Advice and help

Social assistance includes benefits for people who are not able to work and are unable to support themselves. In addition to financial benefits, social assistance also includes support measures such as family counseling or debtor and consumer insolvency counseling. We are happy to work with you to check your entitlement to financial benefits and provide you with individual advice and support services.

You can find all the help and advice services offered by the city at . You can enter a specific keyword on the page, such as "Jenabonus" or " Schwerbehindertenausweis". Or you can select the category "Youth & Social Affairs" and click through alphabetically from A for adoption agency to W for housing/homeless assistance and prevention. You can also directly select an overarching area such as social welfare. You will find specific social counseling services if you combine the keyword "Counseling" with the category "Youth & Social Affairs".

Many social services are also listed in the Family Compass Thuringia under "Jena".