Social Security will look for alternatives to the PGE to guarantee income to pay pensions. The Government has decided to stop preparing the General State Budgets for this year (which should have come into force in January) following the decision of the Generalitat of Catalonia to bring forward the elections.
The Minister of Social Security, Elma Saiz, stressed on Friday that her administration is "very capable of continuing to work with these budgets" The key is in the transfers it has received from the State for a few years and without which the system would not be sustainable.