Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements

(asked on 29th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether he will seek confirmation from EU negotiators that paragraph 47 of the Joint Technical Note of 8 December 2017, on healthcare arrangements, will extend, upon retirement, to (a) persons whose competent state is the UK and are in the EU 27 but have not retired on the specified date of the UK's withdrawal from the EU and (b) persons whose competent state is an EU 27 country and are in the UK but have not retired on the specified date.


Answered by
Robin Walker Portrait
Robin Walker
This question was answered on 2nd February 2018

From the very beginning the Prime Minister has been clear that safeguarding the rights of EU citizens living in the UK and UK nationals living in the EU was her first priority for negotiations.

We have now reached an agreement with the EU on reciprocal healthcare arrangements for the purposes of the Withdrawal Agreement, including for UK and EU27 state pensioners who are in scope of the agreement, including those that have not yet reached retirement.

As part of this, reciprocal healthcare rights for UK state pensioners resident in the EU27 who have not yet reached retirement on the specified date are protected in their Member State of residence, once they start drawing their state pension. The same applies equally to EU27 state pensioners resident in the UK on the specified date who have not yet reached retirement.

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