Pensions, Benefits and Healthcare

[DWPinSpain]

Britons in the Canary Islands get the chance to find out more about their social security rights in Spain

Have your friends told you a person needs to work 15 years in Spain to be entitled to a Spanish pension?

That you can get medical treatment at the health centre in the town where you live just by showing your UK-issued European Health Insurance Card?

And that if you were thinking of going back to the UK, you’d have to wait at least 6 months to access NHS health care?

Well things might not be quite as they seem - the statements above are all false. Don’t listen to misleading rumours, come and hear from the experts. The British Consulate is holding a series of open events in Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria to offer advice on some of the issues that matter most to British people living in Spain.

As well as learning more about the services offered by the Consulate, Britons will have the opportunity to find out about their pension and benefit rights and responsibilities as residents in Spain.

How to correctly register for healthcare is an increasingly hot topic among residents and this will also be on the agenda, as will where to apply for the European Health Insurance Card.

Those attending can submit questions for the panel in advance and should do so when booking their place at the event. The question and answer session will follow the main presentation.

The events will take place on Tuesday 6th, Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th March 2012 as follows:

Puerto de la Cruz – Tuesday 6th March - 10.30 am (doors open 10 am). Hotel Palmeras Playa – Salon Teide
Avenida Venezuela 12
Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife

Los Cristianos, Arona – Tuesday 6th March - 6.30 pm (doors open 6 pm)Auditorio Infanta Leonor
Avenida Juan Carlos I
Los Cristianos, Tenerife

Corralejo, Fuerteventura – Wednesday 7th March - 11.30 am (doors open 11 am). Auditorio de Corralejo
Calle Guriamen 2
Corralejo (next to Baku Park)

Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote – Wednesday 7th March 2012 - 6 pm (doors open 5.30 pm)Centro Cívico El Fondeadero
C/ Lanzarote, nº 1
Puerto del Carmen

Arguineguín, Gran Canaria – Thursday 8th March 2012 - 6 pm (doors open 5.30 pm)ANFI
Barranco de la Verga 7
35120 – Arguineguín

To book a place online, please visit Open day events. If you experience any problems booking or do not have Internet access, please call 902 109 356 (alternative number 913 344 763).

Please note places are limited and can only be guaranteed if reserved in advance.

[redvivalinda]

Do you no if there are doing any of these talks in Alacante Benidorm or surounding areas. thanks

[xabiachica]

Originally Posted by redvivalinda

Do you no if there are doing any of these talks in Alacante Benidorm or surounding areas. thanks

keep an eye on the forum - they post here when there will be a meeting anywhere

[Alcalaina]

They also post all this information on their website.

Pensions, benefits, healthcare

[Pesky Wesky]

Originally Posted by Alcalaina

They also post all this information on their website.

Pensions, benefits, healthcare

AND...
on that page there's a link to a monthy newsletter about pensions, benefits and healthcare. Here's the link for January
http://ukinspain.fco.gov.uk/resource...er-january2012

[xabiachica]

Originally Posted by Alcalaina

They also post all this information on their website.

Pensions, benefits, healthcare

Originally Posted by Pesky Wesky

AND...
on that page there's a link to a monthy newsletter about pensions, benefits and healthcare. Here's the link for January
http://ukinspain.fco.gov.uk/resource...er-january2012

and there was me trying to get the new poster to come back & join in

[Pesky Wesky]

Originally Posted by xabiachica

and there was me trying to get the new poster to come back & join in

Great idea for the new poster to come back...
And perhaps tell us more about his/ her life in Spain for example, which in turn may help out a lot of other people

[redvivalinda]

Originally Posted by Pesky Wesky

Great idea for the new poster to come back...
And perhaps tell us more about his/ her life in Spain for example, which in turn may help out a lot of other people

We Lived in Spain for a number of years we had a bar in Benidorm we had to return home because of ill health but miss Spain a lot we still come over for a few months but we are thinking of moving back hopefully I am retired and so is my partner my health is a lot better over there but with the euro being low we had to think very hard,

[Pesky Wesky]

Originally Posted by redvivalinda

We Lived in Spain for a number of years we had a bar in Benidorm we had to return home because of ill health but miss Spain a lot we still come over for a few months but we are thinking of moving back hopefully I am retired and so is my partner my health is a lot better over there but with the euro being low we had to think very hard,

Well, that is interesting!
So many people want to open a bar on the costa del sol.
Please, if you have time, open a thread about having a bar in Benidorm, and tell us all about it - good points and bad. It would the most popular thread in years!

[xabiachica]

Originally Posted by Pesky Wesky

Well, that is interesting!
So many people want to open a bar on the costa del sol.
Please, if you have time, open a thread about having a bar in Benidorm, and tell us all about it - good points and bad. It would the most popular thread in years!

it would be indeed be great to have someone post first hand experience of running a bar in Spain