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After a settlement, reapply for a widow's or widower's pension from statutory accident insurance
Even if you have received a settlement in the course of remarriage, you can again receive a survivor's pension from the statutory accident insurance upon application and under certain conditions.
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Eine Witwen- oder Witwerrente der gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung nach einer Abfindung online beantragenÜber das Serviceportal der Unfallversicherung können Sie Meldungen und Anträge online einreichen.
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Description
The employers' liability insurance associations and accident insurance funds will pay you a survivor's pension. The prerequisite for this is that you were married until the death of the insured person. The same applies to registered civil partnerships. In addition, the insured person must have died as a result of an insured event, such as an accident at work.
If you remarry or enter into a new civil partnership, your entitlement to the survivor's pension ends. But you will receive a settlement equal to 24 times the monthly amount of the survivor's pension.
You may again receive a previously settled survivor's pension from the statutory accident insurance if the first remarriage or the first new civil partnership is
- dissolved (divorced),
- annulled or declared null and void.
An application is required for this purpose.
It may be that you also have claims to a survivor's pension, pension, maintenance or other pension in connection with another marriage or partnership. Please indicate this on the application. Under certain circumstances, several benefits may be offset against each other.
Requirements
- The new marriage or the first new civil partnership under the Civil Partnership Act was dissolved, annulled or declared null and void.
- The remarriage or new civil partnership immediately followed the marriage or partnership from which a pension entitlement existed.
Required documents
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Required Documents
- certified annulment, dissolution or declaration of nullity of the first remarriage or civil partnership in accordance with the Civil Partnership Act.
- Your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will tell you which other documents are required in your case, or you can find this out from the (online) application form.
Proceedings
You can submit your request online or by mail.
Online service:
- Access the online service.
- You will be guided through the process on the Accident Insurance Service Portal.
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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.
Fees
There are no costs involved.
Deadlines
There is no deadline.
Processing time
1 bis 3 Monate
Special notes
There are no clues or specifics.
Legal bases
Appeal
- 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.
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Status: 09.03.2025
Editorially responsible for prodecure description: Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales
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