Abstract: Service assistance is an overall extension of the urban poverty relief system in terms of concept, content and form in this new era. It carries out social assistance in the form of providing the poor with services and is an essential part of Urban Poverty Relief System. Cooperating well with three existing urban assistancesbasic living assistance, special assistance and emergent assistance, it could efficiently solve the conflicts between institutional rigidity and the variety of needs in the antipoverty practices. This paper also offers policy suggestions for service assistance from the point of framework design, mechanism setting, techniques, supervision and evaluation, fund guarantee. 

Key words: Service Assistance, Urban Poverty, Social Assistance