Receiving death benefits from the agricultural accident insurance fund

You do not have to apply for the death grant. The Agricultural Employer's Liability Insurance Association examines the claim for death benefits ex officio.
The Agricultural Employer's Liability Insurance Association will inform the possible beneficiaries known to it in order to enable them to register their claims.
You can still contact the Agricultural Employer's Liability Insurance Association.

In order to receive death benefits, the following conditions must be met:

• Death is the result of an insured event under the agricultural accident insurance, i.e.
  • an accident at work,
  • an accident on the way to work
  • an occupational disease.
• You have paid for the funeral.
• You are a survivor or survivors.
• You are not a survivor or survivors, but you paid for the burial.

If you paid for the funeral but are not a survivor or survivors:

• There are no survivors entitled to the death benefit.

As a person entitled to benefits, but who is not a survivor or surviving dependant:

• Proof of payment and amount of funeral expenses, for example, invoice.

There are no costs for you.

You do not have to meet any deadlines.

usually immediately, maximum 4 to 6 weeks

• § 63 Absatz 1 Sozialgesetzbuch Siebtes Buch (SGB VII)
• § 64 Absatz 1 Sozialgesetzbuch Siebtes Buch (SGB VII)
• § 18 Absatz 1 Sozialgesetzbuch Viertes Buch (SGB IV)

• Appeal
  For detailed information on how to lodge an appeal, please refer to the decision of the Agricultural Employers' Liability Insurance Association.
  
• Action before the social court

Forms: none

Online procedure possible: no

Written form required: no

Personal appearance required: no