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THE Allier bring and buy book, DVD, video and bring and buy lunch starts 11.00 Thursday 20th March.  Come for the sale or the lunch.  All welcome. Directions and further information by PM or email. Contact details edited by the moderators. Please do  not post your personal details.

I have been led to believe that there are two strands within French state health care which are relevant now to the debate. 1. CMU: universal care for those resident in France, and providing 100% reimbursement. 2. Regime obligatoire: ( may or may not be under auspices of CMU!) providing 65% reimbursement and requiring a mutuelle. The regulations issued by the Social Security Department recently refer only to the CMU. The term "actif" is defined not merely in terms of employment, but receipt of income. Thus the provision of all incomes to those not working in France and declared for the purposes of cotisation for state Health Insurance, is valid.  The term "inactif" is defined therefore as those not in receipt of declared income. To decide if the new regulations affect you, ask the following:   Am I receiving healthcare via CMU FREE, have no declared income, therefore inactif.   If so private healthcare is for you in the future. Am I under the 'regime obligatoire', have an income (therefore actif), and pay cotisations.   Therefore no change.      

[:D]  Hi, we have lived in the Allier for four years now.  Lovely place.  It doesn't have the dramatic scenery of further south in the Auvergne, but gently rolling calm countryside.  Property of all types still very cheap.   Our French neighbours have all been friendly and welcoming, maybe because very few English around as yet.  We feel very at home here.  Montlucon has every type of shop, trains from Moulins to Paris not bad.  Does any of this help?