New Bank of Portugal accounts show rising home values drove household net wealth up by 480 billion euros between 2010 and 2025. The top 10 percent held 58.9 percent of it in 2025, and the poorer half 5.9 percent.
The Health Regulation Authority received 40,895 complaints in the first half of 2026, 5.4 percent fewer, and 7.9 percent more compliments. Emergency waits led in the SNS, unquoted costs in private hospitals. How and where to complain.
The 2026 budget added bookshops, theatre, music, dance, venues, libraries, museums and monuments to the IRS invoice deduction. It is worth 15 percent of the VAT, within a 250 euro household cap, and only if the invoice carries your NIF.
The GNR has recorded 1,657 crimes in the school environment this year, 72 linked to bullying and six to cyberbullying. Bullying is not a crime in its own right in Portugal. Here is what the GNR and the Ministry of Education tell parents to do.
A study for the private providers' federation finds the SNS has no method for updating the prices it pays contracted labs and clinics for about one billion euros a year of tests. Seven areas have had no change since 2014. For patients, these tests carry no user charge.
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Claims against doctors are rising and awards are growing, Público reports, with private-practice doctors the most exposed. Here is what the patients' rights law says about consent and compensation, and how to complain or seek mediation through the health regulator.
