According to Rules of Business 2011, Social Welfare and Bait-ul-Maal Department performs the following functions:
- Registration, technical assistance and monitoring of social welfare agencies
- Social protection including institutional care, skill development and rehabilitation
- Registration, assessment, training, employment, and rehabilitation of disabled persons
- Eradication of social evils
- Coordination with and grant-in-aid to non-governmental organizations engaged in the field of narcotics control and rehabilitation of drug addicts
- Relief during calamities and emergencies
- Financial assistance to poor and needy through Punjab Bait-ul-Maal