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Vaccination injury - apply for compensation for victims of vaccination injuries

Impfschaden - Entschädigung für Opfer von Impfschäden beantragen
Machine translation of the German page, 2026-09-15. The German original is binding.
An Impfschaden (vaccination injury) is a health impairment that arose as a reaction to a publicly recommended Schutzimpfung (vaccination). The health impairment must still be present 6 months after the vaccination. For the health-related and economic consequences, you can receive benefits under the Infektionsschutzgesetz (Infection Protection Act, IfSG). This also applies to the Covid-19 vaccines approved in Germany. The following benefits are possible: • Heilbehandlung (medical treatment) (medical rehabilitation, assumption of costs for an inpatient stay, orthopedic aids, health cures) • Pension payments depending on the severity of the health impairment caused by the vaccination • Hinterbliebenenversorgung (survivors' benefits) (widow's, widower's, orphan's and parents' pension) • Bestattungs- und Sterbegeld (funeral and death grant) If the previous occupation can, as a result of the vaccination injury, only be carried out to a limited extent or no longer at all, • Benefits for participation in working life (e.g. retraining) • Benefits to compensate for the economic consequences (e.g. Berufsschadensausgleich (occupational damage compensation)) may be granted.

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Requirements

• The vaccination was publicly recommended • e.g. by the Bundesgesundheitsministerium (Federal Ministry of Health) or a state health authority (in Berlin: Senatsverwaltung für Gesundheit, Pflege und Gleichstellung [Senate Department for Health, Care and Equality]) • e.g. flu vaccination, Covid-19 vaccination • The vaccination was legally mandated such as the measles vaccination for teachers and medical staff • Damage has persisted for at least 6 months The health damage resulting from the vaccination, or its consequences, is still present after six months.

Documents you need

• Application for the granting of benefits (under "Forms") • Vaccination certificate

Forms

• Application for benefits www.berlin.de/lageso/_assets/versorgung/publikationen/antrag • Application for benefits for surviving dependants www.berlin.de/lageso/_assets/versorgung/publikationen/ifsg_h

Fees

none

Legal basis

• Social Code Book (SGB XIV) § 24 www.gesetze-im-internet.de/sgb_14/__24.html

Processing time

270 days

Further information

• Vaccine injury following COVID-19 vaccination (Covid-19 vaccinations) as well as other vaccinations (Landesamt für Gesundheit und Soziales [State Office for Health and Social Affairs]) www.berlin.de/lageso/versorgung/soziales-entschaedigungsrech • Vaccination: approved vaccines (Paul-Ehrlich-Institut [federal institute for vaccines and biomedicines]) www.pei.de/DE/arzneimittel/impfstoffe/covid-19/covid-19-node • Vaccination - report a side effect (service) service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/328137/

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Original

German original

Service number 330703 · same path as the original: service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/330703/