BEG - Nursing costs

The costs of necessary care provided by a nurse or nursing facility are reimbursable if the applicant can be assigned at least to care level 2 within the meaning of Section 15 (3) sentence 4 number 2 of the SGB XI (Elftes Buch Sozialgesetzbuch).

The entitlement to compensation for care costs presupposes that there is an adequate causal link between the recognized suffering from persecution and the need for care.

The compensation authorities are to be informed immediately when nursing becomes imminent. In this case a detailed certification by the doctor giving treatment is to be submitted as to the need for nursing care. Moreover, information is also to be provided as to how and through whom the care is to follow and what provisional costs will be incurred.

By getting a medical appraisal the authorities will then examine whether nursing care is needed as a result of persecution and to what extent a nurse or a nursing home is to be used.

The later reimbursement application must be submitted directly to the responsible compensation authorities. The specific receipts specifying the services provided by the nurse or the nursing home must be sent with the application for reimbursement.