Social law is one of the youngest scientific disciplines. Part of social law is social care. Social care is an organized activity of the welfare state. The Republic of Croatia is a welfare state and is obliged to ensure the implementation of social welfare plans and programs through social policy measures. Social policy is a set of measures and actions aimed at establishing social security for all citizens. The subject of social policy is man with all his needs. A beneficiary in the social welfare system is a single person or household who find themselves in a state of social need and who receive certain social benefits in order to overcome that state. Social benefits are rights prescribed by the Social Welfare Act. According to the form, they can be in money, in kind and in services, and according to the time they can be permanent, temporary, occasional and one-time. Social welfare activities are performed by social welfare institutions and other entities. The new institution established on January 1, 2023 is the Croatian Institute for Social Work. The institute took over the tasks of the center for social welfare. Subjects of the social legal relationship in the first degree are the Institute, and in the second degree the ministry responsible for social welfare affairs and the competent administrative body of the regional self-government unit. In the procedure for recognition of rights in the social welfare system, a decision is made, and the legal remedy is an appeal.