Income support in Switzerland
16 income support programmes we could source and date. Sorted so the ones with a published amount come first.
Check which of these you qualify for
14 more income support programmes are on the paid plan, with the amount, the rules, the documents and the steps for each.
- Survivors' pensions (widow's/widower's pension AHV)
- AHV helplessness allowance
- Supplementary benefits to AHV/IV (EL/PC)
- IV helplessness allowance
- IV personal assistance contribution
- Bridging benefits for older unemployed (ÜL)
- Social assistance (cantonal/municipal)
- Asylum-seeker and refugee social assistance
- Caritas Switzerland hardship aid (charity)
- Swiss Winter Aid (charity)
- Swiss Food Bank (Schweizer Tafel)
- Tischlein deck dich food distribution
- Pro Senectute free advice and financial aid for the elderly
- Victim support under the Victim Support Act (OHG)