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Pension
Retiring means much more than concluding your professional life; at the
time of retirement, the average person still has about a quarter of their life to
look forward to. That is why the end of your working life also represents a new
start. Here you will find the services that can support you in your transition to a
new phase of life.
If you are no longer able to work in your previous profession in the mining industry for health reasons, you will receive a pension for miners under certain conditions.
A serious illness may mean that you are unable to work until the normal retirement age. If you are affected, you can apply for a reduced earning capacity pension.
If you are a pensioner with voluntary statutory health insurance or private health insurance with an insurance company, you can apply for a contribution subsidy from Deutsche Rentenversicherung.
If you have been insured for a particularly long time, you can retire without deductions before reaching the standard retirement age under certain conditions.
After the death of one of your parents, you will receive an orphan's pension from the Agricultural Pension Fund under certain conditions. Grandchildren and siblings of the deceased person can also receive an orphan's pension.
If your income or assets are not sufficient to cover your necessary living expenses, you will receive assistance with living expenses (social assistance) under certain conditions.
If you are recognized as a displaced person or ethnic German resettler, you should apply for clarification of your pension insurance account so that your insurance periods from abroad can be taken into account.
If you are self-employed and do not pay contributions, you may lose any benefit entitlements you have already acquired in the statutory pension insurance scheme. You can prevent this by applying for compulsory insurance.
Do you earn more than twelve times the annual mini-job limit outside of agriculture? If so, you can be exempted from compulsory insurance with the agricultural pension fund under certain conditions.
If, according to the registration, there is a certain relationship between you and your employer or if you are a managing partner, the procedure to clarify your employment status with the clearing office is automatically initiated.
You can receive an aftercare benefit from the pension insurance fund if your attending physician at the rehabilitation facility determines the need for aftercare at the end of your medical rehabilitation.
You can receive financial support through the basic income support receive financial support. This helps toto finance living expenses and covers the socio-cultural subsistenceminimum subsistence level.
If spouses, divorced spouses or parents are missing, the pension insurance company can determine the presumed date of death. You can then receive a corresponding pension.
If you are no longer able to work in your previous occupation due to illness or disability, you can receive a partial disability pension under certain conditions. You must have been born before 02.01.1961.
If your earning capacity is reduced by 40 percent or more, you can apply for a lump sum as compensation for a period of 10 years instead of an accident pension
If you have worked underground in the mining industry for a long time, you can apply for an old-age pension for miners who have worked underground for many years under certain conditions.
Are you self-employed as a tradesperson in a craft business? Then, under certain conditions, you are subject to compulsory insurance in the statutory pension insurance scheme.
Are you a compulsory member of a professional pension scheme? Then you can apply for exemption from compulsory insurance in the statutory pension insurance scheme.
As a surviving dependant or surviving spouse, you can apply for a settlement from the agricultural accident insurance instead of a pension in the event of remarriage.
If you receive rehabilitation benefits from the pension insurance fund and your entitlement to continued payment of wages or remuneration ends, you may be entitled to transitional allowance.
If you work as a relative in an agricultural business, you can be exempted from compulsory insurance with the Agricultural Pension Fund under certain conditions.
To check whether the data for your future pension is complete and correct, you can request clarification of your insurance account from the pension insurance fund.
If you would like to find out about the insurance periods you have already completed with the Landwirtschaftliche Alterskasse (LAK), you can request an informal insurance history at any time.
If you are working and the first impairments or complaints appear, German Pension Insurance offers you a free training program with elements on exercise, nutrition and stress management.
If your daughter or son dies as a result of an accident at work, a commuting accident or an occupational disease, you can receive a parental pension under certain conditions.
If your daughter or son dies as a result of an accident at work, a commuting accident or an occupational disease, you can receive a parental pension under certain conditions.
Is your earning capacity limited due to an accident at work, an accident on the way to work or an occupational disease? If so, you may be entitled to an agricultural accident insurance pension under certain conditions.
As a widow, widower or surviving partner in a civil partnership, you can receive a pension from the agricultural employers' liability insurance association under certain conditions.
Have you paid for the funeral of a person who died in an accident at work, a commuting accident or as a result of an occupational disease? Then agricultural accident insurance will reimburse the costs under certain conditions.
If a member of your family has died as a result of an accident at work or on the way to work or as a result of a recognized occupational disease, you can receive death benefits from the statutory accident insurance.
From your 27th birthday, you will receive annual pension information from your pension insurance provider if you have paid contributions for a total of at least 5 years. You can also request the pension information informally at any time.
If your parent has died as a result of an insured event, you will receive an orphan's pension from the statutory accident insurance fund under certain conditions.
Have you paid for the repatriation of a person with statutory accident insurance? Then you can recover the costs if the person dies as a result of an insured event.
Have you paid for the repatriation of a person who died as a result of an accident at work, a commuting accident or an occupational disease? If so, you can get the costs reimbursed under certain conditions.
Are you or were you insured with the Landwirtschaftliche Alterskasse and need information about your future old-age pension entitlements and your pension start date? You can request this informally at any time.
They can apply for special measures to help the elderly in order to enable them to participate independently in life in the community and to strengthen their ability to help themselves.
If you would like to view or use archive material from different periods of German history in the Federal Archives, you will need an approved application for use.
If you lodge a complaint about statutory social insurance institutions with the competent supervisory authority, it will investigate the conduct of the insurance institution for potential violations of the law as part of its legal supervision and work to rectify them.