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Dear Euro@Trash Much appreciated. Your informed and logical analysis, particularly your last paragraph, would suggest therefore that my next move should be to get a job (even a short-term/seasonal one) in France and, when that job comes to its natural end, sign up to the French unemployment benefit system where "France will pay chomage for a duration calculated on the period you've worked in France, plus (I think) earlier qualifying periods in the UK.". Is my above assessment of my next suggested step consistent with what you have kindly written? Please do tell me where my argument is flawed/falls down. Thank you vey much again.

Thank you for all your replies - all are useful pointers. To encourage further pointers from your collective wisdom, I should clarify that my sole goal is to legitimately get access to the significantly more generous (than the UK one) French unemployment benefit system. To recap I am a British national, fiscally resident in France (ie a French tax payer) with a French social security number, having only ever worked in the UK but now unemployed. All I know 100% is, if I had signed up for UK unemployment benefits before I left the UK, that would have precluded me from getting access to French unemployment benefits. Thank you everyone again for helping me to navigate this - I fear that an unintentional wrong step taken at any one point in this complicated process could be detrimental to achieving my above-stated goal.

Dear all. I (British but French tax resident) recently lost my job working for a UK firm in the UK and am now back home in France. I plan to sign-up to Pole Emploi to recieve French unemployment benefit. The Pole Emploi website says that the abovementioned UK employment will be taken into account into assessing the amount of my entitlement "as long as I have worked in France since losing my job in the UK" - this bit in brackets is the critical condition that triggers my entitlement to French unemployment benefit ("Pôle emploi prend en compte les périodes de travail accomplies à l'étranger indiquées sur ce formulaire, à condition que vous ayez travaillé en France postérieurement à cette activité étrangère."). My question therefore is; do I first need to have worked (even if it is only for one week) in France prior to signing up at Pole Emploi, or can I sign up for Pole Emploi first (which determines my start date for entitlement to French unemployment benefit) and then do a week's work? My concern is that by signing up with Pole Emploi first would be detrimental to my claim for French unemployment benefit and, consequently, that I'd only be ultimately entitled to a UK level of unemployment benefit (albeit paid to me via the French state). Any thoughts/experience of this situation would be most welcome. Thank you very much.

Hi all. As a first-timer here and unfortunately unable to find an answer to my specific question, I am hoping nevertheless my question is right for this forum and that the collective wisdom here can please help us. My wife (a 58 year old French national/tax resident, not in receipt of any UK taxable income, but still has a UK bank account) has requested a valuation of her UK pension plan in order to receive a one-off lump sum payment as we need the cash urgently for an emergency in France. The question is therefore whether it will be possible/straightforward to receive the cash into her UK bank account (and deploy the money immediately to address the emergency in France) and deal with French tax declaration afterwards? Alas, rather tough times for us, so I really appreciate all kind gestures of advice/thoughts/suggestions/pointers. Thank you very much.