Every year we expect changes regarding Social Security Contributions and general procedures and this year is no exception. There have been many delays on this subject because a number of new measures were supposed to be introduced but it looks as though these may be delayed a few months so that Social Security Delegations can learn how to implement these new procedures, and another issue is as usual, the State Budget was not published on time and was only made available on the 14th January 2019.
As much as it pains me to write this story, it is still highly relevant because Standards and Poor’s rating service has downgraded Spain’s Canary Islands today from A+ to AA-, which only demonstrates Spain’s current financial struggle.
This is a massive blow to the region but the credit rater has also warned that the region could suffer further downgrades as it has been flagged with a “creditwatch negative status”. This basically warns of problematic public finances and high unemployment issues stemming from the year 2008 which has worsened over time. From data received in September of this year, unemployment stands at approximately 25% and is predicted to increase over the upcoming year.
