Month: February 2020

National Police, in collaboration with the Secretary of State for Social Security, have uncovered fraud valued at almost 6 and a half million Euros made by the illegal collection of pensions of people who have died during the past year.  Police have arrested eleven of the 36 people involved in the scam in 21 provinces. They have been charged with 55 crimes against Social Security, fraud, document falsification and misappropriation.

Gabriel Diya's widow has got the go-ahead for the 'parallel investigation' she called for after the Christmas Eve tragedy.  Mr Diya, 52, his son Praise-Emmanuel, 16, and daughter Comfort, nine, drowned in the pool at the holiday resort in Fuengirola, Police say it was an accident but an engineer and a professional diver hired by Mrs Diya's lawyer will now be allowed access to the Club La Costa World pool.

The players from Chinese Super League football team Wuhan Zall have been left kicking their heels during a pre-season trip to Spain after clubs from Russia and Gibraltar cancelled planned friendly matches due to fears of being exposed to the coronavirus. The squad arrived at their training camp in Sotogrande on the Costa del Sol last week to be met with the news that Russian club FK Krasnodar was pulling […]

The number of UK pensioners living in Spain has fallen – in the wake of Brexit – as Britain came out of the European Union last Friday. Figures show that Spain is amongst countries where the numbers of UK pensioners have dropped, in this case by almost 2,000. Figures published reveal a drop of 1,900 expats living abroad in the last five years, falling to a low of 467,000. Spain […]

Employment fell by more than 244,000 people, in January, the biggest drop for the first month of the year since 2013. However, the Social Security Ministry said the overall number of contributors remained above 19 million. Registered unemployment rose by almost 90,250 from December, there are now 3.25 million unemployed in Spain. After Christmas, many seasonal hirings in retail and hospitality come to an end. So do many other contracts […]