With 2025 over, the budget for the Plan that provided some relief to families with members with severe disabilities has also run out. "What should we do now?" they ask, exhausted by the scarcity of the so-called breathsTemporary stay programs in residences for people with disabilities so that families can have a break. Furthermore, these are families forcibly impoverished so that the dependency or disability entails an additional economic cost in therapies, prostheses, and caregivers that are not always covered by the public administration.

To illustrate the financial obstacles, Artur Feijóo unfolds a chart. It shows the payment schedule for the subsidies received by TEB—the cooperative group he leads—to pay the salaries of the approximately 650 people with disabilities employed in its special work centers and the support staff who accompany them. He says they only just received 100% of the subsidies for 2024 this November, while for 2025 they have only received 15% so far. "We're at our limit," Feijóo admits. The delay in receiving these funds from the Generalitat (the regional government) has forced them to take out loans to pay salaries and cover the interest—between 60,000 and 70,000 euros—on these loans. If they manage to break even this year, it will be because the cooperative's members have made contributions to avoid losses. "We've been living in uncertainty for many years," Feijóo laments.