Anyone who is alive and has been approved for a Hardship Fund Payment OR received a one-time payment from the BEG and does not receive a pension as compensation for persecution during the Holocaust.
You are not eligible for the Hardship Fund Supplemental Payment if you receive a pension as compensation for Nazi persecution. You are eligible if you received a one-time payment from the BEG, even if this payment was over 5,000 DM.
Yes, you must submit an application form to be eligible for this payment. The Claims Conference mailed personalized pre-populated application forms to potentially eligible survivors. If you think you are eligible and did NOT receive an application form in the mail by January 31, 2021, please contact us at the Claims Conference office nearest you. https://www.claimscon.org/about/contact-us/
Applications can be sent by mail, fax, and email.
Please send your applications to one of the following fax numbers and emails:
Via Fax:
Via Email:
The fund will pay eligible claimants two supplemental payments, each in the amount of €1,200 for a total of €2,400. There will be two installments, the first at the end of 2020 or in early 2021 and the second will be paid in 2022.
We are accepting address changes via mail, and will begin accepting address changes over the phone starting January 3, 2021. Please call the Claims Conference nearest you for assistance. https://www.claimscon.org/about/contact-us/
Yes, you need to mail us a copy of the following:
Your application will explicitly state if it needs to be certified, or if we require various additional documents (such as a photocopy of your government ID and birth certificate). If you have any questions about your specific application after receiving it please contact us at:
Via Phone:
Via Email:
No, the Supplemental Payment can only be paid to eligible survivors.
Yes, if the survivor applied and is found eligible but passes away before the payment could be made, the surviving spouse may be entitled. If there is no surviving spouse, children may be eligible. No other heirs are eligible. Surviving spouses and children should contact the Claims Conference.
The deadline to apply is December 31, 2022.
No, we are not able to send checks, you must have a bank account opened in your name.
Yes, payment will be wired to your bank account. Please fill out the bank details in the personalized application. Please note that if you are a resident of Russia, Ukraine, or Belarus, no banking information is needed, as payment will be issued through Alfa Bank, Privat Bank, and the Belarus Foundation.
There is no need to complete a Life Certificate, but you must be alive as of December 1, 2020 or at the time that you submit your Hardship Fund Supplemental Payment application (the later of the two) to receive the payment.
You do not need a lawyer to apply for the Hardship Fund Supplemental Payment.
There is no fee to apply for the Hardship Fund Supplemental Payment.
Please fill out the Universal Application Form found on our website, https://www.claimscon.org/what-we-do/compensation/apply-for-compensation/, and we will notify you if you are eligible for the Hardship Fund and the Hardship Fund Supplemental Payment.
Anyone who received the first installment of the Hardship Fund Supplemental payment prior to December 10, 2021 and (i) has not passed away and (b) has not received a pension such as Article 2 or CEEF since the previous Hardship Fund Supplemental Payment.
No, if you received the first payment, the second installment will be wired to your account.
The second and final installment of the Hardship Fund Supplemental Payment will be €1,200, which combined with the previous payment of €1,200, totals €2,400.
As long as you did not change your bank details, you will receive the second payment. That said, we would appreciate it if you can notify us of your new address, in case we have news to share with you in the future. Please call us at:
Or email us at:
We will attempt to wire the funds to the bank account that we have on file. If you did not inform us of the change in your bank details in advance, please let us know. We will ask you to fill out a new bank details form and send it back to us.
Yes, a child or spouse might be eligible for the second installment if the survivor received the first Hardship Fund Supplemental Payment and passed away before receiving the second installment. No other heirs are eligible. If we know that the survivor who received the first payment passed away, we will not send the second payment, instead we will try to contact the surviving spouse and/or children. If you did not hear from us, you should contact the Claims Conference at:
Or email us at:
The second Hardship Fund Supplemental Payment will be made to you and IF you are approved for the RSP payments, the second Hardship Fund Supplemental Payment of €1,200 will be deducted from the future payments.
Due to COVID 19 we have encountered unexpected delays in the processing of some cases. As of mid-December, the Claims Conference has fully processed 88% of all applications which we have received. We continue to process the remaining 12% of cases which we have received and new incoming applications. Please be assured that we are working diligently towards fully processing all pending cases. Once approved, you will receive the entire payment €2,400 in one installment.
You can check if your application is being processed at https://applicationtracker.claimscon.org
o Yes, you will need to submit an application form by December 31, 2022, to be eligible for this payment. If you think that you are eligible, please contact us at the Claims Conference office nearest via phone at:
Or by email at:
Applications have to postdated December 31, 2022 to be processed.
Unfortunately, the Claims Conference is not able to send checks. We will wire transfer the funds to the same bank account we used for the first installment of the Hardship Fund Supplemental Payment.
The second installment of the Hardship Fund supplemental payment will be wired on December 24, 2021 and should appear in your bank account shortly thereafter.