Apply for household help

If you are temporarily unable to continue running your household due to an emergency situation - whether due to illness, imprisonment, recuperation measures or even after a death - and no other person in the household can take over, you can apply for help to continue running the household from the social assistance provider responsible for you. You can receive this assistance if it is necessary and sensible to continue running the household, for example because you have children to look after.

You can receive assistance with all activities that you are no longer able to manage, at least in part, as part of the help to continue running the household. This includes housework as well as personal care for children and other family members living in the household.

Help with running the household is a social benefit based on your income and assets. It is only provided if you do not receive the required benefit from others or from providers of other social benefits, such as benefits from the statutory health insurance fund, assistance with care or education.

As a rule, assistance with the continuation of the household is only intended to provide you with temporary support. You can therefore only apply for it for a transitional period. This restriction does not apply if the assistance can avoid or postpone placement in an inpatient facility.