15 Sep 2012 6:48 PM:

Thanks Johnzx,

so sorry I upset you for using a wrong term. I didn't know. I also don't know whether we are on the register you 'presume' we are on. We may well be of course but as I do not know the ins and outs of residency status I can't comment. The question I posed was ignored in your response. Does anyone have or do you have any light to throw on the subject?

Thread: 2 major questions resulting from changes in Residency requirements and Healthcare

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15 Sep 2012 6:20 PM:

Hi, I have a question regarding this new issuance/non issuance by Spain.

My wife and I moved to Mallorca to live permanently on February 20th 2012. We have residencia. We have S1 form which is only valid until January 2014. We are of working age but I have retired early taking a work's pension. We therefore do not receive a state pension yet from the UK. Mine becomes payable when I am 66, currently I am just short of my 58th birthday. Currently also, we do not as yet have private health care cover as we are covered until January 2014 with the S1. As we are permanently resident in Mallorca we therefore do not have anything but emergency cover in the UK. We knew we did not have cover here when we initially moved over except for the S1 conditions. When we heard about the 1st September occurrence we asked about it through a relocation company and they were told cards would be issued shortly. Since then the social security office has backtracked and we are now currently being denied the healthcare cover card with which we could register at a doctor here. So, it seems we are still denied healthcare (apart from emergency) in the UK (correctly) and we are denied healthcare here after January 2014 unless the Spanish Government do issue these cards from the social security that would allow us healthcare here being registered at a doctor's. My income is clearly below the huge amount that would prevent us from having a doctor here as a resident (the income was something like euro 100,000 a year). Can anyone tell me whether we should be granted this medical care card in Spain because if we were it would take a lot of worry off my mind as to paying for medical insurance in 2014? I know life's not fair (believe me, I know) but as we no longer have UK entitlement, to be told you will be getting Spanish entitlement and then to be told whoahhh, hold your horses, it seems we are still between the devil and the deep blue sea! Does anyone know whether this Spanish entitlement will come to fruition?

Brian

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19 Dec 2011 12:48 AM:

I used to be an FX interbank trader in the City and my take on will it be'stronger or weaker' is that it would be weaker with the market looking for the next country to be forced out of the politically inspired should never have existed euro.

:)

Brian

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