What does Agentur für Arbeit mean?
The Agentur für Arbeit (employment agency) helps you find work and pays Arbeitslosengeld. It is often called Arbeitsagentur.
die Agentur für Arbeit · die Agenturen für Arbeit (plural)
It is part of the Bundesagentur für Arbeit (Federal Employment Agency). Many towns have an agency or a local office.
If your job is ending, register with the Agentur für Arbeit as early as possible. People who register late often get less money.
The Jobcenter is something different. It pays money to live on if you get no Arbeitslosengeld or the money is not enough.
You can file a Widerspruch against a Bescheid from the Agentur für Arbeit. The deadline is in the Rechtsbehelfsbelehrung.
Example sentence
Die Agentur für Arbeit hat über Ihren Antrag auf Arbeitslosengeld entschieden.
The Agentur für Arbeit has decided on your application for Arbeitslosengeld (unemployment benefit).
What you can do
Write your Kundennummer on every letter to the Agentur für Arbeit. You can also do many things online.
Related words
- Arbeitslosengeld Arbeitslosengeld (unemployment benefit) is money from the Agentur für Arbeit if you have lost your job and were insured before.
- Jobcenter The Jobcenter pays money to live on to people who can work but do not have enough money. It also helps with finding work.
- Kundennummer The Kundennummer (customer number) is your number at an office or a company, for example at the Agentur für Arbeit.
- Einladung With an Einladung (invitation), an office invites you to an appointment. At the Jobcenter and the Agentur für Arbeit, you must attend.
- Bescheid A Bescheid is a letter in which an office decides something about your case.