Assistance for rent debts and similar emergencies

Services

• Advice for those seeking help with rent debts and comparable emergencies (e.g. energy debts)
• Mediation of contact between the landlord or utility company and the citizen
• Contact mediation to third parties (e.g. other authorities, debt counseling)
• Pointing out priority benefits
• Identification of self-help options (priority before receiving social benefits)

on application and if certain conditions are met:

• Assumption of rent arrears
• Assumption of comparable emergencies (e.g. energy debts)

Eligible persons

Anyone who finds themselves in a current emergency situation and

cannot eliminate it by their own efforts and means and is actually resident in Gera.

has their actual residence in Gera.