Staying healthy

The Künstlersozialkasse (KSK) can only pay you the correct subsidy if it knows how high your contributions for private or voluntary statutory health and long-term care insurance are. You should therefore inform the KSK of any changes to your contributions.

The Künstlersozialkasse will advise you on all questions relating to artists' social insurance.

If you have voluntary or private health insurance, you can apply for a subsidy towards your health insurance.

If you have statutory health insurance, your health insurance fund will contribute to the costs of health courses under certain conditions.

As a rule, you will receive your electronic health card (eGK) automatically from your health insurance company. If you have lost your eGK or it is defective, apply for a new eGK from your health insurance company.

An outpatient cure can help you to avert impending illnesses or the need for long-term care. You can apply to your health insurance fund for this preventive benefit.

If you are unable to work due to your child's illness, you can receive child sickness benefit from your statutory health insurance fund. Under certain conditions, you can transfer the child sickness benefit days to your partner.

If you have paid more than 2 percent of your gross family income as statutory co-payments in the current calendar year, you can be exempted from this for the rest of the year. For the chronically ill, the so-called burden limit is 1 percent.

If you have statutory health insurance, you can insure your children and your spouse or partner free of charge under certain conditions. You submit the application to your statutory health insurance fund.

If you are working or being employed in the food sector for the first time, you will need a certificate from the public health department confirming that you have been instructed in infection protection.

An inpatient preventive care benefit or cure can help you to avert impending illness or the need for long-term care. You can apply to your health insurance fund for preventive care benefits.

You can receive medical rehabilitation benefits from the Landwirtschaftliche Alterskasse (LAK). You must meet certain benefit requirements for this.

Do you belong to a group of people who are not automatically covered by statutory health insurance? Then you can be insured as a voluntary member of a statutory health insurance fund.

You can have the costs of private treatment reimbursed by your statutory health insurance fund under certain conditions.

If you have paid too much for your statutory health insurance and long-term care insurance, you can apply for a refund from your health insurance fund.

If you become subject to compulsory statutory health insurance, you can be exempted in certain cases. You can apply to your statutory health insurance fund.

Outpatient or inpatient preventive care can help you avert impending illness or the need for long-term care. You can apply for preventive care benefits from your health insurance company.

If you as an employee are unable to work for a longer period of time, you can receive sickness benefit to cover the loss of earnings.

If you, as an insured person in the artists' social insurance scheme, have a question or concern in connection with your compulsory insurance, you can contact the Künstlersozialkasse.

Have you had a recognized accident at work or an occupational disease? If so, the agricultural employers' liability insurance association will reimburse you for the associated travel costs under certain conditions.

If you need information on artists' social insurance, you can take part in an information event under certain conditions.

Has your professional situation changed in such a way that you expect a different income from your self-employed artistic or journalistic work? Then you need to adjust your income estimate with the Artists' Social Insurance Fund.

You are free to choose and change your statutory health insurance fund under certain conditions.

Grants that you receive from the Artists' Social Security Fund are finally settled in the following year.

You can make a declaration in the organ donation register as to whether you agree or disagree with organ and tissue donation.

If you change the legal form of your activity or the activity itself, this may have an impact on your insurance obligation with the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK).

If you have statutory health and long-term care insurance through the Künstlersozialkasse, you can change your health insurance fund under certain conditions.

If you are not only self-employed as an artist or journalist, but also carry out other activities or receive social benefits, you must report this to the Künstlersozialkasse.

If your personal data changes, you must inform the Künstlersozialkasse. You should also inform the Künstlersozialkasse if your contact details change or expand.

If your self-employed artistic or journalistic activity has changed in such a way that you no longer carry it out on a professional or do you employ several people? ? Then you can no longer be insured through the artists' social insurance fund.

If you stay or work abroad for a longer period of time, this may affect your German social insurance. You must notify the Künstlersozialkasse of any change in your situation in good time.

If you are exposed to a hazard at work that can cause an occupational disease, you will receive preventive measures under certain conditions.

If you are unable to work due to illness or pregnancy and receive compensation from another source, you do not have to pay social security contributions via the Artists' Social Security Fund.

If you work in the area of statutory health insurance and a service regulation applies to you, you can agree a partial reimbursement of costs. You then initially pay for medical services yourself and are reimbursed for your expenses under certain conditions.

As a self-employed artist or journalist, you can be compulsorily insured under certain conditions.

If you pay too much into your pension insurance, you will receive a refund.

If a veterinary medicinal product or vaccine is suspected of causing adverse effects in an animal, a human or the environment, report this to the competent authority. You can also proceed in the same way for a human medicinal product that has been used in an animal.

If you are insured through the artists' social security fund, you must submit an annual income estimate.

Do you receive a pension from the statutory pension insurance scheme? Then this will affect your insurance status in the artists' social insurance scheme.

If you are subject to compulsory insurance or entitled to subsidies via the Artists' Social Security Fund, you will receive proof of the tax-deductible contributions and subsidies for each year.

If you are subject to compulsory insurance or entitled to a subsidy via the artists' social security fund, you will receive proof of your insurance for each year.

If you are insured through the Künstlersozialkasse, you can prove your insurance status with a current confirmation of insurance.

If you are insured through the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK), you can obtain information about your compulsory insurance and your contribution account from the Künstlersozialkasse at any time. To do this, you must send a request to the KSK.

You can obtain information about the data on occupational radiation exposure stored in the radiation protection register from the Federal Office for Radiation Protection.

If you have submitted a declaration for organ and tissue donation in the organ donation register, you can retrieve it using your declaration ID.

Are you exposed to a risk at work that could lead to the development, aggravation or recurrence of an occupational disease? If so, you are entitled to preventive measures under certain conditions.

Did you provide your photo for the electronic health card (eGK) more than 10 years ago? Then your health insurance company may ask you to submit a new photo.

If there are indications of changes, the Künstlersozialkasse can review your artistic or publishing activities and your income.

If you are insured with the Künstlersozialkasse or are entitled to a subsidy, your income can be checked in an annual random sample.

As a newcomer to the profession, have you not earned the minimum income in the first three years of your work? Then you must prove to the Künstlersozialkasse that you are gainfully employed.

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.

You receive subsidies from your statutory health insurance for dentures. Only in exceptional cases will the health insurance fund cover the cost of implants. Insured persons with a low income may receive financial support.

If you do not pay your contributions to the artists' social security fund regularly, you will have to pay for your medical treatment yourself.