If you are employed then your director should provide you with the necessary forms filled in which you then take to the local social security registration centre. These are then stamped and you then proceed to the local Health Centre, fill in more forms, take them back to the social security and eventually your medical card is sent to you.
If you are autonomo you need to do the same except you use your own papers from Hacienda to take to the social security office. I hope that helps!
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Madsue has it there though if I may add; some Health Centers can be hopeless as I fear in your case. You need to go to El Registro de la Segri etc. etc. which is on C/Jacometrazo near Santo Domingo, you'll need residency and contract as well as (just in case) your last nomina, you might also need your Apadronamiento which you get from your local town hall, just to prove you live where you say. You have to bring your renting contract and I suppose photocopies of all these. I did this all years ago and my memory is a bit sketchy. Once the S.S. give you the card you then go back to your health center and they will take the details and send the plastic swipe card so beloved of the system, which also, by the way, names your designated doctor. As Madsue says your employer should have given you a form to sign and your nomina should have your S.S. No. on it. Am I making sense?
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I just recently got on my husband�s alta for social security. I was given a paperin the social security office, which I was told that will work just like a card, however the card can be picked up at my local ambulatatio by presenting the paper the social security office gave me. All we needed to bring was both of our passports, my husband�s social security card and the libro de familia. Of course this may different if you have a different situation. We went to an office on c/ don ramon de la cruz off of the plaza de Manuel Beccera, however I also saw a social security office on c/ Juan Bravo (metro Diego de leon) which makes me think that there are various depending on where you live. However you could ask in one of these offices.
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