Survivors' benefit from agricultural accident insurance; receipt

As a survivor or surviving dependant, you can receive benefits from the agricultural accident insurance. This is possible if your relative or dependant has not died as a result of an insured event.

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As a survivor or surviving dependant, you are entitled to a one-off benefit from agricultural accident insurance under certain conditions. This applies to

Widows and widowers
Life partners
Orphans (including adopted children)

The amount of the one-off benefit is 40 percent of the determined annual earnings that were the basis for calculating the pension at the time of your or your relative's death.

Under certain circumstances, it is possible to receive an ongoing allowance instead of a one-off payment. You will receive the ongoing benefit if this would probably be more advantageous for you. The Landwirtschaftliche Berufsgenossenschaft (LBG) examines this, decides on a case-by-case basis at its own discretion and justifies its decision. The maximum amount of an ongoing allowance is equal to the survivor's pension.

Entitlement to survivors' benefits exists if:

an insured person was receiving an injury pension following a reduction in earning capacity (MdE) of at least 50 percent at the time of death and
the death of the insured person is not the result of an accident at work or an occupational disease and therefore there is no entitlement to a survivor's pension from the statutory accident insurance.

Additional requirements for widows, widowers and surviving registered partners:

Widower or widow status exists.
It was not a pension marriage.

Additional requirements for orphans:

There is an assumed orphan's pension entitlement (i.e. the orphan would be entitled to an orphan's pension if the insured person died as a result of an insured event under statutory accident insurance).
The orphan was living with the deceased person at the time of death.
The orphan was mainly supported by the deceased person.

Requirements for ongoing benefit:

At the time of death, your relative was receiving one or more pensions from the agricultural accident insurance scheme, which

together with other pensions from the statutory accident insurance, if applicable, reach an MdE of 80 percent,
was/are drawn for at least 10 years and
there is evidence of a loss of at least 10 percent in the survivors' benefits from the statutory pension insurance.

Required Documents
- Marriage certificate
- death certificate
- for orphans: Birth certificate, death certificate of the other parent

You do not have to apply for the survivor's allowance. The entitlement is determined ex officio by the agricultural accident insurance:

The LBG learns of the insured event or the death of your relative.
Based on the insured event and the cause of death, the LBG will check whether you are entitled to survivors' benefits.

If you are entitled to benefits, you will receive a notification from the LBG.