Apply for a disabled person's pass

You can only apply for a severely disabled person's pass if you have previously been assessed as having a degree of disability of at least 50.

If you submit an application to the competent authority for a determination of disability, you will automatically be issued with a severely disabled person's ID card if your degree of disability has been determined to be at least 50, provided you already have a passport photo.

If this is not the case, but you already have an assessment notice or a corresponding administrative or court decision with a degree of disability of at least 50, you can apply for a severely disabled person's ID card.

Online application:

• Click on "Complete online" to go directly to the online service.
• The online service will guide you through the application process.

Written application:

• As an alternative to applying online, you can also submit a passport photo with your name and reference number for a new severely disabled person's ID card to the relevant office informally by post or email.
  
  • Send this together with the required documents to the relevant office.

Applying on site:

• You can also have a severely disabled person's pass issued in person or by a representative at the relevant office during opening hours.
• Bring a passport photo and the required documents with you.
• The severely disabled person's pass will then be issued on the spot.

If your existing severely disabled person's ID card is lost, damaged or expires, you can also apply for a new severely disabled person's ID card at the relevant office.

The responsible office will check the requirements for issuing the severely disabled person's ID card.

If the requirements are met, the competent office will issue a new severely disabled person's ID card.

If you have applied for a severely disabled person's ID card via the online service or in writing, it will be sent to you by post.

More information

• As a rule, they are issued for an unlimited period of time, with time limits due to follow-up examinations (for certain illnesses: e.g. cancer, diabetes mellitus, mental illness, etc.).
• Exemption from the photo requirement for adults or validity without a photo can be granted on application. The attending physician must confirm that it is no longer medically possible to take photographs.
• If you move within the federal state of Bremen, an informal notification of address (by e-mail, post, fax or telephone) is sufficient.
• The severely disabled person's ID card is now only issued in credit card format.

For children under the age of 10:

• the period of validity of the ID card is limited to the end of the calendar month in which the child turns 10 (= 10th birthday). A photograph is not required up to the age of 10. The card is also valid without a photo.
• Subsequent renewals are then issued until the age of 20 (=20th birthday) at the latest.

• Assessment notice of disability of at least degree 50 or corresponding reference number
• Passport photo (from the age of 10)
  
  • The passport photo can also be scanned and sent by email.
• Valid residence permit in Germany
  
  • For foreign citizens from non-EU countries.
• For representation with written power of attorney
  
  • Additionally: identity card or passport of the authorized person.

• Apply for a disabled person's pass
  

• Application supplement (docx, 23.0 KB)
  

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What deadlines must be paid attention to?

There is no deadline.

In the case of a temporary disabled person's pass, it is advisable to apply 4 weeks before the expiry date.

How long does it take to process

10 days when applying in writing by post, by e-mail or via the online service.
Immediately upon application on site.

• § 152 Sozialgesetzbuch Neuntes Buch (SGB IX)
• Schwerbehindertenausweisverordnung (SchwbAwV)

• Behinderung und Ausweis
• Merkblatt zum Antrag auf einen Schwerbehindertenausweis
• Merkblatt zum Neufeststellungsantrag auf einen Schwerbehindertenausweis