For 

• children, adolescents, and young adults who are placed outside the family as part of child and youth welfare services, 

as well as for

• mothers or fathers who are the sole caregivers for a child under the age of six 

are entitled to medical assistance. Medical assistance – comparable to the benefits provided by statutory health insurance – applies if no other health insurance coverage exists or if it does not fully cover the necessary needs. This means that if these children, adolescents, or young adults become ill, the responsible youth welfare office will ensure that the costs are covered

Children, adolescents, and young adults who

• live in a foster family
• live in a residential child and youth welfare facility ("children's home")
• are in intensive individual social-educational care
• live in a foster family or in a residential child and youth welfare facility as a mentally disabled child or adolescent
• have been taken into care (even temporarily) by the youth welfare office
• are accommodated in a socio-educational residential facility while participating in school or vocational training measures or during vocational integration

Mothers or fathers who

• are solely responsible for a child under the age of six and live with the child in a shared living arrangement for mothers/fathers/children, and

Children who

• live together with their mother or father in shared accommodation for mothers/fathers and their children