HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Corbett and his budget secretary have used stark terms to discuss the state of Pennsylvania’s public-sector pensions, a topic that many expect to be addressed when their 2014-15 budget proposal is unveiled in a little more than a week.

The challenge they face is that the cost to maintain the state government pension system, and to pay the state’s share of public school workers’ pensions, is about to increase by $600 million.

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