Social services

Contact	Opening hours
Service / Person in charge : Marie-Anne BENNE Email : accueilcpas@hotton.be Fax : 084 46 74 40 SOCIAL WORKERS : Laurence Evrard : 084/ 37 41 55 Marie-Thérèse Laurent : 084/ 37 41 56 Françoise Marthoz : 084/ 37 41 57 Françoise Dehar: 084/ 37 41 58 Nathalie Widart : 084/ 43 01 11	Mondays – Thursdays	from 9h to 11h30 The chairman welcomes you on Saturdays from 9 a.m. till noon at the Municipal Administration.
To join us	C.P.A.S. (Public Centre for Community Action) Rue des Ecoles, 29 • 6990 Hotton

The CPAS delivers accurate and updated information on social rights, right to housing, right to work, job search assistance and any other social matter.
The CPAS jointly collaborates with various partners specialized in specific sectors.
The CPAS departments listen to citizens. Each user is entitled to a personal and professional one-on-one mentoring programme which results into follow-up of petitions, directing users to another possible department if more appropriate, support, filing miscellaneous requests, job search assistance...
Any person living within the municipal jurisdiction can sollicitate interventions from the CPAS. These interventions are awarded after analysis of the petition.
There are currently different kinds of assistance services :

* the Social Integration Income (R.I.S.), formerly known as « minimex », implemented as:
a job and/or a minimum income grant,
* financial and material aids,
* psychological assistance such as listening and moral support,
* administrative assistance,
* financial guidance, energy management (water, electricity, heating)
* sports cheques.