Form S1

[martyn94]

I am coming up to 65, and have found out (I hope) how to apply. But it is not clear whether you can apply in advance, or have to wait until the date (unlike the NIRP, where it is clear that you can apply 4 months in advance). Given the likely delays at the French end, I'd like to waste no time. Any experience?

[russell]

Try calling the DHSS in Newcastle - Non-resident Individuals Helpline 0151 472 6196. I've found them to be surprisingly helpful.

Russell.

[martyn94]

I did, and hanged around on hold. But it was Monday morning. I'll try again.

[Smiley G]

Martyn, You'll automatically receive a form S1 once DWP have written to you confirming that "We have decided to award you a pension of £xxx per week"
You do of course have to apply to receive your pension in the first place and a call to one of the excellent people in Newcastle should include the request for an S1 to be sent.
When you receive it, you will need to take it to CPAM in Perpignan to have your status changed. Our mutuelle, Exclusive Healthcare (Ascore Gestion) asked us for copies as well.

[Kate]

Oooo, hate reading all this - it reminds me that I should be thinking about it myself. If (hypothetically) I was 60, should I now be ringing Newcastle or am I still too young?

[Sue]

Apply here for a statement. I think your retirement age will be between 60 and 65. Unlike some of us who got it dead on 60

https://www.gov.uk/calculate-state-pension

[Helen]

Hate to break the news to you Kate - me being just that little bit older than your hypothetical age!! - but retirement age for us is now 66.

There's been a growing amount of pressure on the government with claims that it is being unfair to women born in the early and mid 50's because of the speed at which the retirement age has gone up.

More here :

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/j ... ary-debate

[Allan]

Martyn, You'll automatically receive a form S1 once DWP have written to you confirming that "We have decided to award you a pension of £xxx per week"
You do of course have to apply to receive your pension in the first place and a call to one of the excellent people in Newcastle should include the request for an S1 to be sent.
When you receive it, you will need to take it to CPAM in Perpignan to have your status changed. Our mutuelle, Exclusive Healthcare (Ascore Gestion) asked us for copies as well.

Why would Martyn need to have his status changed if he is already in the French Heath system?

Is it obligatory? Or beneficial?

[Sue]

Sorry Kate, Helen is so right 66 it is. Personally I think it stinks along with the removal of WFA.

[Smiley G]

Martyn, You'll automatically receive a form S1 once DWP have written to you confirming that "We have decided to award you a pension of £xxx per week"
You do of course have to apply to receive your pension in the first place and a call to one of the excellent people in Newcastle should include the request for an S1 to be sent.
When you receive it, you will need to take it to CPAM in Perpignan to have your status changed. Our mutuelle, Exclusive Healthcare (Ascore Gestion) asked us for copies as well.

Why would Martyn need to have his status changed if he is already in the French Heath system?

Is it obligatory? Or beneficial?

Allan, Yes if you want to join the system. The French authorities have to register the S1 and use it to send back to the U.K. We've done it twice and know the system. When you get your S1 from the Pension Centre you sign your bit and submit it to CPAM who then do their bit with it and forward it elsewhere for onward transmission back to the U.K.
We found that CPAM like to renew their dossier on you so it's best to take with you all your normal supporting paperwork- Legal Certs. EDF bill etc.
Martyn IS in the system but his membership changes* once the S1 is registered.
* The French get reimbursed by the U.K.

[Allan]

Martyn, You'll automatically receive a form S1 once DWP have written to you confirming that "We have decided to award you a pension of £xxx per week"
You do of course have to apply to receive your pension in the first place and a call to one of the excellent people in Newcastle should include the request for an S1 to be sent.
When you receive it, you will need to take it to CPAM in Perpignan to have your status changed. Our mutuelle, Exclusive Healthcare (Ascore Gestion) asked us for copies as well.

Why would Martyn need to have his status changed if he is already in the French Heath system?

Is it obligatory? Or beneficial?

Allan, Yes if you want to join the system. The French authorities have to register the S1 and use it to send back to the U.K. We've done it twice and know the system. When you get your S1 from the Pension Centre you sign your bit and submit it to CPAM who then do their bit with it and forward it elsewhere for onward transmission back to the U.K.
We found that CPAM like to renew their dossier on you so it's best to take with you all your normal supporting paperwork- Legal Certs. EDF bill etc.
Martyn IS in the system but his membership changes* once the S1 is registered.
* The French get reimbursed by the U.K.

My question was, if you are in the system already why does anything have to be changed?

Is there a benefit or obligation to have the cost passed back to the UK?

In my case it is the opposite way around, I got a Carte Vitale using an S1 but I pay taxes and Social Charges in France, so what status do I have.

My thinking behind the question is that if there was a Brexit having a Carte Vitale in my own right might be beneficial.

I dont fully understand by what you mean by 'status', I wasn't aware there were multiple statuses.

[Smiley G]

By status, I mean;
1 A non S1 holder becomes a State pensioner and receives an S1.
2 S1 issued to a state pensioner and possibly their beneficiary/beneficiaries.
3 The beneficiary becomes an S1 holder in their own right.
Perhaps this list is not complete but gives examples of how status changes.

[Sue]

We had CVs, my hubby piggy backs mine as I am the oldest, for 3+ years before I reached retirement age. I had to take my S1 to CPAM once I had received it.

[Smiley G]

We had CVs, my hubby piggy backs mine as I am the oldest, for 3+ years before I reached retirement age. I had to take my S1 to CPAM once I had received it.

We also had initial CVs which, after the Sarkozy law, were only valid for 2 years. We exited the system in 2010 and re-entered it in 2011 following the EU ruling that the French Government had been wrong in denying healthcare to non-French EU citizens.
My wife got her " State Pension retirement" S1 first and I became her beneficiary. I then got my " SP retirement" S1, so my CV was in my own right.
We found the staff at CPAM in Perpignan extremely helpful and as long as you do things their way (the right way) it becomes very straightforward.
A guide is attached;
http://www.french-property.com/guides/f ... etirement/

[JIB729]

I have just completed the majority of the paperwork asked for by CPAM and now they have come back asking for the S1 form. I am 62 and still working (overseas) The S1 form seems to be for a stateless person born before 1983 and nothing to do with Health. Can anyone tell me, Do I have the correct form? Cheers John

[Sue]

You will not be given a form S1 by the DWP until you reach UK retirement age and in receipt of a state pension. If and when Brexit happens it is highly unlikely you will ever get one.

[tia]

I have just completed the majority of the paperwork asked for by CPAM and now they have come back asking for the S1 form. I am 62 and still working (overseas) The S1 form seems to be for a stateless person born before 1983 and nothing to do with Health. Can anyone tell me, Do I have the correct form? Cheers John

How can you be stateless? You must be a declared resident in France to beable to get a CV . If you declare your taxes here and have household bills proving you live here then normally you should be entitled to healthcare. If you earn over a certain amount then you may be obliged to pay for your healthcare through social charges which are usually calculated when you do your taxes. Sounds simple but as with all French administration it can take a few months and a load of paperwork to sort out.

[Allan]

http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/wo ... dex_en.htm

[martyn94]

I have just completed the majority of the paperwork asked for by CPAM and now they have come back asking for the S1 form. I am 62 and still working (overseas) The S1 form seems to be for a stateless person born before 1983 and nothing to do with Health. Can anyone tell me, Do I have the correct form? Cheers John

I think that every bureaucracy in the world must have a form called "S1". It's a question of scratching around on google until you find the one that's relevant to you. At first blush, you are not eligible for one from the U.K. until you hit 65, and possibly not even then, depending on how long you worked there. As Sue has said.

[martyn94]

You will not be given a form S1 by the DWP until you reach UK retirement age and in receipt of a state pension. If and when Brexit happens it is highly unlikely you will ever get one.

Oh come on. The British lion is going to roar again, bigly, and the dagoes will be falling over themselves to cut us a great deal. But seriously, I'm not too pessimistic about the future of health coverage: an awful lot of us are Tory voters, and we will soon be able to vote in the U.K. for the rest of our lives.

[jamesjohn]

Hate to break the news to you Kate - me being just that little bit older than your hypothetical age!! - but retirement age for us is now 66.

There's been a growing amount of pressure on the government with claims that it is being unfair to women born in the early and mid 50's because of the speed at which the retirement age has gone up.