Some people need help.
For example:

• older adults
• people with disabilities
• sick people

These people can receive certain types of assistance.
For example, there is:

• Senior assistance
• Assistance for the blind
• Household assistance

Do you need help?
Because you can’t manage everything on your own anymore?
Then you can get advice from the Social Services Office.

Do you have no income and no assets?
Then you may be able to receive assistance.
To qualify, you must live in Germany.

Assistance in other life situations (benefits under Chapter 9 of Book 12 of the Social Code—SGB XII) is available to those seeking help in situations such as illness, disability, or stressful life circumstances that cannot be managed alone. This assistance is also available to individuals who are still able to support themselves but, due to a specific need, are dependent on public funds. The decisive factor in such cases is whether they can reasonably be expected to cover their expenses from their income and assets.

Assistance available in other life situations includes:

• Assistance for maintaining a household (Section 70 of SGB XII):
  for individuals with their own household or living with other household members, if neither they nor the other household members are able to manage the household and the continuation of the household is necessary. As a rule, these benefits are provided only on a temporary basis, unless doing so prevents or delays placement in an inpatient facility. They include personal care for household members as well as other activities necessary for the continuation of the household and may also be provided by covering the reasonable costs of temporary alternative housing for household members if, in special cases, such housing is necessary in addition to or instead of continuing the household
• Elderly Care (Section 71 of Book XII of the Social Code):
  to prevent, overcome, or alleviate difficulties arising from old age and to enable older adults to participate in social life (e.g., by securing housing suitable for older adults, providing counseling and support in accessing age-appropriate services or admission to a facility, counseling and support in the context of long-term care, particularly regarding all matters related to housing options for those in need of assistance, supervision, or care, as well as services that provide supervision or care; and counseling and support in all matters related to accessing age-appropriate services).
• Assistance for the Blind (Section 72 of SGB XII):
  for blind people to compensate for additional expenses resulting from blindness, provided they do not receive similar benefits under other legal provisions (e.g., state blindness allowance) or (in cases of proven need) as a supplement to the state blindness allowance.
  Special rules apply, among other things, regarding the offsetting of home care services in care levels 2 through 5 against benefits under the Assistance for the Blind.
• Assistance in Other Life Situations (Section 73 of SGB XII):
  through the provision of cash benefits as a grant or as a loan, if the use of public funds is justified.
• Funeral expenses (Section 74 of Book XII of the Social Code):
  by covering the necessary costs of a funeral, to the extent that they cannot be borne by the persons obligated to pay for the funeral (e.g., heirs).