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The delay, or otherwise, varies from CPAM to CPAM.  Ours gave us our attestastions on the day we went in - handwritten and valid for a couple of months, then our cartes vitales and full typed Attestations arrived about 6 weeks later.  Others have different experiences and have to wait for the typewritten Attestations and the CV's take months.  Meantwhile, keep any feuilles de soins (brown forms issued by your doc' etc) and you will be able to make retrospective claims once you are in the system. Your wife cannot use an S1 if she is entitled to treatment via a work scheme.   Thus no, imho, you should not use her dependent's S1, even temporarily.  But you can confirm that at your visit. Don't forget to take your passports, proof of residence, RIB (for repayment purposes), your birth and marriage ceritifates.

As I say, I have no idea if that's correct, nor if there is a correct way, but it seemed to me at the time to follow the same logic as the rest of the system so I went for it!  I doubt it could be called cheating.  Similarly, if you were able to look at the gross sterling amounts paid to you in the calendar year and went for the "official rate" system then I guess that would work in the same way.

Doesn't the pension service tell you what the sterling amount was gross for each one?  If so then take that gross amount, convert to euros using the daily rate shown for the day you got the net amount then add 'em up.  If you never get told what the original amount was except via the P60 then I agree, you're stuffed and I guess just have to declare a pro-rata sum for the number of weeks involved.

[quote user="cooperlola"] [quote user="Martin963"] Same satellite (dare not speak its name) -[/quote][:D]  Thank you. Why not try their "offre"?  Because it's so bl**din' expensive, that's why! Digits cross firmly that the dish has not moved, I will invest in TNT Sat then.  It will be great to get the local telly back again. [/quote]As an aside, I ordered my box - same one one as Nick's - just after posting the above and it arrived in the post this morning.  Amazon, Supersaver free delivery.  What service!

Yum. It was only a couple of days ago that we were talking about him as the Classic this year is very much US themed and the Shelby stable will feature large.[:P] The beneficiary of two different transplant ops which added over 20 years to his life.  A great bloke with a great legacy.  Sad, yes, but what a life.

Norman, as the exchange rates etc are all based upon the date of receipt, what I did in your situation was to add up the gross amounts received in the calendar year and declare them (ie work from your own bank statements.)  I don't know if that's entirely correct but as long as the total amount you earn gets declared each year, then nobody loses do they?  I've never found an official way of doing this but of course it might be somewhere!

I have never heard that one before, Papillon.  In fact, my experience has been that the docs here want to start afresh and aren't all that interested in what the UK medics have to say! However, I do know that the possibility of a return of a cancer is not an ALD per se - only if they find anything, then you'll get 100% back.  My own ALD status only lasts four years from the diagnosis date, then the protocol de soins needs to be renewed, afaik.  It may therefore be that they want a confirmation of his cancer history before making a decision about that one. But this is all jut my own experiences and is off the top of my head; clearly different doctors have different ways of doing things.

[quote user="Martin963"] Same satellite (dare not speak its name) -[/quote][:D]  Thank you. Why not try their "offre"?  Because it's so bl**din' expensive, that's why! Digits cross firmly that the dish has not moved, I will invest in TNT Sat then.  It will be great to get the local telly back again.

An idiot's guide would be wonderful.  I've long wanted to register my horse trailer (the company in the UK went bust but it's on a French chassis with the manufacturer's plate in tact) so I can flog the thing. Really glad all the hard work paid off for you, Steve.

I was discussing this with an English friend yesterday. He is an electrician but not of the French artisan variety. We still can't fathom out the advantage of the French "non rose" system of ceiling lighting, but there you go. The problem is that the builders/electricians have drilled holes in the beams and threaded the cables through so that the light fittings come out of dark oak beams, not the white painted bits in between.  Thus, if we get the white plastic bits of kit which Casto sell to go with the light fittings (god knows why, they are mega-ugly agains the delicate glass) then they will look hideous against the beams.  Ultimately, the best option is to re-locate the cables so they come out of the right bits of the ceiling but whether this will be accepted as part of the snagging, I have yet to find out.  Bill, I think forcing your o/h to go round Ikea was indeed very mean, especially at the weekend![:-))]

Sorry to but in.  On a similar subject.  If I buy a TNTSat box to replace my old Canal+ subscription one, I get all the channels Nick listed, right?  ie, can I assume that the dish is pointing at the right part of the sky, given that it used to give me all the subscription channels before I cancelled them?  Did I understand that correctly, Martin et al? Oh, and no need for any satelite names, degrees north etc, as I'll need to go the galmi (get a little man in) route if the dish has to be moved so that will be up to him to figure out!

Sadly, Bill, I own the shades now, I just can't hang 'em from the ceiling. I might have gone to Ikea instead but  they're miles away (and a nightmare to shop in.) Still searching for a decent looking kit to do the job. Ditto still don't know what that Pavillon does which a rose doesn't?

Yes.

I think I am right in saying that if you want TNTSat channels (which include Eurosport in German, for example - I know this because they broadcast the race in June...), you need a TNT card, if not - do as Nick says.  Which channels come from which satelite is not my department!!

[quote user="Boiling a frog"][quote user="pachapapa"] [quote user="allanb"][quote user="AnOther"]You do write some incomprehensible sh1te PPP !  Just for the record is English your 1st language or are you trying to prove something ???[/quote]I think he's trying to impress us.  As far as I'm concerned, he's failing. [/quote] The post to which you refer contained a constructive receipt element AND an actual receipt element reflecting the two navel gazing conflicting ideologies of the thread. [/quote] Absolutly.[/quote][:)] (Although your version said it better, BaF).

A pity, then, that it couldn't stay the same in the looks department!  I really still don't get this "nothing's changed" argument  - yes, Clair, I know it's not the mods' fault - when patently it has changed radically for the worse.  I used to spend a long time on here but now I have to restrict it to half an hour or so a day (in two chunks) or I have a headache all day.  I don't see why we shoultn't keep bringing this up Sid.  I'm sure the powers that be think we're happy with it now when in fact I, for one, am still really fed up about it.  I've asked before but I guess nobody will answer as if the figures were known then the advertisers might start to pull their financial support, but how is forum traffic these days?  I get the distinct impression it's dropped off significantly.  I look in twice a day and there are rarely more than 10 or so unread posts in the Active Topics list since my last time.  Not good for anybody - including Archant.

Thanks for the heads-up, Sunday.  Do we need to change the FAQs? I'm sure I should know, but what's the amount involved - ie the percentage due?  I'm afraid I'm all at sixes and sevens at the mo' as the builders are in and most of my papers locked away or hard to get at.  Plus I'm sitting in a corner in my wheelchair with the laptop trying to slide off...[:-))] (Already posted by mistake before I'd finished typing.)

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So it was.  Missed that.  Sorry Paul.[:$]

Well, if it were me I'd use bags of feed which I know the weight of but then I have them around the place.   Do you have any potential balast of that sort lying about, Steve?

Not for the sensitive soul. [:)]

If you have a local grain store/prairie skyscraper or the like, they probably have a weighbridge for the incoming product.  Mine will weigh a trailer for the price of a beer or two if I ask nicely.

All I can tell you, DD, is that I have two cattle farmer friends who moved here in their late 30s.  Their contributions here in France will not produce a worthwhile pension even if they work until 65 as they just cannot accumulate enough trimestres in that time - or so they tell me.  They have continued to pay voluntary contributions in the UK, and have bought an investment property here in the hope that they can get a pension which will feed and clothe them when their (very physical) working life comes to an end.

They are the ones in the first link in the first post, RR.  I didn't post it directly as a pic' as it's from a website so I'm not sure that forum rules allow.

[quote user="NormanH"] there may be an element of a minimum number of years worked in France, which is of course your point. [/quote]Indeed.  Thus, if our o/p only needed to run his AE for few enough trimestres to remain below the appropriate number, he may well be able to use his S1 on retirement, if he does not qualify for a French pension.  Whatever, it's pretty convoluted stuff with a goodly number of "what ifs" involved.