welfare office
The tightly woven social security network offers people in need social assistance and financial support.
According to the Twelfth Book of the Social Code (SGB XII) and the Ninth Book of the Social Code (SGB IX), the local provider of social assistance or integration assistance - these are the rural districts and urban districts - performs the following tasks within the framework of social assistance:
1. Subsistence allowance,
2. Basic security in old age and in the case of reduced earning capacity,
3. help to health,
4. integration assistance for disabled people,
5. assistance to care,
6. Help to overcome special social difficulties,
7. Help in other life situations,
as well as the advice and support required in each case.