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sakany

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My Spanish partner and his healthcare
« on: Dec 20, 2019, 11:38:13 AM »
My Spanish partner and I are planning to move to Spain next year.  We are both UK pensioners and will want to claim our pensions from Spain including S1 healthcare.  Does anyone foresee any problems, particular given that my partner is Spanish?  He is definitely not eligible for Spanish healthcare by virtue of being Spanish so our information is that the right to healthcare comes along with the pension, having paid national insurance contributions in the UK.

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Re: My Spanish partner and his healthcare
« Reply #1 on: Dec 20, 2019, 12:46:23 PM »
  Hi Sakany..This is a chat site, not an advise site. Our members are a disparate bunch and can often help, and often do but a quick hello might be nice first.
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Re: My Spanish partner and his healthcare
« Reply #2 on: Dec 20, 2019, 02:08:21 PM »
Hi Sakany.  Sorry, I can't help.  I'd imagine few of our members (although perhaps one or two) are familiar with the Spanish pension and healthcare provisions.  Perhaps a Spanish forum might be useful?
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Re: My Spanish partner and his healthcare
« Reply #3 on: Dec 20, 2019, 05:55:54 PM »
He is definitely not eligible for Spanish healthcare by virtue of being Spanish

Why would being Spanish make him not eligible for having Spanish healthcare  ???
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Re: My Spanish partner and his healthcare
« Reply #4 on: Dec 20, 2019, 06:03:55 PM »
Hi Sakany,


We are still in the EU for now, I thought we had reciprocal arrangements for that kind of thing.





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Re: My Spanish partner and his healthcare
« Reply #5 on: Dec 20, 2019, 07:27:47 PM »
Well, I'm a British citizen (for now at least) and have been paying Pension contributions for yonks, but will also be eligible for
a Bulgarian pension when I retire. Now I do not understand what the problem is.

Prior to Britain joining the EEC there were plenty of British pensioners staying in Spain and drawing British pensions,
as they were also in Cyprus.

If I retire to Britain I should get my Bulgarian pension (probably get it paid into a Bulgarian bank and then transferred),
and if I choose to stay in Bulgaria there is no earthly reason why I should not get my British pension.

The only thing that I do know about is that if you are eligible for a British pension it will remain the same as when you start drawing it outwith Britain
rather than be index-linked.

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Re: My Spanish partner and his healthcare
« Reply #6 on: Dec 20, 2019, 08:44:06 PM »
Why would being Spanish make him not eligible for having Spanish healthcare  ???
He meant it the other way about. As an ex-pat Spaniard he was not eligible for healthcare.

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Re: My Spanish partner and his healthcare
« Reply #7 on: Dec 20, 2019, 09:36:12 PM »
So it's only the UK that gives the world and his wife all the benefits?

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Re: My Spanish partner and his healthcare
« Reply #8 on: Dec 20, 2019, 09:38:57 PM »
So it's only the UK that gives the world and his wife all the benefits?

Yes.
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Re: My Spanish partner and his healthcare
« Reply #9 on: Dec 20, 2019, 09:41:27 PM »
No wonder we've got a national debt of 1.8 trillion.

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Re: My Spanish partner and his healthcare
« Reply #10 on: Dec 20, 2019, 09:52:55 PM »
No wonder we've got a national debt of 1.8 trillion.

There was a case where a pregnant Nigerian woman was refused treatment in the USA so instead of taking a direct flight from the USA to Nigeria, she deliberately took a flight where she had to change at Heathrow & as soon as she got to Heathrow she demanded to be taken to hospital.

So if you know any Brit who can't get the lifesaving medication that they need, show them this article which will explain why.

https://dailym.ai/2tFnMdd
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Re: My Spanish partner and his healthcare
« Reply #11 on: Dec 20, 2019, 10:15:57 PM »




Diasi,


I remember that case.  She shouldn't have been allowed to travel when she was ready to drop.  This country has to be truly crazy not to insist on health checks for any would be immigrant before they set foot in the UK.  We have many foreign people being treated for such things as HIV.  And as you say,  British people are denied expensive cancer drugs while we treat foreigners. Our NHS should be for British Citizens only.

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Re: My Spanish partner and his healthcare
« Reply #12 on: Dec 21, 2019, 10:14:07 AM »
"Our NHS should be for British Citizens only."

Over-simplistic.

Our NHS should be for anyone working and contributing to society in Britain and
those receiving a British pension and their dependents.

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Re: My Spanish partner and his healthcare
« Reply #13 on: Dec 21, 2019, 10:15:50 AM »
I'd agree with that Richmond.
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Re: My Spanish partner and his healthcare
« Reply #14 on: Dec 21, 2019, 11:32:33 AM »
No wonder we've got a national debt of 1.8 trillion.

We shouldn't be surprised when the government gaily spends more than it collects year after year. I think Charles Dickens wrote about it 100 years ago.

The books still don't balance but the government is still throwing it around on things nobody has asked for and neither want nor need.