Joel is a 65-year-old retired teacher, who dedicated more than 30 years to teaching in public secondary schools. Today, he wanted to tell what his life is like after leaving the classroom. “My retirement pension is 2,700 euros gross per month, or approximately 2,454 euros net,” he explains. An amount ...
Return to parents’ home It has become an increasingly common trend among young people (and not so young) due to the high price of housing both for sale and for rent. This is not a problem that affects only Spain, but appears in other countries such as Ireland where a ...
Social rejection of any extension of the legal retirement age is massive. A Funcas survey reveals that opposition to delaying the retirement age to 70 is widespread, reaching 96% among women aged 18 to 30 and 83% among men. Now, this perception clashes head-on with the observed trend and the ...
The Provincial Court of Madrid has sentenced a man to pay 24,185 euros for having lived for more than a decade in the apartment that his partner gave him. bequeathed in will without assuming any of the expenses associated with its use. Although the legacy of use and habitation for ...
The Government has decreed the mandatory confinement of all poultry raised outdoors in Spain due to the increased risk of contagion from avian flu. The crisis that has opened in this sector due to the presence of the avian flu virus is raising many questions among citizens, among them whether ...
One of the great dilemmas that currently exists in Spain revolves around pensions, an issue that has several aspects and among the most worrying aspects are the sustainability of the model, about which economists such as Gonzalo Bernardos have spoken, or whether they are sufficient, especially in those of early ...
The average electricity price for this Wednesday, November 12, 2025, is 27.28 euros per megawatt hour (MWh) in the wholesale market. In this way, electricity falls by 59.19%, compared to the price recorded this Tuesday, which stood at 66.88 euros/MWh, according to data published by the Iberian Energy Market Operator ...
At the end of November, Social Security will pay the extra Christmas pay along with the ordinary payroll, so thousands of pensioners and retirees will receive double what they have been receiving in their bank accounts. This extraordinary payment will benefit many, but, among them, the group of retirees who ...
When starting to collect the widow’s pension from ‘Social Security’‘ in the United States (the so-called social security), a woman realized that she did not have enough money to pay for her house and groceries at the supermarket. Faced with this situation, she asked her daughter, who was a single ...
The Treasury makes it clear that a landlord, whether he resides in Spain or not, has to pay taxes in the Income Tax return for the rental income of your home located in Spain, even if the tenant does not pay you and has not received them since, according to ...