Very old lady in need of funds....

xylophone

If

you are a Pensioner, (or on UK Incapacity Benefit/ESA) the UK will cover your healthcare in an EU country. You need form S1 from the DWP. This will cover you for healthcare in Germany on the same basis as a citizen of the country you live in..

The EHIC (European Health Insurance Card) covers you for healthcare emergencies OUTSIDE the country you live in.

Hope this helps.

Posts 10 and 15 refer but the OP is having difficulty in interpreting the guidance (post 17)- telephone call to OHT (post 18) should clarify?

Blue_Parrot

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

If you are a Pensioner, (or on UK Incapacity Benefit/ESA) the UK will cover your healthcare in an EU country. You need form S1 from the DWP. This will cover you for healthcare on the same basis as a citizen of the country you live in..

The EHIC (European Health Insurance Card) covers you for healthcare emergencies OUTSIDE the country you live in.

Hope this helps.

Your second paragraph makes some sense of the earlier confusion. Therefore there is to reason in apply for an EHIC for her.

Thanks.

Blue_Parrot

xylophone wrote: »

If

Posts 10 and 15 refer but the OP is having difficulty in interpreting the guidance (post 17)- telephone call to OHT (post 18) should clarify?

Telephone call will have to wait for several days due to a combination of working full time and being very busy otherwise here, and she's not down to her last few Euros yet.

Thank you.

Blue_Parrot

opinions4u wrote: »

While she still has her marbles I'd get the shares sold.

Makes things easier later on.

While I've snatched a few minutes to reply, I have to say that the reason I skipped over this post yesterday is that I found it flippant and not funny. Not every old person gets dementia, Alzheimer's. She's still got all her marbles at nearly 90. :undecided

jackyann

Would there be any point in contacting your local MEP? I imagine that they do casework in the same way as MPs and may have a very good understanding of how things like this work.
However, if you feel you can get good advice from the other places suggested here, you may not find it helpful.

Vortigern

opinions4u wrote: »

While she still has her marbles I'd get the shares sold.

Makes things easier later on.

Blue_Parrot wrote: »

While I've snatched a few minutes to reply, I have to say that the reason I skipped over this post yesterday is that I found it flippant and not funny. Not every old person gets dementia, Alzheimer's. She's still got all her marbles at nearly 90. :undecided

I see opinions4u's post as helpful, rather than flippant or funny. It simply makes the point that it's easier to sell shares while the shareholder is capable of signing the forms for herself.

MissMoneypenny

Blue_Parrot wrote: »

There is a possibility that she has a small German Govmt. pension, we will ask.

Has she has worked in Germany?

N1AK

Blue_Parrot wrote: »

I found it flippant and not funny. Not every old person gets dementia, Alzheimer's. She's still got all her marbles at nearly 90. :undecided

He made a valid point, just because he didn't take a sombre tone doesn't mean he was being flippant.

The person in question is living abroad completely out of her depth (no understanding of benefits she is entitled to or the fact she should never have had to pay for healthcare). She is hoping, irrationally, that £6k in assets is going to do anything more than slightly delay the inevitable. She may have her marbles but she isn't thinking rationally.

If her day to day costs exceed her income then she will only be able to continue to live as she currently is if someone else funds it.

Onawingandaprayer

N1AK wrote: »

marbles

Too right. My dad at 89 (an ex bank manager too) was very with it financially. But I'm afraid within the next couple of years, till he passed away at 95, he lost the plot substantially. Even losing decimal points ie thought a Daily Telegraph was £125, not £1.25. We quickly (and discretely) took his cheque book away!

No-one knows what's around the corner - and probably just as well.

Blue_Parrot

Vortigern wrote: »

I see opinions4u's post as helpful, rather than flippant or funny. It simply makes the point that it's easier to sell shares while the shareholder is capable of signing the forms for herself.

Hi. She doesn't sign any forms now, due to violently shaking hand when a pen is put into it (since about 15 years ago) ..... Hence the Power of Attorney.