AfD on work and social affairs

The AfD wants social insurance benefits to be available only after a minimum period of contributions. According to the platform, foreigners seeking protection must prove themselves worthy of help or be deported immediately. The party rejects a Europe-wide social insurance system.

The AfD wants to change the rules for social insurance. Only people who have paid in long enough should get benefits. Foreigners who seek protection should follow the rules. If not, the AfD wants to deport them. The AfD rejects one shared social insurance for all of Europe.

The platform calls aid for people in need and disaster victims a matter of course, but says it must not endanger Germany's own capacity. Anyone who wants to belong to the community permanently should be able to integrate and support themselves and their family. In the AfD's view, the social market economy needs a national framework. It argues that Europe-wide social insurance would come at the expense of German contributors. Politicians who grossly waste public money are to face personal consequences.

The AfD Saarland wants to replace the employer share of social insurance contributions with a levy on value added. Companies would then contribute to social insurance according to their economic output rather than the number and pay of their employees. The party also calls for a digital tax.

The AfD wants a new levy for companies. It is a levy on the value a company creates. Companies would pay into social insurance based on their output. Today they pay based on how many workers they have and what they earn. The AfD also wants a digital tax.

The platform considers today's contribution basis unsustainable because the world of work is changing. Citizens pay according to their ability, it says, while companies pay only according to their employees' wages. In the AfD's view this penalizes firms with many employees and encourages wage dumping and job cuts. The new levy is meant to take the place of the employer share of contributions, which are currently split evenly between employers and employees.

The AfD wants to create inclusive local communities so that people with disabilities can take part in work and social life on their own terms. Accessibility is to become mandatory for municipalities, and inclusion projects are to receive permanent funding. According to the platform, sheltered workshops remain the central place for participation.

The AfD wants to remove barriers for people with disabilities. Towns and cities should be required to do this. This covers public offices, doctors' offices and buses, for example. Workshops for people with disabilities should stay important. There should also be more suitable jobs.

The party supports permanent funding for inclusion projects and inclusion officers at the municipal level and considers it helpful when people with disabilities fill these roles themselves. Accessibility should no longer be a voluntary, underfunded task but an obligation for access to education, social facilities, public offices, medical practices and public transit. Integration into the regular labor market is to be strengthened through more support for inclusion companies and inclusion departments. More jobs suited to people with disabilities are to be created in public administration. Support services are to connect seamlessly to ensure lifelong participation.