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The Government has approved the granting of a credit to Social Security worth 13.8 billion euros with which to ensure the payment of pensions. The figure is the same that was granted last year, since it is the one that is entered in the General State Budgets carried over, but from the Ministry they do not know if it will be enough or if it will be necessary to enable a new loan in the face of the undoubted collapse that they will suffer. contribution income.

"In the months of June and November, Social Security jointly pays the ordinary and extraordinary payroll of pensions, an outlay of around 20,000 million euros and which may generate liquidity tensions to the System, after the exceptional measures taken by the Covid 19 pandemic, "explains the Ministry of Social Security in the press release it has published.

And it is that although the measure has been approved in the Council of Ministers and the usual thing is that the government spokesman communicates the already habitual granting of this credit, the spokeswoman María Jesús Montero has not announced the loan during the subsequent press conference.

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