AfD on work and social affairs

The AfD wants to raise the Landesblindengeld (state allowance for blind people) from €410 to at least €600 and index it to inflation. It argues that the amount has not been adjusted since 2003. A separate allowance for deafblind people is also to be introduced.

Blind people get money from the state. Today it is 410 euros. The AfD wants to pay at least 600 euros. The amount should rise with prices. People who are both blind and deaf should get their own allowance.

The increase is to take place by the end of the legislative term. After that, the amount is to rise automatically with the inflation rate. The allowance is to be decoupled from long-term care benefits. The deafblind allowance is to follow the Berlin model and be clearly higher than the combined amounts for blind and deaf people. Other groups entitled under the state care allowance law are to see a proportionate improvement. More generally, the AfD wants to strengthen participation and independence for people with disabilities and names accessibility as a precondition.

The AfD wants to allow the state audit office to inspect state-funded workshops for people with disabilities without needing a specific reason. This is meant to ensure that the money reaches the people being cared for.

The state gives money to workshops for people with disabilities. The audit office should be allowed to check these workshops at any time. The audit office checks how state money is spent. The AfD says this makes sure the money reaches the people.

According to the platform, previous state governments have refused to grant such an audit right. The AfD considers it a matter of course for recipients of public grants. The audits are meant to prevent state funds from going to high executive salaries, inefficient structures or improper uses. Workshop employees and their families are supposed to benefit.

The AfD wants the Berufsgenossenschaften (employers' liability insurance associations) to stop choosing their own medical assessors. Instead, assessors are to be assigned by lottery. This is meant to make them independent and strengthen people affected by workplace accidents and occupational diseases.

Some people get sick because of their work. Then an expert checks the case. Today the insurance association picks the expert. The AfD wants a lottery to pick the expert. This should make experts independent.

The platform describes legitimate claims failing in court when appointed assessors deny a link to the job. Assessors who often recognize illnesses are said to lose commissions. In the AfD's view, a lottery is the only way to get independent assessments. If the insurance associations pay as required, the other social insurance funds would also be relieved.