If you are experiencing 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 pursued first.  If you meet the following requirements, assistance to overcome special social difficulties may be granted under certain circumstances:

• Special living circumstances:
  • no housing or inadequate housing
  • an unstable financial foundation
  • Living conditions marked by violence
  • Discharge from a secure facility
  • comparable adverse circumstances
• Social difficulties :
  • Maintaining or securing housing
  • Finding a job
  • Retaining a job
  • Family or other social relationships
  • Criminal Offenses

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 a job
• Assistance with school - or vocational training
• Cash - and in-kind benefits are available, e.g., health insurance premiums, clothing allowances, or pocket money in the event of inpatient placement

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., is homeless, has committed a crime, has no family, or lacks a secure livelihood) and cannot overcome these circumstances on their own is entitled to this assistance. These particular 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 family members,
• Assistance in finding housing,
• Measures to help them find employment, and
• Support for 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.

• To receive counseling on assistance for overcoming specific social difficulties, you must submit a corresponding contact request.
• During the consultation, specific support options can be discussed.
• Any potential prior benefits can also be discussed here.
• Possible forms of assistance include among other things : health-related assistance, care assistance, or assistance in other life situations
• Whether the requirements for assistance to overcome specific social difficulties are met can be discussed during the consultation.

Please note the following:
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.

Generally, no documents are required
. In some cases, the Social Services Office may request the necessary documents.

Cost type: Free of charge

Forms available: No
Written form required: No
Informal application possible: Yes
In-person appearance required: No