• You must prove that you are insured in the event of illness, for example
  • have private health insurance.
  • You will continue to receive your allowance or free military welfare and your salary in the event of illness. This is the case for
    • civil servants
    • in the police service or
    • in the German armed forces.
• You can apply for exemption from compulsory insurance if
  • the statutory annual income limit for compulsory insurance is increased and your annual income is now below the annual income limit.
  • you receive unemployment benefit and have not had statutory health insurance in the past 5 years.
  • you reduce your weekly working hours by at least 50 percent and you have been exempt from compulsory insurance for at least 5 years.
  • You reduce your weekly working hours due to care or family care leave.
  • you work part-time for a maximum of 30 hours per week during parental leave.
  • you take up part-time employment after parental, nursing or family care leave, you have also been exempt from insurance for at least 5 years and your income would be above the annual income limit if you worked full-time.
  • you become subject to compulsory insurance because you are drawing a pension.
  • you take part in a measure, for example pension insurance, to help you participate in working life.
  • You start a course of study.
  • You are doing an unpaid internship, for example.
  • you are employed as a person with a disability in a facility, for example a recognized workshop for people with disabilities.
    

There are no indications or special features.