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If you work in Portugal, part of your income has to go to Segurança Social, the country’s social security system. […]

In our previous newsletter we looked at the new affordable rent regime: the state gives the owner a tax break

Since 1 September, Portugal has had a new Regime Simplificado de Arrendamento Acessível (RSAA) — a simplified regime for affordable renting.

You open a supplier’s website: the first screen promises a discount, further down it offers to put electricity and gas

Portugal’s official gazette, the Diário da República, has published the law that everyone here has been calling the Lei do

You go away for a week, barely switch a light on, and the bill comes back almost unchanged. Or you

The rubbish hasn’t been collected in two weeks, the school roof leaks, the playground is falling apart — and it

If you have looked for a job in Portugal, you know the routine: an advert without a single figure, and

August and early September are moving season — apartment-hunting time. At a summer viewing the windows are open, the walls

How to See a Doctor in Portugal: SNS, Private Clinics, Insurance and a Family Doctor There are two main routes

Portugal’s Constitutional Court found no breach of the Constitution in any of the contested provisions of the new Lei do

From the start of the new school year a pupil in a Portuguese school will not be able to take