Blindengeld Gewährung

The state care allowance for blind and severely disabled people is granted to compensate for disability-related disadvantages. It is a lump-sum cash benefit.

People who are blind or severely visually impaired or have a severe disability and who usually live in Bremerhaven are entitled to financial support to compensate for disability-related disadvantages or additional needs. The state care allowance is paid as a monthly allowance and is independent of income and assets:

• The state care allowance currently amounts to 494.97 euros per month.
• Children under the age of 18 are entitled to a state care allowance of currently 247.49 euros per month from the age of one.
• Blind and severely disabled people who live in an institution and for whom the costs of their stay are fully or partially covered by public funds receive 50 percent of the state care allowance. Self-payers who live in an institution are not entitled to state care allowance. In this case, the benefits provided by the care insurance fund are taken into account in full.
• Care insurance benefits are offset in full against the state care allowance. This can reduce or completely eliminate the entitlement to state care allowance.
• The income- and asset-dependent care and blindness assistance benefits according to SGB XII can also be claimed if necessary. The state care allowance is offset in full or in part.

• Personal data with addition of corresponding evidence upon request

  (usually identity card or passport or residence permit)

• Proof of blindness (at least one proof required):
  • Specialist medical certificate of blindness
  • Severely disabled person's pass with the mark "BL" or a notice of assessment in accordance with SGB IX from the pension office

  If the above-mentioned certificate of severe disability/assessment notice is not available, the eligibility requirements will be checked by means of a medical report.

• When applying for minors:

  Declaration of intent by the legal representative (if you are a parent or legal guardian)

• With support from third parties:

  Power of attorney (if you ask third parties for help with the application)

• With support:

  Guardianship certificate (if you have a legally appointed guardian)

• Application for state care allowance

  You can find the application under "Forms"

Persons are considered blind if their better eye has a visual acuity of no more than 2 percent or an equivalent impairment.

The following persons are severely disabled:

1. Persons with disabilities of the upper extremities that are equivalent to the absence of both hands (amblyopia) with a substantial disability
2. Persons with loss of both arms in the area of the upper arms
3. Persons with loss of three limbs
4. Persons with paralysis or other mobility impairments if the disabilities are equivalent to the loss of three limbs
5. paraplegics with bladder and rectal paralysis
6. brain-damaged people with severe physical and mental disorders and impaired use of several limbs
7. other persons whose condition requiring permanent hospitalization or whose need for care is so exceptional that their disability is comparable to the disability of the persons mentioned in numbers 1 to 6.

• You contact the local competent authority and apply for the state care allowance.
• The application is valid from the month of application. This can be done by telephone, post or e-mail.
• The authority will check your application and contact you if there are any queries or missing documents.
• Once all documents have been submitted, the authority will check your entitlement to state care allowance.
• After the review, you will receive a notice of approval or rejection.