Until just over a year ago, the universal basic income (UBI) was one of the proposals at the center of the debate regarding innovative social policies. Its universality generated division: those in favor considered it a transformative and interesting policy precisely for that reason, while opponents argued that social benefits should discriminate positively based on income. Pere Aragonès's government embraced the idea of universality and promoted a pilot project on the basic income, aimed at a small group of people to study the extent to which it can improve the lives of those who receive it. Although one of the conditions of ERC's support for Salvador Illa's investiture was precisely to maintain this pilot project, the project is currently on hold, according to several sources told ARA.