1. If a citizen fails to entrust an agent or defender due to financial difficulties, he may apply for legal aid or be appointed by the people's court to defend the following matters:
(1) Request state compensation according to law;
(2) Requesting social insurance benefits or minimum living security benefits;
(3) requesting the payment of pensions and relief funds;
(4) Requesting to pay alimony, alimony and alimony;
(5) Requesting payment of labor remuneration;
(six) to claim the civil rights and interests arising from the courageous behavior.
2. Legal basis: Article 2 of the Provisions of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Legal Aid in Criminal Procedure stipulates that.
If a criminal suspect or defendant fails to entrust a defender due to financial difficulties, he or her and his close relatives may apply for legal aid to the legal aid institutions affiliated to the judicial administrative organs at the same level where the public security organs, people's procuratorates and people's courts are located. Under any of the following circumstances, if a criminal suspect or defendant fails to entrust a defender, he may apply for legal aid in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph:
(a) there is evidence to prove that the criminal suspect or defendant belongs to the first or second degree of intellectual disability;
(2) In the same criminal case, other criminal suspects and defendants have entrusted defenders;
(3) The people's procuratorate lodged a protest;
(4) The case has a significant social impact.
Two, in any of the following circumstances in criminal proceedings, citizens can apply for legal aid to legal aid institutions:
(1) The criminal suspect fails to hire a lawyer due to financial difficulties after being interrogated for the first time by the investigation organ or since the date when compulsory measures are taken;
(2) The victim of a public prosecution case and his legal representative or close relatives have not entrusted an agent ad litem due to financial difficulties since the date when the case was transferred for examination and prosecution;
(three) since the case of private prosecution was accepted by the people's court, the private prosecutor and his legal representative have not entrusted an agent ad litem due to financial difficulties;
(4) If the defendant fails to appoint a defender due to financial difficulties or other reasons, and the people's court appoints a defender for the defendant, the legal aid institution shall provide legal aid;
(5) If the defendant is blind, deaf, dumb or a minor and has not entrusted a defender, or if the defendant may be sentenced to death and has not entrusted a defender, when the people's court appoints a defender for the defendant, the legal aid institution shall provide legal aid without examining the defendant's financial situation.