War victims' welfare benefits
The benefits serve to compensate for damage to health as a result of war, military or civilian service or political imprisonment.
Description
The benefits serve to compensate for damage to health caused by war, military or civilian service or political imprisonment. Injured persons and their family members
and surviving dependants are to be supported in all circumstances in order to adequately mitigate the economic consequences of the injury.
War victims' welfare is referred to as such because it is the largest group of beneficiaries, but includes all welfare benefits under social compensation law. War victims' welfare benefits serve to cover current needs. They are generally granted on application and are dependent on the use of income and assets, unless the need is exclusively related to the damage. The amount of the cash benefits is calculated according to the difference between the need to be recognised and the income and assets to be used, whereby here too, as in social welfare, there areprotection amounts and asset exemption limits, the amount of which depends on the specifics of the individual case.
War victims' welfare benefits are:
- Benefits for participation in working life
- Sickness benefit
- Care assistance
- Assistance in maintaining the household
- Assistance for the elderly
- Education allowance
- supplementary living assistance inside and outside institutions
- Recreational assistance
- Housing assistance
- Assistance in special circumstances
Required documents
- Assessment notice from the pension office (ZBFS) regarding the recognised health impairments
- current proof of income and assets
- Proof of the costs of accommodation
Questions & Answers
Who is responsible for assistance if someone moves into a care home and cannot afford the costs from their own resources?
The supra-local war victims' welfare organisation is responsible for assistance with care in institutions. For beneficiaries who had their habitual residence in Munich before entering a care home, this is the district of Upper Bavaria.
Legal basis
§§ Sections 25 - 27j of the Federal Pension Act (BVG)
Sozialreferat
Hilfe zur Lebensführung in Einrichtungen, Kriegsopferfürsorge
Internet
Phone
Postal address
Landeshauptstadt München
Sozialreferat
Hilfe zur Lebensführung in Einrichtungen, Kriegsopferfürsorge
Sankt-Martin-Straße 53
81669 München
Fax: +49 89 233-68499
Address
Sankt-Martin-Straße 53
81669 München