The objectives of social assistance Social work is a state of social policy aimed at enabling individuals and families to overcome difficult situations in life that they are not able to overcome, using its own resources, opportunities, and privileges. The aim is to meet essential social needs of individuals and families and enable them living in conditions worthy of man. Social assistance should wherever possible to achieve a level playing field, self-empowerment of people to life and families, and their integration into the environment. Social assistance under the terms of the Act shall be given to individuals and families, in particular because of: poverty, homelessness, the need to protect motherhood, unemployment, disability, long-term illness, helplessness in the care - education and conduct of the household, especially in incomplete families or large, alcoholism or drug abuse, difficulties in adapting to life after leaving the penal establishment, natural or ecological disaster. The right to cash benefits from social assistance granted to people who have no jobs or a specified amount of income per person in the family.