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Stephanie86 wrote on Fri Dec 18, 2020 3:22pm:

Also the SIP has your allocated doctor printed on the reverse.

bikerdodge wrote on Fri Dec 18, 2020 6:50pm:

When you say the SIP isn't available to Expats after January 1st, does that include people such as us, who have made the application for residency, but will not be given an appointment until well into the new year? 

Stephanie86 wrote on Fri Dec 18, 2020 7:05pm:

As I understand the situation, providing your application for an appointment is already in the system, you will be accepted for a SIP. 
The cut pff point is new applications after Jan 1st.

For certainty you would do well to check with your abogado/a or a gestor.

bikerdodge wrote on Fri Dec 18, 2020 2:02pm:

Hi Stephanie86

Very helpful.

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We don't have either private insurance or an SIP card just now, however we have now made the application for residency, and will be getting a TIE card. I'm hoping this will be the same as the SIP. As far as the €18k goes, is that, per person or for a couple?

Golandrina wrote on Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:22pm:

The 18,000 euros is per person.

Stephanie86 wrote on Fri Dec 18, 2020 3:21pm:

YES!!! The SIP is the Spanish health service card, issued by the local area Health Authority. It has an individualized registration number and has to be quoted/shown at every appointment etc. The S1 is the document issued by Newcastle which currently entitles you to register with the Spanish Heal...

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...th care system, thus obtaining a Spanish card.

In principle the UK S1 tells the Spanish authorities that the UK Health Service will pick up the tab for your treatment (it’s obviously not individual, but aggregated and presumably a transaction occurs annually). This will not be available to ex-pats looking to become resident here after the official end of the transition period at the end of this year.

You have to make an appointment with the social services office - I don’t know if Gandia comes under Denia or has it’s own - and rock up with every piece of paper you can think of, and they will issue the authorization to obtain a SIP,, which you take to your local Centro de Salud where they will laboriously complete various online forms again, issue temporary SIP and inn roughly another three or four weeks you will be awarded the official credit card sized plastic SIP. When you ring for a doctor’s appointment the first enquiry will be ‘numero de SIP?”

DavenJules wrote on Wed Dec 23, 2020 7:02pm:

Thanks Stephanie, that was v useful as was your previous. Liked 'rock up with every piece of paper...' quite the norm lol ;-0

This was instructive as I am a couple of years off the years for S1 ergo SIP and Jules is (luckily or fortuanately) even further off...

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Best wishes and Feliz Navidad ;-)

D&J