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Retiring abroad with savings
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seven-day-weekend wrote: »If you are of State Retirement age you can get an E121 form from the DWP in the UK which covers you for free healthcare.
OP said they weren't of State Retirement age and so the new rules in France will apply - they are explained here.0 -
All of the conferences I have been to recently aimed at professionals in the expat marketplace have suggested that Spain is also a challenging place to obtain healthcare these days. We can certainly expect the UK to become more challenging considering both the French attitude and the cost to the UK Treasury of the current "soft touch" NHS.
The following stories illuminate a little more...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2007/09/18/healthcare-for-early-retirer.xml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2007/10/02/frenchhealth.xml0
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