disability
Invalidity has several meanings:
- The permanent impairment of physical and / or mental functioning due to disease or infirmity, to a likewise continuous service - or disability has led.
- War invalids were historically referred to as invalids.
- Also: the opposite of validity in the sense of “(legal) invalidity”.
Origin of the word
The word invalidité or invalide comes from French and goes back to Latin invalidus (= weak, weak, invalid). In the Middle Ages it meant "wounded" ( les invalides , "the wounded"), in the 18th century, invalid was used for unfit or retired soldiers . The word became common in German in the 19th century.
history
In place of the law on invalidity and old-age insurance of June 22nd, 1889 and the law amending §. 157 of the Invalidity and Old Age Insurance Act of June 8, 1891, the Invalidity Insurance Act came into force in the German Reich on January 1, 1900.
It not only regulated disability, but also old-age insurance, the importance of which declined more and more because most insured persons reached the degree of disability required to claim a disability pension before they reached the age of 70. Eligible were persons whose earning capacity was permanently reduced to less than a third due to age (generally from the age of 70), illness or other ailments.
Disability Insurance
As an employee in Germany you are insured against permanent disability or incapacity for work within the assessment ceiling via the statutory pension insurance. It used to be called the disability pension, then the disability pension and now the disability pension .
Supplementary insurance coverage
In addition to occupational disability insurance, private disability insurance includes disability insurance, basic disability insurance, dread disease insurance and private accident insurance, which, however, have different characteristics in terms of their conditions. There are now insurance products that combine various forms of risk protection.
See also
- Reduced ability to work
- Handicapped ID card
- Disability Insurance (Switzerland)
- Invalidity Pension (Austria)
- Invalidity (occupational pension in Switzerland)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon , Definition of Invalidity.
- ↑ Bernhard Pollmann: The Coron Chronicle: the 20th century. tape 1 : 1900-1903. S. 27. Coron Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-577-17101-4 .