The aim of this study is to investigate how different factors are behind the fact that clients are in need of financial assistance for a longer period of time and how the support affects the clients' ability to work. Furthermore, the aim is to examine how the social workers work to counteract clients who are dependent on benefits. The questions that pervade our work are: What are the underlying factors behind clients ending up dependent on benefits?, How does the client's dependency on benefits affect their opportunity to work? and How does the social worker work on financial assistance to prevent clients from ending up dependent on benefits?. Questions have been answered using semi-structured interviews with four social workers from financial assistance. The results of the study have been analyzed using previous research and three different theories: stigma, social capitalism and social constructivism. The conclusion of this study has shown that the main underlying factors of benefit dependency are unemployment. The conclusion has also shown that dependency on benefits contributes to negative consequences for the clients as they do not establish themselves in society, which contributes to an increase in the need for financial assistance. Furthermore, the conclusion showed that the social worker makes use of several efforts to combat the dependency on benefits in clients. Among other things, the social worker uses motivational talks to motivate the clients but also offer the clients to participate in various efforts such as language development courses and practice.