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if you are moving to another EU15 country you can get a card to cover emergency treatment - call to your local health centre. It used to be a form but now they give a plastic card.I have been working in Ireland for four years and have made PRSI contributions since the time I arrived. Though, as I understand it I can't avail of the associated health benefits until I make 52 weeks of PRSI payments (e.g. roughly in excess of four years of payments). I am returning to my home country indefinitely in a few weeks and wonder about all those PRSI contributions made without benefits received. Irealand have an agreement with other countries to allow health benefits, though to qualify you still need the 52 week quota payment. Is there a mechanism to claim back PRSI payments, or at least make use of the existing payments?
Thanks
EHIC?if you are moving to another EU15 country you can get a card to cover emergency treatment - call to your local health centre. It used to be a form but now they give a plastic card.
3. There is no such thing as "transferring" PRSi as you would money. All that merely happens is that one country asks another to state what record of social insurance is ther and then they use that record to pay due entitlement, if any. Therefore, you don't claim X amount because you paid X amount and have now left the country.
The old OASIS website was easier to navigate and locate info in my opnion. Certainly easier to link directly to specific articles! I posted on AAM about this a while ago and also sent my feedback to Cohmairle via the website but never heard anything back. I guess the citizens information flow is unidirectional or something?Sorry I should clarify - I'm sure the Citizen's information staff are also only fantastic (I only rang them once and they gave me the information I needed although I had to drag it out of them a bit) but the website appears to have been designed by the proverbial committee and is quite hard to navigate...
Imogen
PRSI payments or their equivalent are also transferrable between EU15 countries for pension benefits.
Not all countries. The Netherlands is an exemption, I am still paying off a Dutch hospital for needing an ambulance and emergency treatment.
It is a very difficult and slow process to get welfare to acknowledge contributions paid in another EU state. It can take months for them to do so.
Actually in my wifes case they had her UK NI details for over 3 months and never sent them to the UK for her UK record.
It took the involvement of a govt minister to get the matter resolved which in the end consisted of a simple phone call to the UK and the contributions credited and a huge cheque issued in back benefit. 20 mins is all it took once they engaged their asses into gear!
I contacted my local TD ... He told me personally that they never sent her details to the uk.
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