The main tasks of the specialist service:
- Advice in social emergencies
- Employment promotion
- Counseling for foreigners, asylum seekers, repatriates
- Basic security
- Heimaufsicht
- Assistance for the disabled, people in need of care and the sick: home care, assistance with disabilities (integration assistance), assistance with illness, assistance for the blind, assistance with care, war victims' welfare and other compensation benefits, short-term care, day care / night care, full inpatient care
- Pension matters (insurance office)
- Services for senior citizens
- Debt counseling
- Social assistance: assistance with living expenses, assistance in special circumstances
- Maintenance support
- Housing benefit
- Subsidies for welfare organizations