About us

Helping people help themselves

Citizen´s income (Bürgergeld) is a state-funded social benefit that secures the basic financial needs and consequently the sustenance of people without adequate funds.

We provide help in the form of:

• advice and service to help people find a job or apprenticeship, and to
• make sure people have the means to live.

Hand in hand

We also help interested employers find staff through our joint employer service. We offer industry-specific advice and financial aid options.

From Bergedorf to Altona, Rahlstedt to Süderelbe

As the biggest job centre in Germany, Jobcenter team.arbeit.hamburg can be found at various locations throughout the entire Hamburg area. Go to Our locations to view our individual Jobcenter team.arbeit.hamburg offices and their opening hours.

Under one roof

Together with our partners, we offer our customers advice geared towards certain target groups and topics.

Jobcenter team.arbeit.hamburg, the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the Hamburg Employment Agency have teamed up to form the Hamburg Youth Employment Agency (YEA) with the aim of helping young people enter the professional world. Questions from young people up to the age of 25 related to education, work and studying – along with everything these topics entail – are answered at the agency’s seven locations. The YEA also provides assistance and guidance for personal and family issues that prevent certain young people from entering the professional world.

At the Hamburg Welcome Center (HWC), the Social Security Office, the Office for Internal Affairs and Sport, the Hamburg Employment Agency and Jobcenter t.a.h work together under one roof covering various legal aspects to help immigrants integrate into the skilled labour market and advise employers in need of skilled labour.

The House for Health and Work (HHW) is a model initiative launched as part of the federal programme rehapro, funded by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. Nine partners in total collaborate at the HHW under the helm of Jobcenter team.arbeit.hamburg: ARINET, the Hamburg Employment Agency, Berufliche Trainingszentrum Hamburg GmbH, Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, Deutsche Rentenversicherung Nord, hamburger arbeit, the Social Security Office and the University of Lübeck. The HHW uses its pooled expertise to support and advise people affected by health issues, particularly mental illness, on how to return to work or solve issued faced at the workplace.

Services on equal terms

We place value on informing and advising people with a community-based, competent approach. You can find extensive information on the topic of citizen´s income (Bürgergeld) on our website. Feel free to give us a call if your require more information or want to submit an application for the basic security benefit. Our contact partners at your local office would be happy to advise you.

‘I work on behalf of Hamburg citizens’

Jobcenter team.arbeit.hamburg employees work to help people in social hardship every day. Learn more about us and the work we do: Check out reports from employees on the wide range of tasks they do on a daily basis. Employer and former clients also provide feedback.

This video was published in September 2018.