Paphos Life

Is anyone aware of how pensioners and their dependants will be expected to pay their contributions to the scheme?
Pat

Hello.

I have looked into GESY but alas they have no more idea than the rest of us, I feel the only real change for pensioners will be higher prescription charges, I am a pensioner, this is just reading between the lines, we will just have to wait and see until they themselves have the answers.

I had understood that those of us not in paid employment, ie pensioners, would be billed twice a year, June and December, based on our income per our tax returns.
However, I am seeing my Cypriot friend who is an accountant next week and if I get any further information, I will pass it on.

I had the same response as PW when I emailed them about my Mum who is a pensioner.

Not recently, but the only articles I have read state that people in receipt of a Cypriot state pension will pay contributions to GESY. Until the Brexit situation is resolved I doubt if there will be information available for UK State Pensioners.

Hudswell,
I am hoping that the UK will continue to fund the health care for retired UK pensioners. They did this before Cyprus joined the EU. But the whole Brexit business is such a mess our situation is unlikely to be uppermost in the British Govt’s mind.

Dee