Hilfe im Haushalt beantragen

If you are temporarily unable to continue running your household due to illness or other circumstances and no other person in the household can take over, you can apply for help to continue running the household.

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.

• Neither you as the head of the household nor another person in the household can continue to run the household due to a temporary emergency.
• It is necessary and sensible to continue running the household, for example because you are looking after underage, school-age children.
• You are dependent on the support because you cannot finance the help in the household yourself.
• The help is only necessary on a temporary basis. This restriction does not apply if the assistance enables you to avoid or postpone placement in an inpatient facility.

• Appeal
  You can lodge an appeal against the decision within one month of its notification.
• Legal action
  You can lodge an appeal against the objection decision with the competent social court within one month of notification.

• Assistance for the continuation of the household Authorization.
• People can apply for help with the continuation of the household if
  • they have their own household,
  • the person running the household is unable to continue the household themselves due to a temporary emergency,
  • no other members of the household can continue to run the household,
  • the continuation of the household is necessary,
  • no one else, for example no provider of other social benefits, will take over the assistance, for example through entitlement to care assistance, educational assistance or health insurance benefits
• Benefits depend on the income and assets of the person running the household
• Assistance usually includes
  • Care of household members, for example children,
  • activities necessary for the continuation of the household
• Assistance is provided on a temporary basis (restriction does not apply if the assistance can avoid or postpone placement in an inpatient facility)
• Responsible: Social assistance provider

Social welfare authorities of the districts and independent cities