You can apply for blindness benefit if you are blind or have a comparably severe visual impairment.

If you meet the eligibility requirements for blindness benefit, the amount of the benefit depends on whether or not you live in an inpatient facility or in a special form of accommodation (integration assistance).

If you live in Lower Saxony outside of an inpatient facility or special form of accommodation, the monthly allowance for the blind is 450 euros. Certain benefits, in particular benefits from long-term care insurance, are partially offset against the allowance for the blind. In these cases, the above-mentioned allowance for the blind would be reduced.

If you live in an inpatient facility or special form of accommodation, the allowance for the blind is 225 euros per month.

You can decide for yourself how you use the allowance.

Are you blind or can only see very poorly?
Then you can receive Blind Person's Allowance.
The allowance for the blind is an aid.
You have to apply for it.

Do you receive care allowance?
Or do you live in an integration assistance program?
Then you will receive less Blinden-Geld.

Do you want to receive Blinden-Geld in Lower Saxony?
Then you must live in Lower Saxony.
And you must have the BL mark.
Or you have applied for the BL mark.

You may have become blind as a result of war.
Or you have become blind as a result of military service.
You may also have become blind as a result of a vaccination.
If so, you cannot apply for this blindness benefit.

• An application must be submitted
• Severely disabled person's pass or notice of assessment with mark Bl
• Documents relating to third-party benefits that are to be offset against the blind person's allowance (e.g. care insurance benefits).
• Certificate of a legal residence permit if you are neither a German citizen nor a citizen of an EU country

Do you want a severely disabled person's pass?
Or do you want a notice of assessment with the Bl mark?
Then you may need to show it:
You receive money from a care insurance company.

You are not a citizen of the EU?
And you want to stay in Germany?
Then you will have to show this to the authorities.

Blind person's allowance is paid at the earliest from the first of the month in which the application for blind person's allowance is submitted.

You will receive the allowance from the month of your application.
Have you made the application?
Then you will start receiving the allowance.