Solidarity Aid Association.

Social and unemployment counselling

Solidarische Hilfe eV operates as a recognized body in Bremen according to § 305 para. 1 no. 1 of the Insolvency Code, providing comprehensive, open, independent unemployment and social welfare advice as well as debt and insolvency advice at four locations (see overview of the advice centers).

We offer:

• Comprehensive information and advice on questions about social benefits, in particular on unemployment benefit I and II, social assistance or basic income support for the elderly and those unable to work, child benefit, child supplement, maintenance advance, etc.
• Information about rights, obligations and entitlements
• Assistance with enforcing benefit claims
• Information about support services outside of Solidarisches Hilfe eV.
• Information on debtor protection measures
• Developing a debt overview
• Household and budget advice
• Advice on dealing with creditors, employers, landlords and authorities in connection with debt
• Developing debt settlement plans
• Consumer insolvency advice
• Promotion of financial literacy/debt prevention: Offers for schools and further education providers

What we do

Those who come to us are taken seriously in their desire to know and enforce their legal rights. Our advice and assistance are always intended to empower you to help yourself and aim to strengthen your own potential. We are focused on your interests, listen carefully, and explain the facts to you.

Knowing your legal rights and helping you enforce them is one aspect of our work. But that alone isn't enough. Our work takes your entire life situation into account. Therefore, we can also be a point of contact if you have more than one problem to solve

We stabilize, motivate, and support you in your efforts to find employment, as well as in asserting your interests and rights as a job seeker and/or recipient of social benefits at the subsistence level. We also provide information on other support and counselling services.

In debt and insolvency counseling, we operate as one of approximately 11 providers under a service agreement with the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, funded on a fee-for-service basis according to individual case billing and exclusively by appointment. Unemployment and social welfare law counseling is primarily offered as walk-in consultations, without appointments, during the stated opening hours.

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Advice hotline

For Bremen: 0421 696758730
For Bremen-North: 0421 6586966

We can be reached at the following times: -both hotlines are staffed in the morning, in the afternoon as indicated-

Mondays: 9:00-12:30 and (2:00-5:30 pm/Bremen only)
Tuesdays: 9:00-12:30 and 2:00-5:30 pm
Wednesdays: 9:00-12:30 and (2:00-4:30 pm/Bremen only)
Thursdays: 9:00-12:30 and (2:00-5:30 pm/Bremen-North only)
Fridays: afternoons from (2:00-5:30 pm/Bremen only)

If you cannot reach someone immediately, please try again later. Please also refer to our information sheet on data protection for clients.

Debt and insolvency counselling

Please schedule personal appointments!

Bremen North: 0421 65 86 966
Bremen South: 0421 50 40 36
Bremen East: 0421 69 67 58 715
Bremen Central: 0421 38 04 559

Overview of advice centers:

Bremen East (Hastedt):
Stresemannstr. 54
28207 Bremen
Tel.: 0421 – 69 67 587 15
Fax: 0421 – 69 67 587 99
Mail:

Bremen-Mitte (Doventor):

Our central advice center has been closed for organizational reasons.
Please contact the southern advice center with your request, telephone 0421 504036.

Bremen-South (Neustadt):
Kornstr. 13
28201 Bremen
Tel.: 0421 – 50 40 36
Fax: 0421 – 50 40 37
Mail:

Bremen-North (Vegesack):
Gerhard-Rohlfs-Str. 16 (Passage)
28757 Bremen
Tel.: 0421 – 65 86 966
Fax: 0421 – 65 307 35
Mail:

Opening hours for social and unemployment advice

Bremen East (Hastedt):
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Wednesday 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
(afternoons primarily for employed persons and participants in training programs)

Bremen-Mitte (Doventor):
Doventorsteinweg 45 in 28195 Bremen,
Monday and Friday 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Bremen-South (Neustadt):
Monday to Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Wednesday 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
(afternoons primarily for employed persons and participants in training programs)

Bremen-North (Vegesack):
Monday to Thursday 9:00 - 12:30
, Tuesday and Thursday 14:00 - 17:30
(afternoons primarily for employed persons and participants in training programs)

Opening hours of the debt counselling service

Bremen East (Hastedt):
Office hours Mon. and Thurs. 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.,
Tue. 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Appointments by telephone arrangement

Bremen-Mitte (Doventor):
Office hours Mon. + Wed. 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Appointments by telephone arrangement

Bremen-South (Neustadt):
Office hours Mon. – Thurs. 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Appointments by telephone arrangement

Bremen-North (Vegesack):
Office hours Mon. – Thurs. 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Appointments by telephone arrangement