on how to reimburse ongoing uncovered operating costs.

If you become subject to compulsory insurance in the statutory health insurance, you can be exempted from this in certain cases. You submit the application to your statutory health insurance fund.

If you have statutory health insurance, you can insure your children and your spouse or partner free of charge under certain conditions. You submit the application to your statutory health insurance fund.

You can receive medical rehab from the pension insurance if your earning capacity is impaired by illness or disability.

In the event of an accident at work or a recognized occupational illness, you can submit receipts for the costs of remedies to be covered by statutory accident insurance.

Outpatient or inpatient preventive care can help you avert the threat of illness or the need for long-term care. You apply for the preventive care benefit from your health insurance fund.

After the occurrence of an insured event (accident at work, commuting accident, occupational disease), the statutory accident insurance covers the costs of the necessary medical rehabilitation.

You are free to choose and change your statutory health insurance fund under certain conditions.

Attention: The content of this service is no longer up-to-date. An update is currently being carried out by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Civilian service is the most...

Did you suffer a military service injury during your membership of the Bundeswehr? Then you can receive benefits under the Soldiers' Benefits Act upon application. Pension...

Emergency rescue is mainly provided by the ground-based rescue service and supplemented by the country's air ambulance. Ensuring that the population is supplied with emergency...

If you file a complaint about associations of statutory health insurance physicians and dentists with the competent supervisory authority, the latter will investigate the conduct of the associations as part of its legal supervision for potential violations of the law and work towards their rectification.

The health insurance company covers the costs of screening examinations and tests that are necessary during pregnancy.

The purpose of preventive dental care is to examine the teeth and oral cavity in detail in order to be able to detect and treat possible dental, oral and jaw diseases at an early stage.

Addiction is first and foremost a disease and requires treatment just like any other disease. Almost every city has counselling centres for people with addiction problems. Traine...

The purpose of preventive dental care is to examine the teeth and oral cavity in detail in order to be able to detect and treat possible dental, oral and jaw diseases at an early stage.

As an insured person, you are entitled to hospital treatment. Treatment is provided on a full inpatient basis if the treatment objective cannot be achieved by partial, pre-hospital or post-hospital treatment or outpatient treatment including home nursing care.

In the event of accidents at work or an occupational disease, accident insurance covers the costs of medical, dental or accident medical treatment instead of health insurance.

In the event of accidents at work or an occupational disease, accident insurance covers the costs of medicines and dressings instead of health insurance.

If you are employed and the first impairments or complaints appear, the German Pension Insurance offers you a free training program with elements on exercise, nutrition and stress management.

People suffering from a serious mental illness or disability may be forcibly committed to a closed psychiatric institution if they pose a present significant danger to themselves...

Your child had an accident at kindergarten or school and therefore has to be cared for by you at home? If so, you can receive child injury benefit under certain conditions.

By reporting suspected cases of side effects or vaccination complications to the authorities, you help to make medicines and vaccines safer.

If a work accident occurs at your company or institution, you must report it.

For many problems of health care and coping with illness-related, disease-causing and stressful life situations, you can benefit as an affected person or relative from a self-hel...

Children or adolescents in foster families or in residential child and youth welfare facilities are entitled to health care assistance.

Are you exposed to a risk at work that could lead to the development, aggravation or recurrence of an occupational disease? If so, you are entitled to preventive measures under certain conditions.

Tuberculosis is a contagious disease. It is an infectious disease that often begins with uncharacteristic symptoms (cough, fatigue, mild fever, etc.), which mainly affects the...

You can receive benefits from the Agricultural Health Insurance Fund (LKK) for company and household help (BHH) if you are absent due to illness, hospital treatment, preventive or rehabilitation treatment by the LKK or due to pregnancy and maternity leave.

If you no longer work due to an occupational disease, you can receive a transitional benefit from the statutory accident insurance.

As an impaired person (so-called injured party), you can apply for medical treatment for health impairments that are recognized as the result of an injury or have been caused by a recognized consequence of an injury.

Have you suffered damage to your health as a result of a vaccination or other measure of specific prophylaxis? Has this vaccination been publicly recommended, prescribed or...

Insured persons are entitled to specialised outpatient palliative care (SAPV) in the home or family environment.

The aim of integration assistance is to avoid or alleviate a disability. If your child has a disability or is at risk of being disabled, you may be granted additional benefits fo...

If you have been assessed as having a degree of disability of at least 50, you can apply for a severely disabled person's pass.

If you are in need of care, it may be necessary to adapt the living environment to your individual needs. You can apply to your long-term care insurance fund for financial support for necessary adaptations and conversions.

Carers can receive a subsidy towards their pension provision.

If you are blind or equivalent to a blind person, you will receive financial support under certain conditions. This lump sum of money compensates for the additional expenses you incur due to your blindness.

If you have a severe visual or hearing impairment, you first have to learn how to deal with the new situation. With basic training, you can learn special skills that you will need at work and in everyday life.

If there is an acute care situation in your family, you can be absent from work for up to 10 working days and receive care support allowance. For a care leave of up to 6 months, you are entitled to subsidies for health and care insurance in certain cases.

The Landesblindenfonds is intended to provide financial support to blind people living at home in exceptional, challenging life situations.

The State Blind Allowance (Blindengeld) is a benefit provided by the state of Lower Saxony to blind persons. It is intended to compensate for additional financial expenses caused by blindness and is granted regardless of income and assets.

If you are in need of care and are being cared for at home, you can be provided with care aids.

If you are cared for at home by relatives or acquaintances, you can apply for care allowance from your care insurance fund.

If you are in need of care and are being cared for at home, you can apply for care benefits in kind.

If you are cared for at home by relatives, you can receive care allowance and use the services of an outpatient care service at the same time in a combination solution.

If your relatives or friends are unable to provide you with continuous care at home, you are entitled to additional day and night care in a care facility. Your care insurance fund will contribute to the costs on application.

If you can no longer manage independently at home due to your need for care and cannot be cared for at home, care in a nursing home is necessary. Your long-term care insurance will pay part of the costs upon application.

If you are currently unable to work at least 3 hours a day due to your disability, but would still like to complete a regular (initial) training course, you could be supported with the budget for training.

If you want to do an apprenticeship and you need special support or assistance because of your disabilities, you can do the apprenticeship in companies or institutions that are equipped to meet your special needs.

If you need assistance with vocational integration or to secure an existing job because of your disability, you may be eligible for individual case funding.

Do you have a disability or are you at risk of a disability? Or do you look after a child or a person with a disability? The wide range of integration assistance services are designed to help you participate in all areas of social life.

Does your child have a mental disability or is at risk of one? Does this limit their participation in society? Then integration assistance can help.

In the case of full-time care services, the necessary upkeep of the minor and young adult is ensured through ongoing services. The necessary maintenance includes the costs for material expenses and for care and upbringing.

If you need assistance with vocational integration or to secure an existing job because of your disability, you may be eligible for other assistance.

People who are suffering from a serious, incurable and far-advanced disease and have only a short life expectancy left can, under certain conditions, make use of outpatient or inpatient hospice services.

If you are in need of care and cannot be cared for at home temporarily, you have the option of being cared for in a nursing facility for a short period of time.

If you train or further train people with disabilities and severely disabled people in your company, you can receive a subsidy towards their training pay. If you subsequently employ severely disabled people on a permanent basis, you can receive a wage subsidy.

If you train or further train people with disabilities and severely disabled people in your company, you can receive a subsidy towards their training pay. If you subsequently employ severely disabled people on a permanent basis, you can receive a wage subsidy.

If your private caregiver cannot care for you due to vacation or illness, your long-term care insurance will pay for a substitute in certain cases.

If you would like to work despite health problems, you can receive financial support for this - for example for aids or measures.

If you cannot currently work at least 3 hours per day because of your disability, you may be eligible for assistance at a sheltered workshop or other benefit provider.

If you want to do continuing education and you need special support or assistance because of your disabilities, you can do the continuing education in a company or facility that is set up to meet your special needs.

Would you like to take in a foster child? Then you must first qualify as a foster parent.

The benefits in full-time care also include the reimbursement of proven reasonable expenses for contributions to accident insurance if no statutory accident insurance exists.

When full-time care ends, the foster child can continue to be supported as a young adult.

If a foster child's health insurance cover is not sufficient for necessary measures, the youth welfare office may be able to cover the necessary co-payments or own contributions.

If you need special support with professional integration or to secure your job due to your disability, the employment agency can commission a specialist integration service for this purpose.

If family insurance is not possible for a foster child and there is no compulsory insurance, the youth welfare office can pay appropriate contributions for voluntary health insurance.

People with disabilities and people at risk of disability are entitled to medical rehabilitation.

As an impaired person (so-called injured party), you receive medical treatment for health impairments that have been recognized as a consequence of an injury or have been caused...

If you are severely disabled, you are entitled to free public transport or a vehicle tax reduction under certain conditions.

As a person with disabilities, you may receive transitional benefits to help cover your living expenses if you participate in certain educational activities.

If you need a qualified carer at home due to an illness, you can apply for home nursing care from your statutory health insurance fund. You will need a doctor's prescription for this.

If you need care as a result of an occupational accident, commuting accident or occupational disease, you can receive care allowance and other benefits from the statutory accident insurance.

To make it easier for you to care for relatives at home, you can attend free care courses and training sessions via your care insurance fund.

On 1 January 2013, the Act on the Reorientation of Long-Term Care Insurance (PNG) in Outpatient Care came into force with a large number of amendments. For details on the PNG,...

If it is important for their development, young adults can also receive educational support after their 18th birthday and be placed in full-time care.

Children and young people in curative full-time care have special needs. This requires close and intensive counseling of those involved in the foster care relationship. The child care service supports and accompanies foster carers and children with extensive services.

For questions concerning the official determination of a disability, compensation for disadvantages due in accordance with the established disability, the issuing and renewal of...

Would you like to take advantage of free public transport? For this purpose, you need the supplement to the severely disabled pass with a valid stamp from the competent authority...

Blind or severely visually impaired people can apply for a guide dog as an aid.

The statutory health insurance companies cover the costs of a medically necessary sterilisation.

Following a recognised accident at work or an occupational disease, you can claim reimbursement for related travel and transportation expenses.

Under certain conditions, statutory health insurance companies cover the costs of medically necessary orthodontic treatment for children and adolescents. You can have your own contribution reimbursed by your health insurance company after treatment.

In special or severe exceptional cases, the statutory health insurance contributes to orthodontic treatment of adults or implants.

Insured persons who are seriously mentally ill and are unable to access medical or medically prescribed services independently are entitled to sociotherapy.

Rehabilitation can help you avoid the permanent onset of a disability or need for long-term care, or help you cope better with the consequences.

People insured under the statutory health insurance scheme are entitled to medically necessary remedies.

If you want to do continuing education and you need special support or assistance because of your disabilities, you can do the continuing education in a company or institution that is set up to meet your special needs.

As an older person, you will receive a wide range of information and support as part of the care for the elderly: Advice on all questions of life, Identification of offers of...

The Internet is not the right way for every person to get their specific questions answered satisfactorily. Therefore: Call us and you will be helped. Often you save yourself the...

Under certain conditions, mothers and fathers are entitled to a mother/father-child measure from their health insurance fund.

Do you suspect hearing loss in your child? There are special hearing testing procedures for all ages (including infants!). Seek competent medical and specialist advice!...

The interdisciplinary counselling and early detection teams as well as the curative education early intervention centres are aimed at disabled children or children at risk of...

If certain conditions are met for the granting of assistance for subsistence, the social welfare office can also cover the costs of housekeeping assistance. Special situations of...

Do you have a mental illness or do you live with a mentally ill person? The various aids are intended to help you participate in social life again.

The competent authority fulfils the following tasks in the field of matters relating to severely disabled persons: Determination of disabilities according to the law on...

Do you live in Lower Saxony and need a parking permit for severely disabled people? Severely disabled persons with exceptional walking disabilities (mark "aG") or blin...

If you have a disability and have not yet found a training position after completing compulsory schooling, you can take part in a pre-vocational training program that takes your special needs into account.

If you are unable to work due to an accident at work or an occupational disease, you will receive injury benefit.

If you are affected by a disability, you can apply for a determination of your disability under certain conditions. This will also determine the degree of disability.

If you live in a facility for people with disabilities, you may be eligible for Social Security long-term care insurance benefits.

In the event of significant changes in the health conditions of the applicant disabled person, the competent authority will reassess the disability. At the same time , the...

If you need special assistance in integrating into working life and are currently unable to complete any training or further education due to your disability, you can receive individual in-company qualification as part of Supported Employment.

The health insurance funds cover travel costs that are medically necessary in connection with a health insurance benefit.

People with disabilities or their representatives may apply to the relevant chamber for special training arrangements.

People in need of care who are generally cared for at home can be cared for during the day in a day care facility.

If you are helpless as a result of an injury, you can apply for a monthly care allowance.

Are you the foster carer of a child in full-time care? Then you will receive professional support and advice from the Foster Children's Service.

The foster children's service can support the foster parents if a child is to live permanently in a foster family because the conditions in the family of origin are not improving in the long term.

If at least 25% of the jobs are filled by newly hired severely disabled people when setting up or expanding a company, funding can be considered as an integration project....

You can receive sickness benefit if you accompany a person with a disability who is receiving inpatient treatment. The sickness benefit compensates you for the loss of earnings incurred as a result of accompanying the person.

You can have the guardianship order publicly certified.

Employees who take leave to care for a relative have a legal right to an interest-free loan. The loan is intended to help cushion the loss of earnings caused by the reduction in...

The contribution that each and every legally insured person has to pay for long-term care insurance is regulated by law.

Persons in need of care who are basically cared for at home can be cared for at night in a facility.

When taking in a foster child, one-off lump-sum allowances can be approved and transferred with the first care allowance.

Persons entitled to benefits under Book XII of the Social Code (SGB XII) usually also have relatives or relatives who are obliged to pay maintenance. Debtors are required to pay...

People in need of care who are cared for at home can receive up to 125 euros per month from the care insurance fund. The money can be used to relieve the burden on caring relatives or to promote the independence and self-determination of those in need of care in everyday life.

Are you the foster carer of a child in full-time care? Then you will receive professional support and advice from the Foster Children's Service.