Care insurance benefits

The statutory nursing care insurance provides its insured term care a varied offer of help available. We inform you about the application procedure and the care insurance benefits.
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Exemption from work

Employees have after Pflegezeitgesetz the possibility to freely ask for the care of a close relative up to ten days off from work (short-term absence from work) or up to six months to take care of time.

After the law to reconcile family, work and care workers can since 1 January 2015, during the ten-day exemption a so-called maintenance support monetary relate, which is the medical insurance fund paid (analogous to children sick pay).

Care timekeeper can an interest-free loan from the Federal Office for family and civic duties (BAFzA) claim.

Family care leave

According to the law to reconcile family, work and care workers are entitled to family care leave. This allows reducing the working time up to 15 hours a week. The content here is computationally initially reduced accordingly and then increased by half of the shortened amount again. The employer, therefore, occurs here in advance. Then the employee as long as the abbreviated content gets all of which were working until the advance is balanced.

As with the maintenance time for the employee is entitled to an interest-free loan by the BAFzA.

Special protection against dismissal

Employees who make use of the exemption for short-term absence from work or the maintenance time, enjoy special protection against dismissal.

The employer may not terminate them from the date of announcement, but not earlier than 12 weeks before the announced start until the end of the maintenance period. Exceptionally, a termination in special cases is possible, when the factory inspectorate permit termination. Information on protection against dismissal after Pflegezeitgesetz grant inspectorates .