THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 105, sig. 110-3/45

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025 in which way they can avail themselves of the other benefits of the health insurance, they are informed by their supervisor at the place of work. For their family members they receive the benefits of family assistance according to the regulations of the statutory health insurance. The eligible family members must contact the district health insurance institution in charge of their place of residence and make it credible in any form that the emergency officer has been used to build up a position in the Prötektorat Bohemia and Moravia. They will then receive the instruction to the doctor from the district medical insurance institution. In so far as emergency workers were insured with the sickness insurance institution of private employees before being employed, the family members may apply to the district health insurance institution for the cash benefits under the law applicable to the health insurance institute of private residents in the event of debirding and death. In the case of emergency workers who were already insured before the employment, the emergency service is counted as a contribution period in the pension insurance. All persons liable for emergency service are subject to the statutory accident insurance of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The insurance institution is the accident insurance institution for Moravia in Brno. In the event of an accident, the person liable for emergency services which he is required to perform in the emergency service may, on request, also receive the more favourable benefits under the personal injury regulations. The application must be submitted to the Pensions Office immediately after the termination of the service. Reigehilfe The provisions of § 9 of Reg.Vdg for the return journey at the end of the emergency service are for the reimbursement of the travel costs for the commencement of emergency service, further for the journey back in justified exceptional cases not in debt by the emergency duty. The same applies to the allowances for meals and overnight expenses during the trip and with regard to travel costs for the required tour guides and the necessary travel companions in the case of collective journeys to carry out a larger number of emergency workers at the external workplace. The funds are provided from the special fund for labour input assistance. Special provisions are laid down for the recording, settlement and reimbursement of the special funds. II. Procedures. The Minister for Economic Affairs and Employment-Reichsvermittung (Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs) is responsible for the total number of persons who are required to work, as well as for the distribution between the various branches of public and economic life and continue to be assigned to the employment offices.