responsibility finder
Schleswig-Holstein

Service Description

Process flow

You can submit your request online or by post.

Online notification:

• Call up the online form on the federal portal verwaltung.bund.de. This will guide you step by step through the necessary information, which you can enter electronically.
• Note: You will need your electronic ID document to register for the online form.
• It will take you about 15 minutes to complete the online form.
• First enter your personal details, including your insurance number. You will find this in the top right-hand corner of the letter from the Künstlersozialkasse.
• On the next page, select your request.
• When you make your selection, you will receive general information about your request.
• You then provide more detailed information about your request and upload any required documents.

Notification by post:

• If you would like to notify us of the cessation of your gainful artistic or journalistic self-employment in connection with the commencement of dependent employment, please complete the PDF form "Notification of the commencement/termination of dependent employment" on the website of the Künstlersozialkasse.
• If you would like to notify us of the cessation of your gainful artistic or journalistic self-employment in connection with the receipt of unemployment benefit I, unemployment benefit II or citizens' allowance, please complete the PDF form "Notification of the receipt/end of receipt of unemployment benefit I (ALG I)/unemployment benefit II (ALGII)/citizens' allowance" on the website of the Künstlersozialkasse.
• If you wish to notify us that you are giving up your gainful artistic or journalistic self-employment in connection with taking up a course of study, please complete the PDF form "Notification of taking up/termination of studies" on the website of the Künstlersozialkasse.
• If you wish to notify us that you are giving up your gainful artistic or journalistic self-employed activity in connection with the commencement of a self-employed non-artistic or non-publishing activity or the registration of such a business, please complete the PDF form "Notification of the commencement of a self-employed non-artistic/non-publishing (secondary) activity" on the website of the Künstlersozialkasse.
• If you would like to notify us of the termination of your self-employed artistic or journalistic activity in connection with parental leave, please complete the PDF form "Notification of termination of activity due to parental leave" on the website of the Künstlersozialkasse.
• If you would like to notify us of the cessation of your gainful artistic or journalistic self-employment in connection with the receipt of a pension, please complete the PDF form "Notification of the receipt of a pension from the statutory pension insurance scheme" on the website of the Künstlersozialkasse.
• If you wish to notify the Artists' Social Insurance Fund that you are giving up your gainful artistic or journalistic self-employment for other reasons or that you are employing several workers, please inform the Artists' Social Insurance Fund informally.
• Please always include your insurance number. You will find this number in the top right-hand corner of the letter from the Künstlersozialkasse.
• Sign your informal notification or the printed PDF form and enclose the required documents.
• Send everything together to the Künstlersozialkasse.

Please answer any queries from the Künstlersozialkasse immediately.
The Künstlersozialkasse will check your details and inform you by post of the specific date on which your compulsory insurance ends.

Requirements

• In principle, you are subject to compulsory social insurance for artists or are entitled to a subsidy.
• You have given up your self-employed artistic or journalistic activity:
  • given up,
  • interrupted or
  • restricted it to a scope that is no longer gainful

or

• you employ more than one person in connection with your artistic or journalistic activity. Trainees and marginally employed persons are excluded.
  

Which documents are required?

• completed online notification or completed PDF form
• Which other documents you need to submit depends on the nature of your request. Please note the relevant information in the online notification or PDF form.
  

What are the fees?

There are no costs.

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

Notify us immediately if you give up your self-employed artistic or journalistic activity or employ more than one person on a dependent basis.

Processing duration

Processing time: 3 - 6 Weeks
Die Bearbeitungsdauer ist abhängig vom Arbeitsaufkommen.

Legal basis

• § Section 1 of the Artists' Social Insurance Act (KSVG)
• § Section 3 of the Artists' Social Insurance Act (KSVG)
• § Section 8 (2) of the Artists' Social Insurance Act (KSVG)
• § Section 7 of the Fourth Book of the German Social Code (SGB IV)
• § Section 8 of the Fourth Book of the German Social Code (SGB IV)
• § Section 1 (3) and Section 3 of the Vocational Training Act (BBiG)

Appeal

• Appeal

Detailed information on how to lodge an objection can be found in the notice from the Künstlersozialkasse.

What else should I know?

There are no indications or special features.

Weiterführende Informationen

• Information for self-employed artists and publicists on the website of the Artists' Social Insurance Fund: "Artists' Social Insurance - Social Security for Artists and Publicists"
• Information for self-employed artists and publicists on the website of the Künstlersozialkasse: "Information for self-employed artists and publicists - the most important facts about artists' social insurance in brief"
• Forms for change notifications to the Artists' Social Security Fund

Author

Forwarding service: Deep link to the original portal

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.

• Termination of compulsory insurance with the Artists' Social Security Fund Examination
  

  Remark: Display of performance in the source portal