Also worth checking how ATO/Medicare/access to Centrelink will play out if you spend time living both here and abroad. Some restrictions apply - where you are domiciled for tax purposes may impact treatment of overseas assets, access to medicare
Thankfully I'm hoping reciprocal agreements in place with UK residents with Oz passports?
Yes
You'd need your passport and non expired Medicare card when in one of the 11 countries with reciprocal Medicare agreements, UK being one of them.
www.servicesaustralia.gov.au
Whether or not you have an AU passport is moot IMO if place of residence is not in Australia.
Excellent. Now to ensure son doesn't destroy his card....You'd need your passport and non expired Medicare card when in one of the 11 countries with reciprocal Medicare agreements, UK being one of them.
Reciprocal Health Care Agreements - medical care when you travel to another country - Reciprocal Health Care Agreements - Services Australia
To be covered under a Reciprocal Health Care Agreement (RHCA) with Australia, you’ll need to meet the agreement conditions.
These reciprocal agreements are a bit of a minefield. I have a UK NI number and a UK passport as well as a Medicare card and Australian passport. I remember being told by admin clerk at a UK public hospital that I was only covered for their definition of 'emergency' care under the reciprocal health agreement with Australia using my Medicare card and anything else would be chargeable. She had checked my NI number and informed me that the system said I lived in Australia (true) and that therefore I couldn't be treated as if I was a UK resident.
Is he on myGov?
Yes. He had to pay Help debt last year as he reached the income threshold in the UK so I tell him to keep logging in and checking. He's been away since 2020. Yes. He managed to exit during 2020. How he got permission I don't know. But he was genuine in leaving and did leave to eventually get married in the UK. Again during 2021 coz that's what kids do.
We didn't get permission to exit for his wedding in July 2021. I'm still bummed about that.
If your son has been living in the UK since 2020 he should be treated under the NHS scheme just like any other UK resident.Yes. He had to pay Help debt last year as he reached the income threshold in the UK so I tell him to keep logging in and checking. He's been away since 2020. Yes. He managed to exit during 2020. How he got permission I don't know. But he was genuine in leaving and did leave to eventually get married in the UK. Again during 2021 coz that's what kids do.
When I got sick in Egypt and then flew to the UK they charged me because I got sick in another country. I think this was to circumvent the people being sick in their own country and going to the UK for free treatment
I’ve had one so can confirm they exist. Most people don’t bother though
If he comes to Australia to visit us. Yes. He has full access to NHS in Britain.
