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SOCIAL PROTECTION IN SPAIN
Spain offers a very comprehensive set of benefits for those paying into the social security system. As soon as you start payments you will be issued with a temporary paper card giving you a number, and this will eventually be replaced by a permanent plastic one resembling a credit card.
Benefits offers include:
- Healthcare (you are able to visit a Spanish GP free of charge on presentation of your social security card
- Temporary and permanent disability
- Maternity leave
- Retirement
- Family benefits
- Unemployment benefit
- Death and survivors:
- Bereavement aid
- Widow's pension
- Orphan's pension
- Family members' pension and subsidy
- Compensation lump sum payment
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