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Reporting months spent abroad by employees to the statutory accident insurance scheme

If your employees have worked abroad, you must report the duration to your employers' liability insurance association or the Federal and Railway Accident Insurance on request.

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Voluntary foreign insurance contributions are levied separately from domestic accident insurance contributions. The basis for the contributions for the foreign insurance is the number of months in which your employees work abroad. Partial months are calculated in full.

It may happen that an assignment abroad ends prematurely, but the employers' liability insurance association or the Federal and Railways Accident Insurance Fund does not find out about this. In order for the contributions to be calculated correctly, the Employer's Liability Insurance Association or the Federal and Railway Accident Insurance will ask your company whether the stored months abroad are correct.

Here, your company has the opportunity to correct the months abroad previously registered with the employers' liability insurance association or the Federal and Railway Accident Insurance in good time.

  • Employees of your company have worked abroad.
  • They were insured by way of voluntary foreign insurance.

  • Required Documents
    • List with the names of all insured persons in the past calendar year and the dates of their stay abroad

You can report an employee's months abroad for which insurance is required online or by mail.

Online service:

  • Access the online service.
  • You will be guided through the process on the Accident Insurance Service Portal.
  • You can log in.
    • If you would like to receive the response 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 response by mail, you can also proceed without logging in.
  • Select your responsible employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund or determine it using the industry search.
  • Upload the required documents.
  • Fill out the online form and submit it.
  • Your report will automatically be forwarded to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
  • You will receive a response by the requested method.

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 notification electronically there, if necessary.

Message by mail:

  • Contact your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund with an informal letter.
  • Make sure you provide the required information and enclose the necessary documents.

There are no costs involved.

6 weeks after the end of the calendar year, your company must report the months abroad.

Months abroad are queried in the period from January to March of each year. (1 bis 3 Monate)

There are no clues or specifics.

  • Appeal
  • Detailed information on how to lodge an appeal can be found in the notification from your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.

Status: 10.03.2025
Editorially responsible for prodecure description: Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales
Source: Federal Portal