Apply for a lump sum for a carer

If you personally care for a permanently helpless person in your or their home in Germany or another EU/EEA country and do not receive any income for this, you can be granted a lump sum for the expenses incurred.
Income is, for example, the care allowance that the helpless person receives from a care insurance company and passes on to you in order to pay for your care services or to reimburse you for the expenses incurred. If the care allowance is only used to directly secure the necessary basic care of the helpless person (payment of an external caregiver, purchase of items necessary for or facilitating care), there is no income.
The care allowance received by the parents of a disabled child for this child does not count as income.
The lump-sum care allowance is regularly only granted for the care of relatives. If care is provided by more than one person, the lump-sum care allowance is to be divided according to the number of carers. If one person receives income for this, this person is not to be included in the division.
The lump-sum care allowance can also be taken into account in addition to the lump-sum disability allowance transferred from the child to the parents.

Requirements

• Expenses due to personal care
• Care is provided to a person in need of care (from care level 2)
• The caregiver receives no income
• The care is provided in the carer's home or in the home of the person in need of care.
  
  • The home is in Germany or in another EU/EEA country

What documents do I need?

• Severely disabled person's pass with the mark "H" or
  

  The need for care is confirmed by a severely disabled person's pass with the mark "H"

• Care level 2
  

  Notification of classification as a person in need of care (from care level 2)