Filling the car tank, turning on the light or shopping at the supermarket is more expensive, and this has been confirmed by data from the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Inflation has risen to 3%, reaching the highest level since last February and one tenth more than what the data offered ...
The average price of electricity for this Monday, October 13, 2025, is €165.34/MWh for consumers with a regulated or indexed rate in the free market, according to data published by Red Eléctrica. The week begins with an increase in electricity of 7.07% compared with the rate recorded on Sundaywhich implies ...
Social Security has a mechanism to protect the amount of the retirement pension when a worker has periods without contributing, which is the gap integration. In simple words, this system allows you to “fill in” the months in which there was no obligation to contribute within the pension calculation period. ...
The investment expert and founder of ATAIR, Antonio Rivas, has carried out an analysis on the sustainability of the current pension system and the problems that retirees could have in the future to collect this Social Security benefit. He is not the only one who has questioned this and the ...
The lack of opportunities, job insecurity and the difficult access to housing push young Spaniards to look for a place in other countries where they can begin to build their professional career thanks to better economic conditions. Among the preferred destinations for those who emigrate are Australia and Switzerland, where ...
The latest news about pensions in Spain speaks of a possible peak in spending on this benefit by Social Securitytaking into account the upcoming retirement of the so-called ‘baby boomers’. The pension fund, in this way, would be affected and the experts already question the sustainability of the current public ...
Access to housing is one of the biggest problems that currently concerns Spanish society, especially young people, who find it increasingly difficult to buy or rent a home. Prices in the real estate market do not stop growing to such an extent that a jackpot from the Christmas Lottery barely ...
The price of electricity in Spain for this Tuesday, October 14, 2025, rises again, reaching an average of 108.24 euros per megawatt hour (euros/MWh) according to data published by the Iberian Energy Market Operator (OMIE). Electricity will be paid 5.74% more expensive than this Monday when the price was 102.36 ...
To collect the retirement pension it is necessary not only to have at least 15 years of contributions to Social Security, but also to meet other conditions such as the specific deficiency, that is, that of the total years of contributions at least two years are within the last 15 ...
The increase in the retirement age is a current issue both in Europe and beyond. Proof of this is the new Law approved by Denmark sets the retirement age at 70 years which is now followed by a Commonwealth decision in Australia. In this way, since January 1, 2025, the ...