Population - Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich
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Employed persons are registered by their employers with their competent health insurance institution;<br />
self-employed persons (new self-employed/free-lancers, self-employed/free-lancers with a business<br />
license (Gewerbeschein)) have to personally contact their competent health insurance company<br />
(Social Security Institution of Trade and Industry (Sozialversicherungsanstalt der Gewerblichen<br />
Wirtschaft)).<br />
http://www.sozialversicherung.at (general information)<br />
http://www.sozialversicherung.at/ (Who is covered by insurance?)<br />
http://www.help.gv.at/ (benefits from the legally prescribed health insurance)<br />
http://www.arbeiterkammer.at/ (exemption from prescription fees)<br />
useful addresses:<br />
http://www.sozialversicherung.at/ (you can find the addresses of health insurance institutions<br />
and other social security institutions under SV-Träger (social security institutions))<br />
8.2 accident insurance<br />
Accident insurance covers benefits payable as a result of workplace accidents, occupational illnesses<br />
and the accidental death of an employee.<br />
These benefits include for instance accident treatment costs, rehabilitation, disability pensions,<br />
surviving dependants’ pensions and widow/widower allowance.<br />
http://www.auva.at (social accident insurance)<br />
http://www.sozialversicherung.at/ (accident insurance)<br />
useful addresses:<br />
austrian accident insurance<br />
Institution – main office (Allgemeine<br />
Unfallversicherungsanstalt –<br />
AUVA – Hauptstelle)<br />
Adalbert Stifter Straße 65<br />
A-1200 Vienna<br />
Tel: +43 1 331 11-0<br />
Internet: http://www.auva.at<br />
8.3 pensions insurance<br />
Living & Working in Austria 2013<br />
main association of austrian social<br />
security institutions (Hauptverband der<br />
<strong>Österreich</strong>ischen Sozialversicherungsträger)<br />
Kundmanngasse 21<br />
A-1031 Vienna<br />
Tel: +43 1 711 32-0<br />
Internet: http://www.sozialversicherung.at<br />
In Austria females currently reach pensionable age at 60 and men at 65.<br />
The following applies to EU/EEA citizens and Swiss citizens:<br />
Pursuant to Austrian law you are entitled to pension benefits if you have been self-employed or<br />
employed for over one year and have paid pension insurance contributions. Insurance periods below<br />
one year will be added to the pension insurance periods obtained in your home country.<br />
http://www.sozialversicherung.at (pension insurance)<br />
http://www.arbeiterkammer.at/ (pension)<br />
http://www.pensionsversicherung.at/ (general information in several languages)<br />
http://www.help.gv.at/ (pension)<br />
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