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How Can Citizens Advice Bureau Spain Benefit You?

As an expatriate living in Spain; do you find that the Spanish bureaucratic system can be disconcerting? Have you discovered that the simplest of transactions are difficult to conclude? Find yourself searching for answers to problems only to discover that there is nowhere where you could find a solution? I am assuming that the answer is yes and that is why should be a member of our web site if you arent already.

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Covid 19 Extension Alleviating Measures Till 31.1.2021

Update 29.9.2020 Extension of measures with **  till 31.1.2021 approved in Consejo de Ministros today. As approved during the Consejo de Ministros July 7, 2020. Automated translation of a summary on the Moncloa website. Relief of the financial ...

Is There Still Time To Get New Residency Document And Exchange Driving Licence Before 31.12.2020

With the recently announced new procedure for first time residents, so those that do not have a green EU residency certificate as proof of their registration on the Registro de Extranjeros de la Unión, it will become increasingly uncertain if U...

Complaints Form Madrid

In Madrid there is a special complaints form for those establishments and service providers that are not regulated by a professional body and/or separate regulation with regards to complaints procedures. Information HERE And HERE ...

Single Parent Family Title / Titulo Familia Monoparental Catalunya

Info on how to apply on the website of the Generalitat. Link HERE   For Alicante/Valencia HERE ...

What To Do If You Are Charged Extra For Covid Measures?

The Consumers Department of the Junta de Andalucia has issued a warning for all businesses that they are not allowed to transfer the extra costs involved with the obligatory protective COVID measures in place, as an extra cost on an invoice or q...

Covid 19 Ertes And Income Tax (renta) 2020 (declare 2021)

As ERTE payments are unemployment benefits paid out by SEPE, they will be seen as another source of income from work for the purpose of your resident’s income tax RENTA in 2021, over tax year 2020. This could cause you to be obliged to fil...

Register On The Padrón Before Residency Or Not? Plus Faqs

Whenever such a question arises on our Facebook forum, we get a plethora of responses when members share their experiences.  Members who had to register on the census before being provided with the residency certificate and those that registere...

New Normality Health&safety Non University Education 2020 2021

Automated translation of an article on the Moncloa website. The Ministries of Health and of Education and Vocational Training have finalized the guide of recommendations with measures of prevention, hygiene and health promotion for the academic ...

Covid 19 Reopening Seguridad Social, Employment Agencies, Tax Offices

The Seguridad Social will re-open most of their offices to the public as of the 25th of June, both the INSS and the TGSS. For the INSS you need an appointment. You can call 901 10 65 70  or make an appointment online, through their website. You...

Covid 19 What Happens If There Is A 'brote'/spike In New Cases

Now that the State of Alarm is no longer in force, the health authorities in the Autonomous Regions must decide themselves if they want a certain area or province where there has been a spike in new cases, to go back in the de-escalation plan. E...