UK citizens who have lived in EU countries for over 15 years can now vote in UK general elections. That’s been the case for a year or more.
Does that also give us the right to ask our MP for help in sorting out a UK problem we might have?
For me, it might be that someone on SF can advise me what to do.
I have no EHIC card. I did have one until it expired in 2020. When I applied for a replacement card it was refused.
It turned out that someone or some algorithm had logged that I lived in Finland. I saw this in a post-brexit letter I received. Other friends who got the letter had ‘France’ where I had ‘Finland’. Ironically the letter was sent to my correct French address.
Several attempts over four years have not succeeded. UK’s only solution is to send me an S1 for me to register here, months later confirmed by France back to Newcastle.
I get completely, as always for me, CPAM cover. Nothing here has changed for me.
So you can see my anxiety if I upset the apple cart by going to register an S1 when the french system has me in it already (for 18 years).
I think your “health travel card” aka EHIC (EU) or GHIC (UK) is issued by the State in which your are resident and ordinarily receive healthcare, so I think you need a French one not a UK one?
It would then be usable in the UK if necessary for urgent care under the reciprocal agreement.
(Top-up travel insurance is of course advised as well).
No, it’s issued by the country who ends up paying for it, in this case the UK. The disadvantage being when you use it abroad the mutuelle will not “top up” the payments, and you have to pay the extra yourself.
I think the original post is a little bit confusing and could do with some clarity.
@lebeuil1 you mention an S1, are you currently receiving a UK state pension or other UK benefits? If so, you should request an S1 and then a new EHIC (or GHIC, I always forget which is which) from the UK.
If you don’t qualify for an S1 then France should issue a CEAM for you, which is the French equivalent of an EHIC.
What apple cart are you upsetting? If you are registered in the French Health system as a salaried person or a fully paid up AE, as someone with a French pension, as an inactif under pension age who pays CSM the you are entitled to a French CEAM card.
However if you are registered in French Health system as a beneficiary of someone with an S1, as a cross border worker, or any other permutation that means that the UK is your competent State then you get a UK issued EHIC or GHIC.
I had an S1 put into the french system and got registered here, with a Carte Vitale. No problems whatever.
Until brexit, then somehow the british system wrongly put me as living in Finland and de-registered my S1.
I noticed nothing for a couple of years, until I tried to renew my expired EHIC card. UK would not issue me with one because my S1 had been de-registered.
They were and still are, adamant that they cannot undo their error.
The only solution they offer is for me to re-present my S1.
There has been no change or interruption of my CPAM cover.
I am retired on UK state pension since 2010. I got my S1 in 2010, presented it to France and got into the french CPAM. I got an EHIC card from Newcastle. Renewed it a couple of times.
Then I received a letter telling me how Brexit would affect me. I think 2020.
You all got one.
Have a look at it.
It says ‘since you live in France, …’.
Mine said ‘since you live in Finland …’
That prompted the system to de-register my S1. And disqualified me from an EHIC card.
But I still enjoy health cover here, just as I have done since 2010.
Why do you need an MP to sort it out? Not sure there is anything to sort out.
You have been issued with a legitimate S1 so surely registering like thousands of others is the straightforward thing to do. You will then be confirmed as having the UK as your competant State. Which is correct from what you say.
I believe you can contact the MP for the last constituency in which you lived in the UK. But whether they will be willing or able to help is another matter.
Have you already asked CPAM if there would be any problem with entering a new S1 for you on their system? Obviously you don’t want to have a break in cover, so that would be something to check on too if you haven’t already done so.
I’m guessing that there may be some Brexity reason why the Newcastle folks can’t simply update the address on your original S1 and need to issue a new one?
But people must move from one EU country to another EU country all the time so it ought to be possible.
But help with what? I really can’t see that there is anything that needs help in terms of theUK?
The first thing to check is to look at your attestation des droits on Ameli. If it has you as code gestion 70, and a country code of I think 99 then that’s standard. It will also give dates.
If the UK is refusing to issue @lebeuil1 with an EHIC card because they think he lives in Finland, then something needs to happen about that! I can understand that he doesn’t really want to rock the boat with CPAM as he already has his S1 registered with them.
When I got my original letter from DWP or whoever at my address in France it stated that I live in Italy. I haven’t had a problem with the EHIC card though.
In answer to the original question , I agree with @ChrisMann that it seems to depend entirely on the particular MP as to whether they are prepared to help or not. The previous MP for my old town flatly refused but the current set seem more amenable. On the other hand, when I tried to get help for an extremely elderly friend from her MP in the UK town she lives in, the result were useless. I’m not sure this is helpful @lebeuil1 but it wouldn’t do any harm to ask them?
Yes.
Whoever is the sitting MP in your old constituency is still your MP.
Before the recent voting change it just meant that you could not vote, not that you didn’t have an MP.
