IS LIFE GETTING A LOT HARDER
Jul 8th 2009, 6:43 pm
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Re: IS LIFE GETTING A LOT HARDER
There are no benefits full stop as in no pension credits, no council tax relief, no assistance to pay rent or mortgage interest, no family credit no unemployment benefit all of which are freely available to anyone in the UK irrespective of their contribution record.
I am not sure if it is true but have read that free health entitlement ceases after 3 months after a self employed person stops paying into the system
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Jul 8th 2009, 6:55 pm
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Re: IS LIFE GETTING A LOT HARDER
If I lose my job in Spain I get 70% of my salary up to 1,400 euros a month. Sounds a lot better than the £60 a week you get at in the UK. ok it only lasts between 6months-5 years depending how long you worked, but stil.....
Also, if your company wants to sack you they have to pay you 45 days salary for every year you have worked. I know someone who got a 100k euros payoff cos they had worked for 30 years
In that respect Spain wins hands down
Also, if your company wants to sack you they have to pay you 45 days salary for every year you have worked. I know someone who got a 100k euros payoff cos they had worked for 30 years
In that respect Spain wins hands down
Employees who lose their jobs in UK get redundancy money and I know of people in quite ordinary jobs in the UK who were given much more than 100K to quit their job.
Jul 8th 2009, 7:15 pm
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Re: IS LIFE GETTING A LOT HARDER
A large proportion of employees in the UK are now on temporary contracts, casual workers etc (I believe it's the same in Spain) and so get no redundancy money when the company sheds jobs. A typical example was BMW in Cowley a few months ago - they were forced to lay off hundreds of staff, who were unable to take any redundancy payments as they were "agency staff" despite in some cases having worked for BMW for 5 or 6 years.
Jul 8th 2009, 8:21 pm
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Re: IS LIFE GETTING A LOT HARDER
Not for a full pension.
Los trabajadores autónomos que tengan 65 o más años de edad y acrediten 35 años o más de cotización efectiva, a la Seguridad Social, les será de aplicación la exoneración de cuotas, salvo por incapacidad temporal y en su caso por contingencias profesionales, de acuerdo con lo establecido en la disposición adicional trigésima segunda de la Ley General de la Seguridad Social.
(taken from the seg social web site)
Los trabajadores autónomos que tengan 65 o más años de edad y acrediten 35 años o más de cotización efectiva, a la Seguridad Social, les será de aplicación la exoneración de cuotas, salvo por incapacidad temporal y en su caso por contingencias profesionales, de acuerdo con lo establecido en la disposición adicional trigésima segunda de la Ley General de la Seguridad Social.
(taken from the seg social web site)
Jul 8th 2009, 8:37 pm
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Re: IS LIFE GETTING A LOT HARDER
If I lose my job in Spain I get 70% of my salary up to 1,400 euros a month. Sounds a lot better than the £60 a week you get at in the UK. ok it only lasts between 6months-5 years depending how long you worked, but stil.....
Also, if your company wants to sack you they have to pay you 45 days salary for every year you have worked. I know someone who got a 100k euros payoff cos they had worked for 30 years
In that respect Spain wins hands down
Also, if your company wants to sack you they have to pay you 45 days salary for every year you have worked. I know someone who got a 100k euros payoff cos they had worked for 30 years
In that respect Spain wins hands down
Jul 8th 2009, 8:38 pm
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Jul 8th 2009, 10:45 pm
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Re: IS LIFE GETTING A LOT HARDER
If I lose my job in Spain I get 70% of my salary up to 1,400 euros a month. Sounds a lot better than the £60 a week you get at in the UK. ok it only lasts between 6months-5 years depending how long you worked, but stil.....
Also, if your company wants to sack you they have to pay you 45 days salary for every year you have worked. I know someone who got a 100k euros payoff cos they had worked for 30 years
In that respect Spain wins hands down
Also, if your company wants to sack you they have to pay you 45 days salary for every year you have worked. I know someone who got a 100k euros payoff cos they had worked for 30 years
In that respect Spain wins hands down
70 per cent may sound good, but if you are on a salary of 1000 a month that means you will get 700 and there are some stoppages taken out, not much, but some.
It may be fine for a single person, but if you have a spouse and kiddies and are renting, you would be better off in the UK, with housing benefit and such plus extra payments for dependants.
Also 2 years passes quickly and the peace of mind you have knowing that dole is forever in the UK is worth a great deal.
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Jul 9th 2009, 5:26 am
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Re: IS LIFE GETTING A LOT HARDER
Which is why I said zilch for self employed in Spain.
There are no benefits full stop as in no pension credits, no council tax relief, no assistance to pay rent or mortgage interest, no family credit no unemployment benefit all of which are freely available to anyone in the UK irrespective of their contribution record.
I am not sure if it is true but have read that free health entitlement ceases after 3 months after a self employed person stops paying into the system
There are no benefits full stop as in no pension credits, no council tax relief, no assistance to pay rent or mortgage interest, no family credit no unemployment benefit all of which are freely available to anyone in the UK irrespective of their contribution record.
I am not sure if it is true but have read that free health entitlement ceases after 3 months after a self employed person stops paying into the system
Jul 9th 2009, 7:19 am
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Re: IS LIFE GETTING A LOT HARDER
Is that true? I know I'm somewhat out of touch with the jobs market from a personal basis, but when my elder son got a job & was given a 4 year contract with the British Museum recently I was miffed for him, thinking he'd been shafted & should have had open-ended like I was used to...... sounds as though it was a good deal better than many, though.
Jul 9th 2009, 8:19 am
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