PRR Funds Transform Social Security: Digital Overhaul, Accessibility Boost, and 547 Electric Vehicles Deployed

September 2, 2026
PRR Funds Transform Social Security: Digital Overhaul, Accessibility Boost, and 547 Electric Vehicles Deployed
  • PRR investments funded a broad social-guardrail transformation, delivering stronger social responses, improved accessibility, extensive skills training for hundreds of thousands, and a sweeping digital overhaul of Social Security.

  • The digital transformation includes process simplification, new online services, automated benefits, and better interoperability with other public entities, all funded by PRR.

  • The program also acquired 547 adapted electric motor vehicles to enhance mobility and service delivery.

  • Total social care capacity goals were surpassed, potentially reaching around 40,000 places, with government funding arrangements for completed works through late August and exploration of alternative funding for late-stage projects.

  • Accessibility improvements expanded across public spaces and private residences, covering over 76,000 square meters and more than 1,250 buildings and dwellings.

  • The initiative created or remodeled more than 28,500 social care places, including nurseries, elderly residential structures, home support, day centers, collaborative housing, and inclusion centers.

  • Since April 2024, financial execution accelerated from a low base, with spending on these projects rising significantly, not exceeding 21% previously.

  • The Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security announced full completion, and in many cases overachievement, of all PRR goals under its remit, with investments totaling 1.4 billion euros.

  • Training and qualifications saw over 600 million euros invested, benefiting more than 450,000 trainees through Empleo + Digital, exceeding targets by over 200%, and modernizing more than 40,000 training posts.

  • New online services via Seguranç a Social Direta expanded coverage to family allowances, parental benefits, pensions, and social protection, with online parental subsidy requests jumping from about 16,000 to roughly 106,000.

  • Pension and social support reform advanced through PSU consolidation, unifying 13 non-contributory benefits to improve adequacy, coverage, access, and poverty reduction.

  • The sector deployed over 2,000 electric vehicles for IPSS organizations to support transport, meal delivery, home care, and related services.

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