Category: Practical Info

If you are interested in trying to keep the winter fuel allowance please support the petition. You can sign the petition even if you are getting your allowance in the UK. If it gets at least 100,000 signatures, it will be considered for discussion in the House of Commons. https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/73368/signature/new  Please pass on to any of…

Our member Colin McNae shared this information: “Our Members may be interested in reading the paper below where the UK government have launched a consultation paper with a view to removing the UK Tax Allowance from non resident UK nationals. This would affect everyone with a government pension, e.g. teachers, nurses, armed forces etc.”https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/restricting-non-residents-entitlement-to-the-uk-personal-allowance/restricting-non-residents-entitlement-to-the-uk-personal-allowance

Caterpillars and beetles. Please be on the lookout for these two harmful insects. Do not touch the caterpillars. The hairs on the outside of their bodies are very poisonous (even when they are dead!). They can kill domestic pets and seriously affect humans. There is lots of information about them on the internet. The beetles are still destroying the palm…

British voters Registration Day Don’t loose your vote in the forthcoming European Parliament elections British citizens living here can vote in the European Parliamentary elections if they have been registered to vote in the UK within the last 15 years. But you must be on the electoral register back in the UK. Print a registration…

Please see below some notes direct from the UK Embassy (UKINSPAIN) https://www.gov.uk/living-in-spain  click here or https://www.gov.uk/residency-requirements-in-spain#registering-on-the-padrn Registering on the padrón The padrón is a list of all the people who live in a certain town. Empadronarse is the act of registering yourself on this list with your local town hall. Who should register? It is obligatory…

by Margaret Roberts Having successfully renewed my own Passport several years ago through Madrid, when Don’s needed doing, I downloaded the forms, had the application countersigned and the photo endorsed and sat down at the weekend to gather everything together ready for posting. The first thing I found out is that Madrid stopped doing renewals…