Social benefits

• Subsistence benefit - Financial aid for a person or a family to ensure essential resources needed for everyday life (food, clothes, housing costs etc).
• Income-based allowances - Aid for compensating the cost of medication, assistance aids or other tools necessary for life. 

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Counselling

Advisory and practical help to achieve better economic viability, answers to work-related and legal questions and psychological support for coping with difficulties in life.

• Debt counselling - Counselling on how to manage and pay off your current debt and avoid new debt. 
• Budget counselling - Advising a person and their family on how to manage their money better and avoid debt.
• Legal counselling - Free legal aid for low-income Tallinn residents.
• Crisis support counselling - Psychological crisis aid, crisis hotline
• Employment law counselling - Answers to questions about job contracts, vacation, salary as well as collective employment relationships, help with writing up documents. 

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Housing

Social housing is for people and families that are unable to ensure their own housing and need help with everyday life (social services and benefits).

• Social housing - Housing for people or families who are not able to ensure their own housing and need help coping with everyday life (social services and benefits).
• Support for returning to an independent life - Assisting a person or family and advising them on how to maintain or improve their ability to live independently. Includes housing.
• Shelters - Accommodation for a person who does not have a place of residence, ensuring a temporary place to stay or sleep.

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Other social aid

• A day centre for homeless people - A place where a homeless person can spend time during the day and receive support services. 
• Soup kitchen - A warm meal once a day 
• Saunas - Shower facilities for people who do not have them at their place of residence, sauna service for a fee
• Food aid - Food aid for low-income people and families