Request replacement for damaged or destroyed aids

The Agricultural Workers' Compensation Board will cover the cost of repairing or replacing your assistive device upon application.

Submit the application informally by mail or upload the documents online via the SVLFG portal.

Application by mail:

• Send the required documents to the Social Insurance for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture, stating your insurance number.

Upload application:

• If necessary, register on the service portal of the Social Insurance for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture. When you register, you will receive your personal access data by mail.
• Log in to the service portal.
• Upload and submit the required documents using the mailbox function.

Once the investigation is complete, you will receive feedback on the assumption or reimbursement of costs by the Agricultural Employer's Liability Insurance Association.

The Agricultural Workers' Compensation Board will pay for your damaged or lost assistive device under the following conditions:

• There has been an accident at work:
  • an externally acting on the person,
  • damaging,
  • temporary event
  • during an activity insured under the agricultural accident insurance scheme
• Your tool was damaged or lost in the work accident.
  • You do not necessarily have to have used assistive devices. For example, reading glasses carried in a breast pocket may be damaged in the accident.
  • However, the assistive device must have been worn on the body as intended.
• There must be proof of the accident
  • For example, accident notification by the employer

• Request
• Invoice for the damaged or lost aid
• Cost estimate for the new device
• Invoice for the new device or repair invoice
• Notification of the occupational accident by the employer

There are no costs involved.

• § 8 Absatz 3 Sozialgesetzbuch Siebtes Buch (SGB VII)
• § 31 Absatz 1 Satz 2 Sozialgesetzbuch Siebtes Buch (SGB VII)
• § 27 Absatz 2 Sozialgesetzbuch Siebtes Buch (SGB VII)

• Appeal

For detailed information on how to lodge an appeal, please refer to the decision issued by the Agricultural Employers' Liability Insurance Association.

• Action before the Social Court

Forms available: No
Written form required: No
Informal application possible: Yes
Personal appearance required: No

Online services available: No