Quote:
Originally Posted by Amelia Davies
What nationality are you, if you have left England to live in France, you will have completed paperwork in the UK so that you can get a carte vitel, a French social security card which you use to get automatic refunds from the French system. If you are a UK resident living here for a short period of time you can still get a social security card. If you need to claim back any monies already paid out, you can do so either here in France or through the UK system. You only lose your rights to UK health care if you have trasnfered your rights here to France.
If you are working, you automatically gain rights to French health care, even if you only work part time, you will be paying contributions for your health care. Are you a student from the UK?
|
Im a UK Expat living in Spain who researched the health system quite exstensively before coming here.
On leaving the UK I gained an E106 which entitled me to nearly two years free health care in Spain. As I dont work and I am not of retirement age I am then unable to get health cover in Spain, except for emergencies, and therefore have to get private cover until one of us reaches retirement age when we will get full cover under the Spanish system with an E121.
On all the forums I have been on I have been told the system is roughly the same in France. It is not legal to live in Spain for instance and claim health cover in the UK, it is a breach of the EU agreements. You forgo your health rights in the UK when you take Spanish residency which you must do by law now on arriving here with intent to live here.
I know of many people in France who are having to pay for health treatment now and have no way of claiming it back. The only way you can do it, afaik, is to not tell the UK authorities that you have moved and go back to the UK when you need treatment. I believe the French are tightening up now on any health care for the non retired, according to some links I saw recently.
Thats what I have been told by people living there anyway
