The need for help from a third person to carry out daily activities are between 12% of the elderly and 26% depending on the dependence degree. One of the solutions that our society have for this necessity is the informal care, which is normally provided by family members, relatives, friends and mostly by women. Previous researches have proof that informal care givers eventually suffer to informal caregiver overload. The aim of our study is to know the overload of informal caregivers of dependent persons, in families that are beneficiaries of the Home Help Service (SAD) and in families that are not beneficiaries of this service in Seville. Following this goal, we have created a questionary composed by ad-hoc socio-demographic variables and The Zarit Caregiver Overload Scale, delivered to a sample of 40 care givers, we have concluded that care givers who does not have the public Home Help Service present a higher level of overload.