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The Bip&Go badges are not limited to a particular vehicle. From https://tinyurl.com/yx3aw2dy Can I use one badge for all the types of vehicle I own (car, car with caravan, motorbike, campervan…)? Yes – the Bip&Go electronic toll payment badge is not connected to one particular vehicle. It can therefore be used for the light vehicle (class 1, 2 and 5) of your choice. Trips are billed to the contract holder who is responsible for its use. To benefit from electronic toll payment in your different vehicles, you can order an extra holder or extra badge in one of our agencies or in your subscriber area. However, you must make sure you take the right electronic toll payment lane for your type of vehicle

I use a Bip&Go transponder https://www.bipandgo.com/en/ which also works in Italy, Portugal and Spain and in some car parks. It is a Liber-t toll tag device. You can either pay 16€ as an annual fee or 1.70€ for each month you use the device (0€ if you don't). You can get a Liber-t toll tag through a UK web site and using a UK bank account, but they charge more. Liber-t toll tag is part of SANEF who have an associate company running the Dartford Crossing concession. They have mentioned they hope to implement the tags there sometime in the future.

I got to that list through France Connect. As I understand it, France Connect is only a portal to access the various services without the need for a lot of specific accounts rather than a specific service itself. Couldn't try the Assurance Retraite number I gave and ask them about Info Retraite?

I'm not sure if it what you want, but this page https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vos-questions/centres-contact gives the contact numbers of many of the services. As an example, the Impôts Service entry states Depuis l'étranger : + 33 (0)8 10 46 76 87 (si votre opérateur autorise les appels vers des numéros spéciaux français) and Assurance retraite gives 39 60 (ou 09 71 10 39 60 depuis un mobile, une box ou l'étranger)

Are you sure? All I currently have in my DMP account are my Ameli statements. I suspect most doctors won't add any information automatically. I believe a lot of their systems aren't compatible so they'd need to re-enter the data, without payment or buy additional software? I could add my own information but would it be worthwhile? If the DMP doesn't show your complete medical record isn't there the possibility of errors in diagnosis, recommendations, prescriptions, etc.

I'd agree, but the problem is the shipping and receipt of the box. Getting the timing right can be a problem. Mine was delayed and I'd left France for a holiday. I'd arranged for the box to be delivered to a relais poste rather than to my address as I knew the delay was always a possibility and I didn't know the carrier (many do not have post box access). I received an e-mail notification and, as I'd left an authorisation with a neighbour, they could collect it when I told them it was available. Had it been addressed to my house it is possible it would not have been delivered and would have been returned to the sender.

Thank you all for the advice and comments. It does seem I'll have to declare the withdrawal as a one-off pension rather than a rente viagère. Using rente viagère does only seem correct if the whole sum was converted to a real annuity which was then paid in regular sums.

The glass is usually 4mm thick and double glazing spacers go from 6mm in 2mm increments. So the minimum thickness double glazing would 4+6+4 = 14mm. But that would have a very low performance. Double glazing today often has a 16mm spacer. A useful chart of performance https://tinyurl.com/t2yf3tv Don't forget the possible effect of the extra weight of the glass on the wood frame.

From this page for a rente viagère à titre onéreux it is a 70% abatement so only 30% would be taxed https://tinyurl.com/wpjm9el But is that how an AVC payment is declared?

Does anyone know how money taken out of an AVC should be declared? It is an ex-Equitable Life AVC and completely separate from my private pension fund. The one search result here doesn't give any useful information for my case. However, it does mention an AVC is strictly an annuity (although whether the tax office would agree is another question) in which case I think it would be taxed as a rente viagère? But I am only considering withdrawal of a part as a lump sum rather than a regular withdrawal so I'm not sure I could declare it as a rente viagère? As I understand it, being over 70 I would get a significant abatement on rente viagère income compared to pension income?

If you mean you are withdrawing euro from a sterling bank account with a bank card, that seems an expensive way of transferring from a sterling to euro account. You could find you will hit the daily/monthly withdrawal limit on your card. French residents doing something similar might also find the taxman starting to query where all those cash deposit funds are coming from. Why don't you use one of the many money transfer services (including transferwise/Monzo/Revolut/Starling accounts) where you should get a much better exchange rate and not pay any other charges?

You will need to get a "Certificate of Entitlement D737" from the DVLA for the expired licence. The telephone number is +44 300 790 6801 see the reply to the query here https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/letter_of_confirmation_of_my_uk or this short link http://t.ly/YZyMJ

I've now seen comments they are possibly using Brexit as an excuse. They didn't fully launch until the end of 2018 in the UK so after the referendum. They probably had less than 200,000 accounts in the UK - but how many were active? So possibly they weren't winning customers in comparison to Monzo/Revolut growth. I wonder whether the recently launched RBS/NatWest digital bank Bó https://wearebo.co.uk will survive?

I prefer Monzo to Revolut for general use and I also prefer their app. But I now only use Revolut for interbank transfers to France. Monzo were (and probably still are) using TransferWise as an intermediary so it was slower and more expensive as TransferWise charged a fee. As an aside, the German internet-only bank N26, which is also in France, is closing its UK operation due to Brexit as it only has an EU banking licence https://news.yahoo.com/n26-brexit-leaving-uk-quitting-144104525.html

suein56 On 8 December I wrote: The letter had an address and an e-mail for the conciliator, [email protected] I assume that is a standard format so you just need to change the department number. I'd suggest an e-mail to your conciliator. My department number was 88. Yours is 56 so you should try [email protected]

The shortcut http://t.ly/nwYPL does work.

I use the UK Monzo and Revolut for internet only banking. And Boursorama for internet banking in France. I use Revolut for currency transfers from UK to France (usually £500-1000 to top-up my French account for special purchases). The Revolut exchange for most currencies on weekdays (Mon-Fri) are at the instantaneous interbank exchange rate. The last couple of transfers I've done only took a day in total. A transfer from my Lloyds account to Revolut, conversion by Revolut into euro and then the transfer to Boursorama. For those living in France, I moved from Crédit Agricole a few years ago as I got fed up with their poor service and slow transfers. Boursorama is free if you keep a large enough balance and for a deposit 5000€ (in Livret A) you will get a gold Visa card.

On 1 Jan 2019 they changed the stamp charge zones. There is no longer a separate charge for Europe and for the Rest of the World. There is now only a mauve International stamp. I've not been able to find out whether old blue stamps (which have Europe on them) can be used for postage outside Europe! This short link t.ly/nwYPL gives the full 2020 postal pricing or the full link https://www.laposte.fr/medias/sys_master/apache_synchronised/h41/hbf/12070109937694/COCL-Part-M-tropole.pdf

The Prélèvement de Solidarité is no longer allocated to the social security budget but to a general fund. Therefore it is no longer a social charge so cannot be reimbursed to S1 holders. see https://www.french-property.com/guides/france/finance-taxation/taxation/social-security/social-welfare-levy

This has been the case since 2015. But the information is all rather buried although there was a lot about it at the time. I had problems a couple of years ago when I tried to get treatment at a UK surgery. The practice manager didn't know anything about the arrangements and I had to give her the links to the appropriate pages. I now make sure I have those links and my S1, and my UK-provided EHIC when I travel to the UK S1 holders can register with a UK doctor as well. The S2 is for planned treatment so presumably it was provided to you by a French doctor. It is not about equality of payments into a system, it is about equality of healthcare.

Pensioners holding and S1 have the same rights to NHS services as anyone who is ordinarily resident in England (I assume there are similar regulations for the other UK countries). The relevant information is in the DHSS document: Guidance on implementing the overseas visitor charging regulations 6.3 The following exemption categories may apply to those who are not ordinarily resident in the UK: • Regulation 13 – UK pensioners resident in the EEA: UK pensioners who are resident in another EEA member state are exempt from charge for all relevant services, including elective treatment, provided that they have registered an S1 document in that member state. See Chapter 9 for more about this exemption para 9.58 (page 81) of the DHSS document Guidance on implementing the overseas visitor charging regulations UK pensioners living in another EEA country In April 2015, there was a change in law which meant that all UK state pensioners who are living in the EEA or Switzerland and have registered an S1 form from the UK with the local authorities in their EEA country of residence are entitled to not be charged for relevant services, just like someone who is ordinarily resident in England. This rule also applies to any of their family members who also possess a UK-issued S1. However, they will need to pay any charges which also apply to UK residents, such as prescription and dental charges. Individuals who have registered a UK S1 in another EEA country should be asked to provide some evidence confirming this. If they present a UK-issued EHIC, their EHIC information should not be entered into the portal for reimbursement. Regulation 13 of the Charging Regulations concerns this category of patient This is a short link t.ly/y5NMb and this is the original link to the document https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/767905/guidance-on-implementing-the-overseas-visitor-charging-regulations.pdf

There is now a comprehensive update, Applying for a carte de séjour under the Withdrawal Agreement - what we know so far (and what we don't), on the France Rights web site https://www.francerights.info/2020/02/applying-for-carte-de-sejour-under.html

It is possible you could get a French long-stay visa which would allow you to stay for up to a year in France including periods not exceeding 90 days over any period of 180 consecutive days elsewhere in the Schengen Area. https://france-visas.gouv.fr/web/france-visas/long-stay-visa Given the lack of border posts, I'm not sure how they know where you were? And would you be allowed to get a long-stay visa for several years?

If you are a UK resident that should be "the legislation will apply from the day following the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union (31 Dec 2020). From that date, UK nationals who are British citizens will not be required to have a visa for stays in the EU of up to 90 days in any 180-day period” So 90 days out of 180 in the EU not 90 days out of 180 in France. I've not seen mention of a single EU-wide visa. There will be other matters, e.g. health, car insurance, travel documents, etc to consider. I believe it is possible the requirements will not all necessarily be EU wide and some countries may modify some requirements. The current (and regularly updated) UK government advice is https://www.gov.uk/visit-europe-1-january-2021

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