Apply for sickness assistance under the Child and Youth Welfare Act
The health assistance covers the full amount of the necessary requirements in the individual case. As a person with statutory health insurance, you must pay the usual co-payments and personal contributions within the limits of your financial possibilities.
Note: The youth welfare office can also pay contributions for voluntary health insurance. These must be reasonable.
Responsible authority
the local youth welfare office
Youth Welfare Office is,
- if you live in a city district: the city administration
- if you live in a rural district: the Landratsamt (district administration office)
Note: The city of Constance performs the tasks as local youth welfare agency itself. The city of Villingen-Schwenningen has handed over the municipal youth welfare office to the Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis on 01.07.2023.
Contact
Details
Prerequisite
You receive
- help with education or
- integration assistance
This includes the following types of help:
- Full-time care
- Home education or other assisted living
- intensive individual socio-educational support
- Integration assistance for children and young people with mental disabilities:
- in full-time care,
- in home education or
- in another form of assisted living
Procedure
You do not have to make an additional application for health assistance. As a rule, this will be awarded to you together with the youth welfare benefit applied for.
Deadlines
None
Required documents
Check with the relevant office.
Costs
None
Miscellaneous
None
Legal basis
Sozialgesetzbuch Achtes Buch (SGB VIII)
- § 40 Krankenhilfe
Release note
machine generated, based on the German release by: 28.08.2023 Sozialministerium Baden-Württemberg