AfD on work and social affairs

The AfD wants to push at the federal level for basic income support to focus more on work incentives, so that people who work are clearly better off than those who do not. Rules on additional earnings would be reformed and working hours made more flexible.

The AfD wants to change basic income support. That is money from the state for people without income. Working should pay more than not working. Working hours should also be more flexible.

The AfD wants to address the shortage of skilled workers by removing disincentives rather than through state steering and blanket funding programs. Rigid working-time rules would be dismantled. For seasonal industries such as tourism, the platform mentions annual working-time accounts and flexible weekly models based on actual demand.

The AfD wants to make public spaces fully accessible without barriers. Together with companies and social insurance agencies, more people with severe disabilities are to be brought into work.

People with disabilities should be able to get around everywhere. The AfD wants to remove barriers in public places. More people with severe disabilities should find work. The AfD wants to work with companies on this.

The program names two plans for people with disabilities. First, access to public spaces is to be made barrier-free. Second, the AfD wants to work out measures with businesses and the responsible social insurance agencies to raise the employment rate of people with severe disabilities.

The AfD wants Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to create an allowance for deaf people modeled on the existing allowance for blind people. Blind, severely visually impaired, and deaf people as well as children with the most severe disabilities are to receive financial compensation for their disadvantages.

Blind people get money from the state. The AfD wants the same kind of money for deaf people. Deaf means a person cannot hear. Children with very severe disabilities should also get support.

The platform promises appropriate compensation for four groups: blind people, people with severe visual impairment, deaf people, and children with the most severe disabilities. The one concrete new benefit it names is an allowance for deaf people. The existing allowance for blind people serves as the model.

The AfD wants to further develop the state's law on welfare funding and transparency. Executives at welfare and social service organizations would have to disclose their compensation so that, in the party's view, taxpayer money reaches the places where it is needed.

Welfare groups get money from the state. The AfD wants to know what their bosses earn. The groups should show this in a report. That way the money should reach the people who need help.

Managing directors' salaries, additional benefits, and pension entitlements would have to be disclosed. This would happen in a compensation and transparency report. The platform argues that there must be no self-serving behavior at the leadership level. At the same time, it praises the work of staff and volunteers in social services.