How long before you cannot claim NHS help ??
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Not sure if this is in the right section or not but here goes....
If say you give up work (volutary redundency)and don't work for a while, are you still able to go to the doctor/dentist and claim NHS help ? If you didn't work for another 10 years and paid no tax/NI at all could you still be granted free healthcare ?
There must be some sort of time limit ? Or what happens if you leave the country for a while and then come back ?
If say you give up work (volutary redundency)and don't work for a while, are you still able to go to the doctor/dentist and claim NHS help ? If you didn't work for another 10 years and paid no tax/NI at all could you still be granted free healthcare ?
There must be some sort of time limit ? Or what happens if you leave the country for a while and then come back ?
SimonV8ster said:
Not sure if this is in the right section or not but here goes....
If say you give up work (volutary redundency)and don't work for a while, are you still able to go to the doctor/dentist and claim NHS help ? If you didn't work for another 10 years and paid no tax/NI at all could you still be granted free healthcare ?
There must be some sort of time limit ? Or what happens if you leave the country for a while and then come back ?
NHS treatment is linked to being ordinarily resident in the UK, not to nationality or to making tax / NI contributions. Live abroad for more than three months and you potentially lose free treatment until you return to become ordinarily resident again.If say you give up work (volutary redundency)and don't work for a while, are you still able to go to the doctor/dentist and claim NHS help ? If you didn't work for another 10 years and paid no tax/NI at all could you still be granted free healthcare ?
There must be some sort of time limit ? Or what happens if you leave the country for a while and then come back ?
Visiting citizens of EEA countries can get an EHIC which gets them free treatment (just as we can to get our treatment covered in other EEA countries).
SimonV8ster said:
But how would you prove you ordinarily resident ?
Through the facts.Edited by SimonV8ster on Wednesday 5th May 16:19
There are quite a few regulations which are dependent on residency status - including certain tax laws. Therefore, the legal system has ways and means of ascertaining whether a person is resident or ordinarilly resident in the UK.
Edited by Eric Mc on Wednesday 5th May 17:58
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