The Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA for short, A4A or Arbeitsagentur) ('Federal Employment Agency') is a German federal agency under the Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs.

[1] The BA manages job centres across Germany and administers unemployment benefits.

In a few areas, the ministry also has the right to issue instructions and carries out technical supervision, e.g. for unemployment statistics (Section 283 Para.

2 SGB III) and the employment of foreigners and immigrants (Section 288 Para.

As special departments of the Federal Employment Agency, family allowance offices are responsible for implementing child benefit and for calculating and paying child supplements in accordance with Section 6a of the BKGG.