The Payments in Recognition of Ghetto Work working group (AG AfG) is responsible for evaluating applications for one-off payments in connection with work in a ghetto during the Nazi era.

Federal government guidelines of 31 March 2021 regarding transitional payments to surviving spouses of victims of National Socialist injustice, who, until their death, received pension payments pursuant to the Federal Compensation Act (Bundesentschädigungsgesetz) or received ongoing payments from the Compensation Reserve Fund (Wiedergutmachungs-Dispositions-Fonds) pursuant to section 5 of the General Act Regulating Compensation for War-induced Losses (Allgemeines Kriegsfolgengesetz, AKG), pursuant to sections 5 and 6 of the AKG Hardship Guidelines (AKG-Härterichtlinien) or from the fund for persons affected by the Nuremberg Laws (NGJ-Fonds) on 31 March 2021.

The Registration Information department provides legally binding information, in accordance with the relevant legislation on unresolved property issues, on whether applications have been made for the return of properties in the federal states that were formerly part of East Germany and in former East Berlin.

The BADV administers the archive of the former Office for the Legal Protection of the Assets of the German Democratic Republic (AfR), the records of the vault administration division of the East German Finance Ministry and the restitution archive.

"Public notice procedures" are used to locate unknown or untraceable owners of assets or other holders of rights.

German compensation legislation governs compensation for property losses.

We identify works of art that were seized by the Nazis and that are now in the possession of the German public sector and return them to their rightful owners.

The Open Property Issues Act (Vermögensgesetz) forms the legal basis for decisions on the return of illegally seized property.

Property allocation is a special administrative area which deals with the consequences of German reunification for the state-owned assets of the former East Germany, in terms of legal issues relating to ownership.

The BADV holds around 30 million historical securities from the inventory of the former Office for the Legal Protection of the Assets of the German Democratic Republic. The BADV has also been appointed as the examining authority for the foreign bonds that were issued by the German Reich and Prussia in the 1920s and 1930s.