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If you are helpless as a result of an injury, you can claim a monthly care allowance.

Helplessness is assumed, for example, in the case of these health impairments that are recognised as consequences of an injury:

• blindness and severe visual impairment
• Paraplegia and other disabilities that require the use of a wheelchair permanently and permanently, even within the living space.
• Brain damage, seizure disorders, mental retardation and psychoses, if these health disorders alone cause a degree of impairment of 100
• Loss of two or more limbs, with the exception of amputation of the lower leg or foot on both sides.

The principles set out in the Versorgungsmedizin-Verordnung (VersMedV - Ordinance on Medical Care) apply to the determination of helplessness and the levels of the care allowance.

You are considered helpless if you permanently need outside help for a number of frequently and regularly recurring activities to secure your personal existence.

This also applies if:

• the assistance is required in the form of supervision or guidance

or

• the assistance does not have to be provided permanently, but a constant readiness to provide assistance is required.

• Helplessness must be present

• Documents to determine helplessness (report of the medical service of the health/care insurance fund, if available)

None

The examination as to whether and, if so, to what extent an impairment-related helplessness exists is usually carried out by means of a medical assessment (possibly in the context of a home visit).

Benefits are provided on request.

Brandenburg State Office for Social Affairs and Care (LASV).

• § Section 35 (1) of the Federal Pension Act (BVG)
• Medical care prescription (VersMedV)

Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Health and Equality