# WaypointSur

> Plain‑English guidance to land, settle, and thrive on Spain’s Costa del Sol—homes, schools, healthcare, visas, taxes, work, and daily life.

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## Posts
- [Spain's New Digital Time-Clock Law Does Not Exist Yet. The One From 2019 Does.](https://waypointsur.com/p/spain-s-new-digital-time-clock-law-does-not-exist-yet-the-one-from-2019-does): The €10,000 fine in that supplier email comes from a bill Congress rejected.
- [Your Cheaper Health Insurance Quote Restarts a Clock You Already Ran Down](https://waypointsur.com/p/your-cheaper-health-insurance-quote-restarts-a-clock-you-already-ran-down): What you served and what was accepted stays behind unless the new schedule says otherwise.
- [Your Costa del Sol Property Tax Deadline Is 16 September. Your Direct Debit Was Due in August.](https://waypointsur.com/p/your-costa-del-sol-property-tax-deadline-is-16-september-your-direct-debit-was-due-in-august): Marbella and Estepona close the 16th; Málaga, Mijas and Fuengirola run their own clocks.
- [If Your Autumn Holds a Renewal, a Visa or a Contract, We Spent the Summer on It](https://waypointsur.com/p/if-your-autumn-holds-a-renewal-a-visa-or-a-contract-we-spent-the-summer-on-it): The audit is over, most of it held, and the tools it produced are nearly ready.
- [Your Health Policy Can Be Active and Still Not Cover a Hospital Bed](https://waypointsur.com/p/your-health-policy-can-be-active-and-still-not-cover-a-hospital-bed): The date that decides it is not the one on your bill.
- [The Date You Signed Now Moves Your Costa del Sol Bill More Than Your Town Does](https://waypointsur.com/p/the-date-you-signed-now-moves-your-costa-del-sol-bill-more-than-your-town-does): Mortgage, insurance, electricity: the dates that move your bill this September.
- [We Printed Four Autónomo Payment Figures in February. All Four Need Correcting.](https://waypointsur.com/p/we-printed-four-aut-nomo-payment-figures-in-february-all-four-need-correcting): Four corrected figures, two likely MEI mistakes, and what you can change by 31 October.
- [Still on a UK, US or Canadian Licence? Two Things Just Changed.](https://waypointsur.com/p/still-on-a-uk-us-or-canadian-licence-two-things-just-changed): One starts 1 October. The other is us being more precise than we were in March.
- [Three Pieces of Good News Survived a Week of Checking. Nobody Was Selling Any of Them.](https://waypointsur.com/p/three-pieces-of-good-news-survived-a-week-of-checking-nobody-was-selling-any-of-them): A man suing Málaga town hall, a right from 1997, and a subscriber's book out Tuesday.
- [We Gave You the Power, the Water and the Alert Separately. Andalucía Had Them on One Page All Along.](https://waypointsur.com/p/power-water-alert-aug26-26): Ninety minutes to run it. Plus the 20% we printed on solar, which is really 10.
- [In June We Told You How to Vet a Gestor. We Never Told You How to Leave One.](https://waypointsur.com/p/in-june-we-told-you-how-to-vet-a-gestor-we-never-told-you-how-to-leave-one): Plus the fee range we had no business printing, and why 15 October beats the 20th.
- [The Rain Came Back. So Did the Fertiliser in Torre del Mar's Tap Water.](https://waypointsur.com/p/the-rain-came-back-so-did-the-fertiliser-in-torre-del-mar-s-tap-water): From 1 to 39 mg/L of nitrate in two years. Checking your own network takes a minute.
- [Andalucía Made Peace With Its Doctors. Your Waiting List Wasn't in the Room.](https://waypointsur.com/p/andaluc-a-made-peace-with-its-doctors-your-waiting-list-wasn-t-in-the-room): 94% of doctors say the overtime that clears the queue stops in October. Get your register date this week.
- [In April We Printed Five Pieces of Good News as a Bet. All Five Just Passed the Summer Audit.](https://waypointsur.com/p/in-april-we-printed-five-pieces-of-good-news-as-a-bet-all-five-just-passed-the-summer-audit): The second look, a new longer list, and Spain's first-ever early delivery on our tracker.
- [Every Health Centre in Andalucía Has a Free Interpreter. You Have to Know to Ask.](https://waypointsur.com/p/every-health-centre-in-andaluc-a-has-a-free-interpreter-you-have-to-know-to-ask): Our translation stack, re-tested: what held, what repriced, where machines stop counting.
- [Spain NLV Renewal: The Money Math and the Legal Gap You Need to Know](https://waypointsur.com/p/nlv-renewal-money-math-and-the-legal-gap): The income bar for your NLV renewal hasn't changed, but the 183 day rule behind it is under legal challenge and the EU is now tracking every crossing.
- [Your Residency Renewal Got Easier This Year. Booking It Got Brutal.](https://waypointsur.com/p/your-residency-renewal-got-easier-this-year-booking-it-got-brutal): Kinder rules, six-week queues. The two dates on your card to diary tonight.
- [We Predicted 2026 Would Force a Decision. Spain Made It True in a Way We Missed.](https://waypointsur.com/p/we-predicted-2026-would-force-a-decision-spain-made-it-true-in-a-way-we-missed): Our New Year forecast, re-scored in public: what held, what broke, and a €3 first step.
- [The Costa's Drought Ended Four Months Ago. Nobody Told You What That Means.](https://waypointsur.com/p/the-costa-s-drought-ended-four-months-ago-nobody-told-you-what-that-means): Reservoirs at 85%, restrictions gone since April, and a ledger of what got built.
- [In May, We Told You to Check Your Town's Water. We Sent You to the Wrong Number.](https://waypointsur.com/p/in-may-we-told-you-to-check-your-town-s-water-we-sent-you-to-the-wrong-number): Nitrate belongs to your pipe network, not your postcode. Most Costa taps read near zero.
- [In December, We Priced Your Free Cita in Hours. The Police Have Since Priced It in Euros.](https://waypointsur.com/p/in-december-we-priced-your-free-cita-in-hours-the-police-have-since-priced-it-in-euros): Five operations, €15 to €400 a slot, now counterfeits. Plus the numbers we got wrong.