Life Insurance in Portugal : everything you need to know Planning to better guarantee the future of your loved ones means protecting yourself against a disability, for example, that may affect your daily life as well as your loved ones. It also means ensuring the mortgage on your home is paid in...
Home Insurance: Policies through your bank You’ve just signed a mortgage with your new Portuguese bank and your banking advisor suggests you also take out home insurance at the same time to take advantage of a great interest rate... Is it a good or bad idea? It’s sure an easy way to...
Why take out Travel Insurance? Traveling is about having adventures... But, sometimes there are troubles too: flight cancellations and delays, lost luggage, a stolen passport, health issues... Whether on business or traveling for pleasure, a trip abroad can become a nightmare with major unexpected costs. Travel insurance is all about taking off...
Health Insurance in Portugal: How It Works Beyond the tax benefits for pensioners, Portugal is attracting more and more European workers who are coming to work, develop a business and enjoy an excellent quality of life and some of the best sun in Europe. Some 500,000 French workers have chosen this...
Healthcare in Portugal Pursuant to European provisions, English expatriates residing in Portugal shall be exclusively assigned to the Portuguese social security system and will, therefore, lose status as insured under the English system. Two healthcare systems co-exist in Portugal: the public healthcare system Serviço Nacional de Saúde (SNS), for the employed, pensioners and...
How does the private healthcare system work in Portugal? Just like in Spain and Great Britain, there are 2 healthcare systems that co-exist in Portugal: the public and the private healthcare systems. Thanks to European cooperation agreements, English expatriates may benefit from the Portuguese public healthcare system based on universal and...
What exactly is a brokerage firm? Some ideas are hard to let go of... in insurance too! Many still believe “a broker obviously gets a commission as payment... so, I hardly see the point as it will be more expensive; just go directly to the insurance company! And their offer will obviously...
