If you don't have a good paying job and good health then it can be difficult here. The positives are housing is cheap and you can usually have land with it to grow vegetables. Petrol and cars are cheap, but then other travel can be hard as no rail. Depending on where you live weather can be better than UK. If you want to work there is always work to be had. USA is not very good if you are elderly and eldery with no savings can be verydifficult as the social net is not very strong and you are on your own. If you are sick and have little money then you can use everything, thank god for Obama Care, although American health care even with insurance is not as good s people think. You need to be careful to monitor everything, as doctors do not talk to each other. Last month I had to have 3 different blood teasts because the 3 doctors I see do not talk. Now I know when one wants a test to ask the others if they need a spsecific test also so I am not being stuck x3 again. It may be time for you to go home. Good luck.

How have we managed all these years without your profound insight? This stuff is great, it should be made into a sticky, or put in the Wikis.

Home Depo I hear have the best employee benefit program

Free parking, I hear, though not in the shade.

Welcome to Georgia!!!

benefits & parking

Luckily they post their benefits online to the public, so easy to check.

Part-Time associates hourly

https://secure.livethehealthyorangel...PT-Book_v1.pdf


Full-time both salaried and hourly

https://secure.livethehealthyorangel...SFT-book_4.pdf

I think he was making a reference to the Home Depot employee in Atlanta who left his toddler in the car in the home depot corporate office parking lot and the kid died. May or may not have been intentional on the parents part.

90 days of employment required until you get medical coverage?!

WTF do you do in the interim? ACA? How practical is that for just 3 months? Or COBRA? Doesn't seem very cost effective either. Ideas?

I always just went without for the 90 days and hoped nothing bad happened.

90 days is a norm at a lot of companies, its the probationary period so they don't want to start benefits and extra's until they see if your even going to stay with the company.

I actually can't think of any company I've worked for that started benefits from day one, all had a 90 day wait if they offered benefits.

Heck even here in Canada when you first move here (except for Alberta and maybe Quebec) the government even has a 90 waiting period before health benefits kick in for the universal health coverage.

Get sick or injured in that time frame, your pay for it if your not carrying temporary private insurance.

Same in England with employers (the 90 day probation period for benefits) but it's obviously a little different there given you have the NHS in case anything occurs.

What would you do if you don't want to go without coverage for 90 days? Is there a gap insurance you could buy outside of COBRA?

The 90 day probationary period with no health benefits must be just in the commercial sector. As far as I know, in education and government sectors health insurance always starts day one, or coordinated with the end of your previous coverage, end of month or whatever.

Could be, never worked for a government entity, only private employers and its been the norm at all of the one's I have worked for.

I had to wait 90 days too. Not that I'm bothered as I'm covered on the wife's insurance which is far better.

I think it depends.

Where MIL teaches, it's now after 90 days for new teachers, count starting from the first day of school year for those teachers hired over the summer holidays like the head and nurse...and here in town, it's 90 days for the librarian job and a couple other jobs in the town hall.