Receiving child injury benefit from statutory accident insurance

The procedure varies depending on whether your child has family insurance with your statutory health insurance fund or statutory or private health insurance with the other parent.

If the child has family insurance with your statutory health insurance fund:

• Your doctor will issue a medical certificate for the receipt of sickness benefit when the child is ill.
• Submit the certificate to your health insurance fund.
• Your health insurance fund will pay you the child care injury benefit on behalf of the relevant accident insurance fund.

If the child has statutory or private health insurance with the other parent:

• The accident insurance fund of the federal state in which the kindergarten or school is located is responsible.
• Your doctor will issue a medical certificate for the receipt of sickness benefit if your child is ill.
• Submit an application (in writing or by telephone) to the relevant accident insurance fund for child care injury benefit.

You can also contact the accident insurance fund online or by post.

Online service:

• Call up the online service.
• You will be guided through the procedure on the accident insurance service portal.
• You can log in.
• If you would like to receive a reply from your Berufsgenossenschaft 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 logging in.
• 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:

• Send an informal letter to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
• Make sure you provide the required information and enclose the necessary documents.

You are entitled to child injury benefit if:

• you have to supervise, look after or care for a child in your household due to the consequences of an insured event (school and kindergarten accident),
• your child has not yet reached the age of 12,
• you were entitled to a wage or other cash benefit (e.g. sickness benefit, unemployment benefit) before you supervised, looked after or cared for your child and
• no other person living in your household can look after your child.

• Medical certificate in case of illness of a child

Please contact your local accident insurance fund to find out whether you need to submit further documents.

There are no costs.

There is no deadline.

• § Section 45 (4) of the Seventh Book of the German Social Code (SGB VII)
• § Section 45 of the Fifth Book of the German Social Code (SGB V)

• 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.

Forms available: No

Written form required: No

Informal application possible: Yes

Personal appearance necessary: No

Online services available: Yes

22.12.2022