The Court of First Instance No. 8 of Murcia has sentenced BBVA to pay 5,977 euros, plus legal interest, to a client who was the victim of a telephone scam. It considers that the banking operations that led to the theft of the money were executed incorrectly and without valid ...
Saving is increasingly difficult in Spain. On the one hand, experts recognize that salaries must recover purchasing power, but they also express lack of financial knowledge of most people. And, certainly, as journalist Eli Romero explains in her podcast ‘Has Sense’, “sometimes money doesn’t go into big purchases, but into ...
A woman with breast cancer who worked as a fishmonger has managed to have the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia recognize her pension for permanent total disability, after the National Social Security Institute (INSS) denied it. As the sentence explains, the consequences of the carcinoma, which caused the loss ...
The orphan’s pension is generally received until age 21, or until age 25 if the orphan is studying and does not work or has a low income, although there are exceptions. This exception applies when the son or daughter of the deceased is “incapacitated for work” at the time of ...
It is not the first time that an inheritance ends up in court due to the decision of an elderly person to leave their assets to someone outside the family. This time it happened in the Italian province of Lucca, where a 78-year-old retiree, widowed and childless, named her caregiver ...
The average price of electricity for this Friday, October 17, 2025, drops slightly to 166.39 euros/MWh for consumers with a regulated or indexed rate in the free market, according to data published by Red Eléctrica. This decrease means that electricity is paid 0.41% cheaper than this Thursday, in which the ...
A retired chambermaid remembers how hard they had it in their time to overcome the post-Franco era and what it cost them to obtain a series of rights that are now being questioned again with the rise and fashion of Francoism among young people. More and more young people think ...
The Ibero-American Multilateral Agreement on Social Security of Spain, published in the BOEguarantees the social protection of workers who move between the signatory countries, guaranteeing the main social contingencies such as retirement, disability and survival (widowhood and orphanhood), among others. The agreement does not unify, but rather coordinates the Social ...
When someone receives an inheritance substantial, it is common for them to decide to help their closest relatives financially. However, this is not always the case. This is the case of an 18-year-old girl who, after receiving an inheritance from her grandparents of 840,000 euros and two houses, has decided ...
BBVA’s takeover bid (OPA) for Banco Sabadell, which has generated hundreds of headlines in recent months, has ended up failing obtain 25.47% acceptance by shareholders as reported by the two entities to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV). The operation, which was launched 17 months ago, was conditional on obtaining ...