Dienstleistungsportal Bayern

Description

Prerequisites

An entitlement to survivors' benefits exists if:

• an insured person was receiving a pension or pensions with a total reduction in earning capacity of at least 50 percent from the statutory accident insurance scheme at the time of death after a reduction in earning capacity of at least 50 percent, and
• the death of the insured person was not the result of an occupational accident or disease, and
• there is no entitlement to a survivor's pension from the statutory accident insurance.

In the case of widows, widowers and surviving registered partners:

• The marriage was not a pension marriage.

In the case of full orphans:

• There is a fictitious orphan's pension entitlement and
• the orphan lived in the same household as the deceased at the time of death, and
• the orphan was mainly maintained by the deceased.

Procedure

You do not have to apply for the surviving dependents' allowance. The claim will be determined by the responsible employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund on its own initiative ("ex officio"):

• Your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund learns of the insured event or the death of your family member.
• On the basis of the insured event and the cause of death, the employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will check whether you are entitled to survivors' benefits.

You can also contact your Berufsgenossenschaft or Unfallkasse online or by mail.

Online service:

• Call 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 workers' compensation association or accident insurance fund in the mailbox of your BundID account or My Company Account, you must have an account and authenticate.
  • 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 is automatically forwarded to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
• You will receive a response via the requested 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 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.

Deadlines

There is no deadline.

Processing time

For the processing of a one-time grant. (2 to 3 weeks)

Required documents

• Required Documents

  • Death certificate

  in the case of a spouse:

  • Marriage certificate

  as orphan:

  • Birth certificate
  • Death certificate of the other parent

Fees

• There are no costs involved.

Legal bases

• § 71 Siebtes Buch Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB VII)

Remedy

• 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.

Links to more information

• Informationen zu den Leistungen für Hinterbliebene von der Deutschen Gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung (DGUV)

Related issues

• Compensation in the statutory accident insurance; application in case of reduction of earning capacity below 40 percent
• Pension from statutory accident insurance; receipt