PRR Funds Transform Social Security: Digital Overhaul, Accessibility Boost, and 547 Electric Vehicles Deployed
September 2, 2026
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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