medical coverage
Feb 2nd 2010, 8:26 am
#31
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Feb 2nd 2010, 1:49 pm
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Re: medical coverage
) then we would NOT be entitled!That is, EITHER the man has to be 65 or the wife 60 for them to be entitled.
Feb 2nd 2010, 2:06 pm
#33
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Re: medical coverage
QUOTE FROM UKINSPAIN WEB PAGE:_ If you get a UK State Pension or Long Term Incapacity Benefit and you decide to move to Spain permanently, ask for your E121 from the International Pension Centre (IPC) in Newcastle.
Once registered with the Spanish authorities, the E121 gives you and your dependants the same medical cover in Spain as a Spanish national under the Spanish state-run health scheme. This cover may not be the same as you received on the NHS in the UK so you may have to pay for some treatments or services.:
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Feb 2nd 2010, 2:28 pm
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Re: medical coverage
Unless one was on invalidity benefit or maybe similar. That was my case, just that the ages were sightly different from you hypothetical. I was covered from 48 yrs old.
QUOTE FROM UKINSPAIN WEB PAGE:_ If you get a UK State Pension or Long Term Incapacity Benefit and you decide to move to Spain permanently, ask for your E121 from the International Pension Centre (IPC) in Newcastle.
Once registered with the Spanish authorities, the E121 gives you and your dependants the same medical cover in Spain as a Spanish national under the Spanish state-run health scheme. This cover may not be the same as you received on the NHS in the UK so you may have to pay for some treatments or services.:
QUOTE FROM UKINSPAIN WEB PAGE:_ If you get a UK State Pension or Long Term Incapacity Benefit and you decide to move to Spain permanently, ask for your E121 from the International Pension Centre (IPC) in Newcastle.
Once registered with the Spanish authorities, the E121 gives you and your dependants the same medical cover in Spain as a Spanish national under the Spanish state-run health scheme. This cover may not be the same as you received on the NHS in the UK so you may have to pay for some treatments or services.:
I have also taken two people at different times into the emergency department and they were seen immediately.
Feb 2nd 2010, 8:52 pm
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Re: medical coverage
Well snikpoh if anyone found themselves in that position they would have my commiserations and congratulations.......Mike
Feb 4th 2010, 1:11 pm
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Re: medical coverage
in 1988, when I was 48, I was on Invalidity benefit, I got an E121 and was accepted in the Spanish Health System.
AS for paying. The UK pay somewhere in the region of 4,000 € a `year for each UK national and for each of their dependants, to the Spanish System. That includes dependants who are under retirement age and from outside the EU.
There is some `problem' at the moment with what some Spanish are calling 'Health Tourists' who are allegedly coming to Spain to get treatment, operations etc on their 'E111's.'
The 'problem' is that the countries from where people entitled to treatment under the reciprocal agreements are Billed by the health authority concerned for treatment, operations etc. The charge is paid by the patient's home country, less any charges Spanish people have incurred in that country, but the money is sent to central government in Madrid and not the health authority concerned. Thus for example Andalucia looses out.
In passing, a friend of mine has just received a letter from Newcastle saying that in future his EHC (E 111) will be issued by UK. This is the new system which is coming into force around July this year, we all get the card from our home country not from where we reside.
AS for paying. The UK pay somewhere in the region of 4,000 € a `year for each UK national and for each of their dependants, to the Spanish System. That includes dependants who are under retirement age and from outside the EU.
There is some `problem' at the moment with what some Spanish are calling 'Health Tourists' who are allegedly coming to Spain to get treatment, operations etc on their 'E111's.'
The 'problem' is that the countries from where people entitled to treatment under the reciprocal agreements are Billed by the health authority concerned for treatment, operations etc. The charge is paid by the patient's home country, less any charges Spanish people have incurred in that country, but the money is sent to central government in Madrid and not the health authority concerned. Thus for example Andalucia looses out.
In passing, a friend of mine has just received a letter from Newcastle saying that in future his EHC (E 111) will be issued by UK. This is the new system which is coming into force around July this year, we all get the card from our home country not from where we reside.
My husband has just had a form to fill in about this, came through the post. he has filled it in and sent it back. The letter with it said they will send the cards out in April and they will be valid from May 1st.
