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According to the Pensions for Victims of Children’s Homes Act (HOG), "victims of children’s homes" are entitled to a monthly supplementary pension of EUR 421.60 (value 2025) twelve times a year. The prerequisite is that the victim of violence has already received compensation from a victim protection organisation.
Another option is to declare to the Pension Commission of the Ombudsman Board that one was a victim of abuse or violence in a children's or youth home or boarding school, in an infirmary, psychiatric institution, sanatorium or with a foster family. Persons who have been victim of an act of violence in such a private institution are also entitled to the institutional victim's pension if they were referred by a youth welfare office.
Who can apply for a pension for victims of children’s homes?
Persons who were placed as children or adolescents between 10 May 1945 and 31 December 1999
- in a children's or youth home (full boarding school) or
- in an infirmary, psychiatric institution or sanatorium or a comparable institution of the federal government, a regional administration, a municipality or a church institution or
in such a private institution (if assigned by a youth welfare office) or in a foster family and
were victims of an act of violence during this placement.
Persons of retirement age
If you are already receiving one of the following benefits, you are entitled to the pension as long as this benefit is recognised:
- a personal pension or a retirement pension or
- a rehabilitation allowance or
- an orphan's pension or orphan's pension allowance continued due to incapacity for work in accordance with social insurance regulations
Recipients of the basic benefit due to incapacity for work.
Persons who have been unable to work since reaching the age of 18 or since completing school or vocational training and who are entitled to health insurance as dependants and do not receive a pension themselves.