05 Jan 2013 10:56 AM:

Hi and Happy New Year.  Doesn't surprise me that there are problems getting into the website with a NIE, I've encountered the same problems trying to get into the traffic website to check who was driving our car for a speeding fine.  Finally had to just quess if it I was driving or my husband.

I agree with Tenerifediver about the autonomo payments.  Everyone is talking about La Crisis, so surely the govenment should be making it easier for people (Spanish or British) to start up small businesses.  My husband and I moved to Spain nearly two years ago when he got early retirement, so we're living on his pension, still have a year to go before I get mine and 6 years before either of us get the UK state pension.  We'd love to give some English classes, just to give us an extra couple of hundred euros a months, but as a local gestor informed us that the autonomo payment would be 250 euros, irrespective of how much, if anything, we were earning, it makes it impossible.  The main problem is the payment, the other is that we actually want to do things legally!!!

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12 Jun 2010 12:25 AM:

Hi,

I've had a problem with telephone scam too, but with orange-es.  A few months ago I had a text message on my spanish mobile telling me  I owed money, followed by another text telling me I could use my credit card to pay and a telephone number to call.  This was repeated a couple of times.  As it's a pay as you go phone I didn't see how I could owe money bt went into the local orange shop where I was told this was a scam.  I'm still getting these text messages.

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