Status: 01/28/2023 12:44 p.m
According to a newspaper report, around 6,000 applications for financial aid due to health damage as a result of a corona vaccination have been made so far. Only a fraction of the cases processed so far have been recognized by the authorities in the federal states.
According to a newspaper report, the federal states have so far approved 253 applications for compensation for a serious undesirable side effect of the corona vaccination. According to a nationwide survey by “Welt am Sonntag” (WamS), the frontrunners are among the pension offices of the states of Bavaria with 61 and North Rhine-Westphalia with 38 approved applications.
1808 applications were therefore rejected, 3968 more are still being processed. Inflammation of the heart muscle, sinus vein thrombosis and the Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare disease of the nerves, are mainly recognized as vaccine damage. According to WamS, there are also occasional deaths.
How much the vaccine damage will ultimately cost the state cannot be specifically quantified at this point in time. On the one hand, this is due to the applications that are still being processed or could follow. On the other hand, the amount and scope of state care depends on the extent of the damage and its health and economic consequences.
According to the report, above a certain degree of damage, the state offers a lifelong basic pension of between 164 and 854 euros per month. In addition, if necessary, the treatment costs will be covered and an occupational damage compensation will be paid.
In Hesse, for example, people with recognized vaccination damage received an average of 1,395 euros per month in 2021. According to the WamS, surviving dependents of those who have been vaccinated are also entitled to state benefits as well as burial and death benefits. The countries bear the costs.
According to the Robert Koch Institute, a total of around 65 million people nationwide have received an initial vaccination against the corona virus.