State care allowance for blind and severely disabled people

Blind or severely disabled individuals who have their habitual residence in Bremen are entitled to financial assistance to compensate for disadvantages or additional needs resulting from their disability. The state care allowance is paid as a monthly subsidy and is independent of income and assets:

• The state care allowance currently amounts to 559.73 EUR per month.
• Children under the age of 18 are entitled to the state care allowance, which currently amounts to 279.87 EUR per month, starting from their first birthday.
• Long-term care insurance benefits are fully offset against the state care allowance. As a result, the entitlement to the state care allowance may be reduced or eliminated entirely.
• Income- and asset-dependent long-term care and blindness assistance benefits under SGB XII may also be claimed, if applicable. The state long-term care allowance is offset in full or in part.

Requirements

Persons are considered blind if their better eye has a visual acuity of no more than 2 percent or an equivalent limitation.

Severely disabled are the following persons:

1. Persons with disabilities of the upper extremities equivalent to the loss of both hands (faint-handed) with a substantial handicap.
2. Persons with loss of both arms in the area of the upper arms
3. persons with loss of three limbs
4. Persons with paralysis or other disabilities of movement, if the disabilities are equivalent to the loss of three limbs
5. paraplegic people with paralysis of the bladder and rectum
6. brain-damaged persons with severe physical and mental disorders and disabilities of use of several limbs
7. other persons whose condition requiring permanent hospitalization or whose need for care is so exceptional that their disability is comparable to the disability of persons referred to in points 1 to 6.