Disability

According to § 240 para. 2 of the SGB VI of the German Social Security Code (pension insurance), insured persons whose ability to work has fallen to < 6 h for health reasons compared to the ability to work of (physically mentally) healthy insured persons with similar training and equivalent knowledge and skills are considered to be disabled. When examining the ability to work, the requirements of the previous (main) occupation must be assumed (objective reasonableness). In contrast to occupational disability, there is still a "usable" residual capacity in the case of occupational disability, which can also be used to generate income through gainful employment.

The main causes of occupational disability include: diseases of the heart and the vascular system (e.g. also phlebological diseases), of the locomotor and skeletal system, tumour diseases, neurological and dermatological diseases, as well as accidents of various kinds.

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