After much confusion over why my Carte Vitale stopped working (following transfer of my rights from being an ayant droit on my husbands security number to having rights of my own as an auto-entrepreneur), many phone calls and letters exchanged with RSI, a series of mugshots being hastily prepared at Super U...I finally have received my new Carte Vitale.
I am very glad to have it back (well a replacement of it) as the confusion every time I hit the pharmacy (which has been lots recently with colds, flu, viruses, sinusitis, dentistry, ophthalmology, nurse visits, blood tests...) had begun to make each trip out like groundhog day.
My social security number has stayed the same and the card looks identical (except for a positively awful mugshot of yours truly taken when ill) so I don't really understand why I had to have a new card. Why couldn't they just change something over in the background and 'Mise a Jour' my old card at the pharmacy? Goodness knows it confused every single health professional who insisted on giving my little green card a try at least twice, shaking their head and finally resorting to filling out the feuille de soins which are now stacked up on my desk waiting for me to have the energy to do something with them.
I also had to fill out the medecin traitant forms again as these weren't automatically transferred either which my Dr was also confused about as she knew I'd already done them only a couple of years before.
But I have learnt that persistence pays off and eventually if you call enough times you do get your little green card in the end...I almost want to be ill again so I can go out and use it...NOT!
Just seen this & I wish I could get my first CV. Am on a state pension & still waiting for the magic green card since applying in January 2013. If it ever arrives I’m going to frame it!!!
Yes not looking forward to end of year when I should go from RSI/RAM to CPAM. The lady at CPAM said they sometimes kill the chip once you end your enterprise.
When we say 'Can France get any more messed up?' France replies 'Challenge accepted!'
I too am collecting numerous little brown slips as after having a CV for too many years to mention, both children automatically added when they were born here in France no worries. However a simple change from CPAM to RSI worked well enough but they forgot to add my children. Am now starting all over again grr!
onto the next one Brian...whilst on my sick bed last week I had a visit from a chap from the Mairie regarding my letter (deposited 5 weeks ago) requesting an estimate and approval for connecting a new waste water drain for our house to the communal sewer. Not in any fit state to discuss I said I would go to the Mairie this week to discuss...I wonder what complications this will throw up...(literally as currently the old private communal drain passing through our garden - shared by 4 other houses is spilling its nasty content on the end of the garden!)
I also ran into a similar problem as Trisha. At my first visit to the CPAM office they told me I already had a Carte Vitale. It turned out there was another Terry Williams living in another village called Fabrèges which is only a few miles from my own Fabrèges. Fortunately he wasn't born in the same year as me and I already had a numéro de sécu dating back to 1962 when I first worked in France so we sorted the problem out there and then. Fortunately my namesake moved away very soon after or I suspect we would have had regular meetings to exchange mail!
That sounds a tricky one Trisha - it sounds like they have a duplicate Trisha Hurford who doesn't really exist but on their system does. I had this with my Taxe D'habitation...they tried to tell me that I must own multiple houses as I am paying TDH twice...in the end it was due to them having me on the system twice. Took me 3 years to sort that one, I just kept paying twice and getting it refunded at the end of the year!
Our original Carte Vitales took 2 years...looks like they have sped up a bit since 2010...
Next month I will have persevered for a year, am an still awaiting a result. According to Cpam there is a person with the same name and birthdate living in Orne so they decided my application for a card ,in my own right, was false, cancelled my card and did nothing till I queried it.The English helpline have looked into it but still nothing.If/when I get my new card I'm booking the entire afternoon at my GPs to fill him in on a year of minor illness.