Grants and Payment of Aids
Danish citizens, or residents with a residence permit, are eligible for grants to cover expenses for aids required due to illness, amputations, accidents or for some other reason which require body aids or orthopaedic shoes.
Grants are applied for through your local municipality.
The same applies if you need to replace or repair an existing aid.
Without Residence Permit or Citizenship
If you live in a Red Cross asylum you can apply to Red Cross for help to pay for an aid.
The staff at the asylum can guide you about the current regulations.
Grant for Aids
To have your costs covered by the public (Serviceloven § 112) several conditions need to be fulfilled. The process from the outset to the finished aid often looks like this:
- Contact your general practitioner, or another relevant practitioner, who will determine whether you are covered by § 112 in Serviceloven
- The practitioner issues a prescription
- You hand in the prescription to your case officer at the municipality
- The municipality issues the grant
- Bring your grant to Sahva. The process of finding the best product for you will then begin.
Personal Payment of orthopaedic shoes
You will always have to pay part of the expenses for orthopaedic shoes (hand-sewn or adjusted footwear) in addition to the grant. The size of the personal payment is decided every year by Socialministeriet (Ministry of Social Welfare) and is the same for all.
Price of orthopaedic shoes in 2012
In 2012 the personal payment for orthopaedic shoes is set at DKK 800 per pair for adults and DKK 430 per pair for children.
