Counselling centres for municipal services according to § 16a SGB II Hamburg

Municipal integration services according to § 16a SGB II have the aim of contributing to the realisation of holistic and comprehensive care and support for integration into work. The consultations are intended to help address and reduce financial, personal or health problems. This prepares a placement in the labour market or participation in a further vocational integration measure. The offers of § 16a SGB II also include the care of minors or disabled children or the home care of relatives and addiction counselling. The free and voluntary life situation counselling helps unemployment benefit II recipients to cope with and reduce personal problems. As part of a professional individual consultation, advice seekers are assisted in dealing with problems, with the aim of stabilising their life situation. In many cases, re-entry is difficult with health restrictions. Against this background, hamburger work offers a wide range of services for unemployed people or people in difficult social circumstances around the issues of health orientation, prevention and health promotion. In individual consultations, the advice seekers are supported and personal solutions are developed. In addition, various courses can be offered. These services are free of charge for those seeking advice. The recognised debtor and insolvency advisory services assist in the conduct of consumer insolvency proceedings pursuant to § 305 of the Insolvency Code (InsO). In addition, the publicly funded debt counselling services offer comprehensive advice to people who receive social benefits or low incomes on all issues of indebtedness, such as pay or account attachment. It is possible to cover the consulting costs by the city here.