For two decades, Portugal's Social Security system has been frequently pointed out as being close to collapse, with various warnings about its sustainability emerging over the years. However, the catastrophic predictions have been successively postponed, and the system has accumulated surpluses that contradict these warnings.
José António Vieira da Silva, former minister of Labour and Social Security, was Daniel Oliveira's guest on the programme "Perguntar Não Ofende" to analyse the sustainability of the pension system in Portugal. The title of the conversation raises the direct question: "There won't be money?"
In the interview, Vieira da Silva directly addresses the system's sustainability and examines the various reform proposals that have been presented to solve the alleged structural problems of Portuguese Social Security. The former government official seeks to dismantle the narrative that the system is irreparably in crisis.
