If you are facing particular social difficulties, you can receive counseling on the assistance available to help you overcome these difficulties.
During this counseling session, the necessary eligibility requirements for receiving assistance can also be clarified.  Assistance for overcoming specific social difficulties is considered a secondary benefit. Therefore, during the consultation, you will also be informed about other, primary benefits that must be exhausted first. If you meet the following requirements, assistance for overcoming specific social difficulties may be granted under certain circumstances:

• Special living circumstances:
  • No housing or insufficient housing
  • Unstable financial situation
  • Living conditions marked by violence
  • Discharge from a secure facility
  • comparable adverse circumstances
• Social difficulties :
  • Obtaining or securing housing
  • Finding a job
  • Retaining a job
  • Family or other social relationships
  • Criminality

If you meet these requirements and no other benefits are available, you may, for example, receive the following benefits :

• Counseling and personal support, including for family members
• Measures to help you find and keep housing
• Assistance in finding and securing employment
• Assistance with school - or vocational training
• Cash and in-kind benefits are available, e.g., health insurance premiums, clothing allowance, or pocket money for inpatient care

This assistance is intended to enable individuals whose particular living circumstances lead to social difficulties—and whose participation in community life is thereby impossible or significantly impaired—to integrate into society.

Anyone who has fallen into particularly difficult living circumstances (e.g., has become homeless or committed a crime, is without family, or lacks a secure livelihood) and cannot overcome these circumstances on their own is entitled to this assistance. The specific social difficulties may stem from the individual seeking assistance, their current living circumstances, or their social environment.

The assistance includes all necessary measures to eliminate the specific difficulties that stand in the way of integration into society. These include, above all:

• counseling and personal support for those seeking help and their relatives,
• Assistance in finding housing,
• Measures to help secure employment, and
• Assistance with coping with daily life.

You do not have to meet any requirements to receive the initial consultation. In order to receive assistance, decisions on individual cases are necessary.

• In order to receive advice on assistance for overcoming particular social difficulties, a corresponding contact request must be submitted. During the consultation, the specific support
• During the consultation, the specific support options can be discussed. Possible advance benefits can also be discussed here.
• Possible advance benefits can also be discussed here .
• Possible assistance includes , among other things : assistance with health, care, or other life situations
• Whether the requirements for assistance in overcoming specific social difficulties are met can be discussed during the consultation.

The following
information is available: Counseling to help overcome specific social difficulties can also be provided anonymously.

You can find out about your options for appeal by contacting the appropriate authority.

As a rule, no documents are required.
In individual cases, the social welfare office may request the necessary documents.

Cost type: Free of charge

Forms available: No
Written form required: No
Informal application possible: Yes
Personal appearance required: No