The main tasks of the Social Services Department of the City of Salzgitter can be found in a wide variety of areas and forms. In the following you will find keywords under which you can obtain information and perhaps find help.

• Advice in social emergencies
• Employment promotion
• Advice for foreigners, asylum seekers, repatriates
• Basic security
• Heimaufsicht
• Help for the disabled, people in need of care and the sick: home care
• care, assistance with disabilities (integration assistance), assistance with illness
• sickness, help for the blind, help 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