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Occupational disease; receipt of a transitional benefit for persons with statutory accident insurance
If you are no longer working due to an occupational disease, you can receive a transitional benefit from the statutory accident insurance.
Online services
Online services
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Online eine Mitteilung an Ihre Berufsgenossenschaft oder Unfallkasse senden (für Versicherte)You can submit notifications and applications online via the accident insurance service portal.
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Description
The so-called transitional benefit is intended to give you financial security if you have less money because you have given up work that is harmful to your health.
Be sure to contact your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund before you give up your job.
You can receive the transitional benefit either as a one-off payment or as a recurring payment. You can receive the transitional benefit for a maximum of 5 years.
Your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will calculate the amount of your transitional benefit on a case-by-case basis. You can find out how your transitional benefit is calculated in your case from your social accident insurance institution.
Transitional benefit is also known as compensation for reduced earnings.
Requirements
- You have been diagnosed with an occupational disease or an imminent occupational disease.
- In order to prevent the occupational disease from worsening or developing, you had to give up the work that caused the illness.
- Because you no longer work in your previous occupation, you have a lower income.
Required documents
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Required Documents
- Proof of income
- Proof of earnings
- Tax documents
- Proof of pension
- Wage replacement certificates
Proceedings
Your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will check your entitlement to transitional benefits ex officio. This means that you do not have to apply for the transitional benefit. Your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will send you a form. You can return the completed form online or by post.
Online service:
- Call up 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 reply from your social accident insurance institution 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 reply by post, you can continue without registering.
- Select your responsible employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund or find them using the industry search.
- Upload the required documents.
- Complete the online form and send it off.
- Your notification will be automatically forwarded to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
- You will receive feedback via the desired channel.
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 notification electronically there if necessary.
Message by post:
- Complete the form and provide evidence of how much money you have earned or are earning before and after giving up the harmful activity.
- Send the completed form to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
- Your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will calculate the financial loss that you have incurred as a result of giving up the harmful activity.
- Your social accident insurance institution will decide on the amount of your transitional benefit, inform you in writing and pay you the benefit.
Fees
There are no costs.
Deadlines
There is no deadline.
Processing time
1 to 3 months
Legal bases
Appeal
- Appeal
- Detailed information on how to lodge an appeal can be found in the notification from your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
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Status: 10.03.2025
Editorially responsible for prodecure description: Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales
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