Krankenhilfe für Kinder oder Jugendliche in Pflegefamilien oder in stationären Einrichtungen beantragen

Children or adolescents in foster families or in inpatient facilities for children and youth welfare are entitled to health care assistance.

For

• Children,adolescents andyoung adults who are accommodated outside the family within the framework of child and youth welfare,

and for

• mothers or fathers caring alone for a child under six years of age

are entitled to sickness assistance.Health assistance - comparable to the benefits provided by the statutory health insurance - applies if there is no other health insurance coverage or if this does not fully cover the necessary needs. This means ifthese children, adolescents or young adults become ill, the responsible youth welfare office ensures that the costs are covered

Children, adolescents and young adults who

• live in a foster family
• live in a stationary institution of child and youth welfare ("children's home")
• are in intensive social-pedagogical individual care
• live as a mentally handicapped child or adolescent in a foster family or in an inpatient child and youth welfare facility
• have been taken into care (also temporarily) by the youth welfare office
• are accommodated in a socio-educationally accompanied living arrangement while participating in school or vocational training measures or during vocational integration

mothers or fathers who

• have sole responsibility for a child under the age of six and live with the child in a shared housing arrangement for mothers/fathers/children, and

children who

• live together with their mother or father in a shared living arrangement for mothers/fathers and their children

• A separate application is not required. In order to check the entitlement, the Youth Welfare Office requests the necessary documents in each case.

Sickness assistance can be given to

• Children, adolescents or young adults living in a foster family or in an inpatient child and youth welfare facility ("children's home").
• Children and young people who have been (temporarily) taken into care by the Youth Welfare Office,
• young people who live in a socio-educationally accompanied living arrangement while participating in school or vocational training measures or during vocational integration .
• Mothers or fathers caring alone for a child under six years of age and living with the child in a shared living arrangement for mothers/fathers/children.
• Children living with their mother or father in a shared living arrangement for mothers/fathers and children.

Important:

• Health assistance is only provided if there is no other health insurance coverage or if it does not fully cover the necessary needs.
• The legal guardians or the child or the adolescent or the young adult have a claim.

There are no fees to pay.

• The responsible youth welfare office checks whether health insurance coverage exists elsewhere, for example through family insurance or voluntary continued insurance.
• If there is no priority option for health care or health insurance, the youth welfare office ensures health care (for example, by registering with a statutory health insurance fund).

No deadlines need to be observed.

• Sickness assistance according to §40 SGB VIII Granting
• Sickness assistance for children or adolescents in foster families or inpatient facilities of child and youth welfare.
• A separate application is not required. In order to check the entitlement, the youth welfare office requests the necessary documents in each case.
• The local youth welfare office is responsible

Please contact the local youth welfare office.