Pflegezulage für Kriegsopfer

Damaged persons receive a lump-sum care allowance if they are helpless due to their war damage. This care allowance is increased if a caregiver must be hired and the reasonable costs are higher than the lump sum. A part of the lump-sum care allowance is retained by the damaged person.

In the event of temporary inpatient care, the care allowance continues to be paid for a certain period of time.

In the case of permanent inpatient care, the costs of nursing, care, room and board are covered. The benefit is offset against the care allowance, although a portion remains free.

The care allowance is not the same as the care levels of the health insurance.

A claim according to the BVG (Bundesversorgungsgesetz) is only based on persons from the 1st and 2nd World War:

• injured soldiers
• widows and orphans of the fallen
• war victims among the civilian population

Exclusion: Soldiers' Pension Act: Soldiers' Pension Office in Düsseldorf, at the Federal Office for the Personnel Management of the German Armed Forces - Damaged Persons' Pension Office - Wilhelm-Raabe-Strasse 46, 40470 Düsseldorf, Germany

Exclusion: NVA (National People's Army)': Responsibility in Wilhelmshaven, at the Federal and Railway Accident Insurance Fund, Weserstraße 47, 26382 Wilhelmshaven

The care allowance must be applied for at the Office for Care and Integration Bremen.

If the nursing care insurance fund already pays, sometimes the nursing care insurance fund also submits an application.

Processing can take a few months because documents from doctors and caregivers are needed.