AfD Chairwoman Alice Weidel will stop foreign nationals receiving Bürgergeld payments. “We’re saying clearly, Bürgergeld per se for foreign citizens, that’s not going to work” she said to RTL and ntv senders.

Weidel also demands stricter rules for German Bürgergeld recipients: “They must make it so attractive that people come back to work, that work becomes worthwhile again.” No one should say, “I’ll get a lot more on Bürgergeld than if I started as a skilled worker at that company.” That won’t work, it’s a “complete misincentivization”, according to the AfD chairwoman.