Hilfe zur Gesundheit Erbringung als Sicherstellung von Hilfen für entwicklungsgefährdete und behinderte Kinder und Jugendliche

If you need help to live and do not have health insurance - statutory or private - the social welfare agency provides health assistance.

This includes:

• Support and advice for parents
• Care and nursing services
• Medical treatments
• Therapies such as speech and movement support
• Preventive medical checkups
• Everyday assistance

- Request for health assistance

- Identity card or passport (or other documents that the person can clearly identify)

The competent social assistance institution shall provide information on the documents required in individual cases.

Health assistance is provided to persons who

- who do not have statutory or sufficient private health insurance,

- provision of benefits through the sickness fund is not possible

- and for whom it is not reasonable to raise the funds for the necessary aid from income and wealth.

Health care assistance services for developmental disabilities or handicaps in children:

• Preventive medical services
• Early detection examinations
• Treatments
• Preventive measures
• Counseling

Responsible is the

• the social welfare office of the local social assistance institution

or

• the social welfare office of the local community or local community consulted by the local social welfare institution,

in which the domicile is located.