R0810: Pensioners' Health Insurance (KVdR) Notification

What is R0810 — Meldung zur KVdR?

Under § 201(1) SGB V, anyone applying for a German statutory pension also hands in a notification to the pensioners' health insurance (Krankenversicherung der Rentner, KVdR): form R0810. The health insurance fund uses it to decide whether you become a compulsory member as a pensioner, which also covers long-term care insurance. The notes say you file it even if you clearly won't qualify, for example after many years of private insurance.

The seven pages ask about you, your current work and insurance, other pensions and pension payments such as a company pension, your health insurance since 1996 and your children — each child can count three years towards the qualifying period — and, for a survivor's pension, the person who died. The last page is for the office that takes your application.

FileIt asks the questions in English with the German wording, follows the form's jumps, prints the insurance periods and dates in the official PDF and saves it in your vault. You sign it by hand and hand it in with your pension application.

Who fills it: Everyone applying for a German statutory pension, including each orphan separately
Given to: With the pension application to the Rentenversicherung, which passes it to the health fund
When: At the same time as the pension application
Signatures: You or your authorised representative sign by hand
Edition: R0810-00, Version 40018
Not needed when: The office takes the KVdR notification electronically with your application

Who needs to fill out R0810 — Meldung zur KVdR?

People applying for an old-age, disability or survivor's pension from the Deutsche Rentenversicherung.
Widows and widowers, who also give details of the deceased.
Orphans applying for an orphan's pension, each on their own form.
Applicants who are privately insured — the notes say they file it too.

When to use R0810 — Meldung zur KVdR

Together with your pension application, unless the office records the notification electronically.
When applying for a survivor's pension after the death of a spouse, partner or parent.
When the Rentenversicherung asks you for it.

What you need before you start

Your pension insurance number and, if you are in a statutory fund, your health insurance number from your health card.
Details of any other pension: German, foreign or from the farmers' scheme.
Details of company pensions, civil-service pensions or other pension payments, with the paying office.
A gap-free history of your health insurance since 1 January 1996, with each fund's name and address.
The date you first started work, also abroad.
Your children's names, dates of birth and relationship to you.
For a survivor's pension: the deceased's details, insurance number and insurance history.

What’s on R0810 — Meldung zur KVdR

The 2024 edition has 12 pages. FileIt asks for it in 7 parts, and it is signed by Pension applicant (rentenantragsteller/-in):

1 · About you (Angaben zur Person des Rentenantragstellers)Pension applicant (rentenantragsteller/-in)
2 · Your insurance situation (Allgemeine Angaben)Pension applicant (rentenantragsteller/-in)
3 · Orphan's pension only (Angaben bei Antrag auf Waisenrente)Pension applicant (rentenantragsteller/-in)
4 · Your earlier health insurance (Prüfung der Vorversicherungszeit)Pension applicant (rentenantragsteller/-in)
5 · The insured person who died (verstorbener Versicherter)Pension applicant (rentenantragsteller/-in)
6 · Subsidy for voluntary or private health insurance (Zuschuss)Pension applicant (rentenantragsteller/-in)
7 · Declaration and signature (Erklärung)Pension applicant (rentenantragsteller/-in)

How to fill out R0810 — Meldung zur KVdR, step by step

1 1 Angaben zur Person

Your names, date of birth, nationality, marital status and marriage date, insurance numbers and address.

2 2.1 to 2.5

Whether you are employed, self-employed, exempt from health insurance (as a civil servant, for example), released from compulsory insurance, or family-insured.

3 2.6 to 2.9

Other pensions — German, foreign or farmers' — and pension payments (Versorgungsbezüge) such as a company pension, also from abroad. These count for contributions.

4 3 Waisenrente

Only for an orphan's pension: were you privately insured just before applying? If not, give the date of death and the deceased's insurance number and go to the signature.

5 4.1 and 4.2

If you are already insured in the KVdR, give that fund and stop there. Otherwise give the date you first started work.

6 4.3 Bisherige Krankenversicherung

Each period since 1996 with the fund or insurer and the type: member, family insurance, private or none. FileIt prints each period as from – to. More than four periods go on R0811.

7 4.4 to 4.6

Your children and their relationship to you, whether you are a recognised late repatriate (Spätaussiedler) and when you moved here, and any work as a self-employed artist or publicist.

8 5 Verstorbener Versicherter

For widow's, widower's and orphan's pensions: the deceased's details, pension, KVdR membership, first job, insurance history and children.

9 6 and 7

Whether you apply for the subsidy to voluntary or private insurance (form R0820), whether R0811 is enclosed, then place, date and signature.

Common mistakes to avoid

Leaving gaps in the insurance history since 1996.
Forgetting foreign pensions or pension payments from abroad, which are also subject to contributions.
Leaving out children — they can shorten the qualifying period.
Filling part 4 after an orphan answered no at 3.1.
Filling part 8, which belongs to the office that takes the application.
Not ticking R0811 when you add more periods or children on it.

After you fill it out

Print the form and sign it by hand.

Hand it in with your pension application, with R0811 if you used it. FileIt doesn't submit anything.

Keep the copy in your FileIt vault. The health fund decides on your membership and may ask for proof of insurance periods.

Fill out R0810 — Meldung zur KVdR online with FileIt

Pick the person. Choose someone from People and FileIt fills in their name, date of birth, address and other details it already knows.
Answer plain-language questions. One part of the form at a time, with the official help text beside each question — 137 fields in all. Your answers save as you go.
Check the live preview. Watch your answers land on the real Deutsche Rentenversicherung form, and let FileIt do any worksheet arithmetic.
Generate the official PDF. FileIt prints your answers into the agency’s own PDF and files it in that person’s folder in your vault. Sign it, or send it for e-signature.

FileIt fills the form — it never files or submits anything for you. Deliver the finished form to whoever asked for it, the way the form’s instructions say.

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R0810 — Meldung zur KVdR: frequently asked questions

What is the KVdR?

The Krankenversicherung der Rentner, the statutory health insurance for pensioners. It applies when you have been in the statutory scheme for at least 9/10 of the second half of your working life, among other conditions the health fund checks.

Do I need R0810 if I'm privately insured?

Yes. The notes say the notification is also filed when you clearly don't meet the conditions, because only the fund decides.

Why does the form ask about my children?

Each own, adopted, step- or foster child can count as three years towards the qualifying period, so the fund needs them.

What is R0811?

The supplementary sheet for more insurance periods or more children than the form has room for.

Who fills in the last page?

The office that takes your pension application, for example the Versicherungsamt or an insurance adviser. It confirms the application and your children's civil-status details.

Does FileIt send the form?

No. FileIt fills the official PDF and keeps a copy; you sign it and hand it in with your pension application.

Official sources

Blank form (PDF), published by Deutsche Rentenversicherung: https://www.deutsche-rentenversicherung.de/SharedDocs/Formulare/DE/_pdf/R0810.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
Official instructions and guidance: https://www.deutsche-rentenversicherung.de/merkblatt-R0815
Edition shown on this page: R0810-00, Version 40018 (PDF of 24.01.2024) (checked 2026-10-19).

FileIt is not affiliated with or endorsed by Deutsche Rentenversicherung or any government. This page explains the form in general terms and is not legal, tax or immigration advice. Always read the official instructions, and check that you are using the edition the recipient accepts. Page last reviewed 2026-10-19.