Some people need help.
For example

• old people
• people with disabilities
• sick people

These people can receive certain types of help.
For example, there are

• Help for the elderly
• help for the blind
• Household help

Do you need help?
Because you can no longer manage everything on your own?
Then you can get advice from the social welfare office.

You have no income and no assets?
Then you may be able to get help.
You must live in Germany for this.

Assistance in other life situations (benefits under Chapter 9 of the Twelfth Book of the Social Code - SGB XII) is available to people seeking help in situations such as illness, disability or stressful life situations that they cannot cope with on their own. This assistance can also be provided to people who are still able to support themselves but are dependent on assistance from public funds due to a special need situation. The decisive factor is whether they can reasonably be expected to raise the funds from their income and assets.

Assistance in other life situations includes

• assistance to continue the household (§ 70 SGB XII):
  To persons with their own household or living with other household members, if neither they themselves nor the other household members can run the household and it is necessary to continue the household. As a rule, the benefits should only be provided on a temporary basis, unless this means that placement in an inpatient facility can be avoided or postponed. They include the personal care of household members and other activities necessary for the continuation of the household and can also be provided by assuming the reasonable costs of temporary alternative accommodation for household members if this accommodation is necessary in special cases in addition to or instead of the continuation of the household
• assistance for the elderly (§ 71 SGB XII):
  to prevent, overcome or alleviate difficulties caused by old age and to enable older people to participate in social life (e.g. by obtaining housing suitable for the elderly, advice and support in the use of age-appropriate services or admission to an institution, advice and support in the run-up to and surrounding care, in particular in all matters relating to the range of housing options for those in need of support, care or nursing as well as services that provide care or nursing, advice and support in all matters relating to the use of age-appropriate services).
• assistance for the blind (Section 72 SGB XII):
  for blind people to compensate for additional expenses due to blindness, insofar as they do not receive similar benefits under other legislation (e.g. state allowance for the blind) or (in the case of proven need) as a supplement to the state allowance for the blind.
  Among other things, special regulations apply with regard to the offsetting of home care services in care grades 2 to 5 against the benefits of the assistance for the blind.
• assistance in other life situations (Section 73 SGB XII):
  by granting cash benefits as an allowance or as a loan if the use of public funds is justified.
• funeral costs (§ 74 SGB XII):
  by assuming the necessary costs for a funeral, insofar as they cannot be borne by the persons obliged to pay for the funeral (e.g. heirs).