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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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