Health aids
The assistance for health are a benefit to the SGB XII . It is intended to enable people in need who are not insured to have access to health care services.
Eligible
The group of beneficiaries for health assistance is very limited, since since 2004 there has been an option under Section 264 of Book V of the Social Code (SGB V) to register beneficiaries under Book XII of the Social Code who are not insured with a health insurance company, so that these health services are like regular members of the statutory health insurance receive. Only if this possibility does not exist and voluntary health insurance according to § 32 SGB XII is excluded, health assistance can be considered. This is the case, for example, when subsistence benefits are to be drawn for a period shorter than one month.
Services
The services in the context of health aids include:
- preventive health care (§ 47 SGB XII)
- help in the event of illness (§ 48 SGB XII)
- help with family planning (§ 49 SGB XII)
- help with pregnancy and motherhood (Section 50 of Book XII)
- help with sterilization (§ 51 SGB XII)
The scope of the services corresponds to the catalog of services of the statutory health insurances (Section 52 (1) SGB XII).