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The Bundesamt für Soziale Sicherung (BAS) is a German federal authority that exercises legal supervision over the federally direct statutory health, pension and accident insurance carriers and over social long-term care insurance. It also administers the Gesundheitsfonds, the Transformationsfonds, the Krankenhausstrukturfonds and the Krankenhauszukunftsfonds, and carries out the risk structure compensation and the financial equalisation in social long-term care insurance.

Its supervised bodies include 63 federally direct health insurance funds, to which it provides advice on budgets, statutes, assets and insured persons' benefits. Individuals can file complaints (Eingaben) with the authority about decisions of social insurance carriers. The BAS also contains a maternity benefit office that processes applications for maternity benefit from employed women who are not members of a statutory health insurance fund.

The headquarters is in Bonn, with further sites in Duisburg, Berlin, Cloppenburg, Fulda and Ingolstadt. About 750 people work for the authority, including civil servants and salaried employees, and it offers apprenticeships and dual study programmes. It has held the berufundfamilie audit certificate since 2010. The BAS operates within the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

Product: Legal supervision of federally direct social insurance carriers, administration of federal health funds and risk structure compensation, and maternity benefit processing.