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If you are helpless as a result of an injury, you can apply for a monthly care allowance.

If you are helpless as a result of an injury, you can apply for a monthly care allowance.

Helplessness is assumed, for example, in the case of these health disorders recognized as consequences of injury:

• Blindness and severe visual impairment
• Paraplegia and other disabilities that require the permanent and constant use of a wheelchair, including within the home
• Brain damage, seizure disorders, mental disability and psychoses, if these health disorders alone result in a degree of impairment (GdS) of 100
• Loss of two or more limbs, excluding amputation of the lower leg or foot on both sides

The principles set out in the Versorgungsmedizin-Verordnung (VersMedV) apply to the determination of helplessness and the levels of care allowance.

You are deemed to be helpless if you require permanent external assistance for a series of frequently and regularly recurring activities to ensure your personal existence.

This also applies if:

• the assistance is required in the form of supervision or guidance

or

• the assistance does not have to be provided on a permanent basis, but constant readiness to provide assistance is required.

• Documents to determine helplessness (expert opinion from the medical service of the health/nursing care insurance fund, if available)

• Helplessness must be present

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The assessment of whether and, if so, to what extent a disability-related helplessness exists is usually carried out by means of a medical assessment (possibly as part of a home visit).

• Determination when applying for a care allowance in the context of social compensation law
• Injured persons who are helpless as a result of the injury can apply for a monthly care allowance.
• The principles set out in the VersorgungsmedizinVerordnung (VersMedV) are decisive for determining helplessness and the levels of care allowance.
• The local pension authorities in the individual federal states are responsible for implementation