Hi, as a lucky girl with a small private income, hubby (38) & I (33) are moving to Spain from England in July 2005.

However, we really could do with some advice that I can't seem to find anywhere. Our income is sufficient to cover all of our basic needs (food, bills, etc) and so we will choose to work as and when a suitable job comes up.

In the meantime we understand that we are not eligible for Social Security Healthcare as we are neither pensioners not contributing to the economy.

Sanitas is quoting e200 a month for us - is there any other way?

You need to check on that with an specialist, there are posibilities, if you are going to do non permanents jobs,...you can declare yourself as an "autonomo" to the social security system, which includes paying a fee much smaller to sanitas.

For private health care sanitas is good, or asisa, or cajasalud. You need to verify if the company has a developed network in the area you are going to be living in. The number sounds a bit high to me, probably you need to have qoutas calculated locally once you are here.

Hi there... unless Nativo knows something I don´t know, being autónomo means paying social security nearly 230€ a month. Those are my payments.

On the other hand, I also have private health insurance with Adeslas which runs me approximately 60€ a month paying on a quarterly basis.

Good luck!

I think he means a smaller fee than Sanitas.