LongTimeLurker

You need a letter of residence from immigration and copies of your passport (and the original I think.)

You fill in a form, hand it over with the sellers forms and in half an hour you have a car.

8 hours ago, fangless said:

UC=Universal Credit.  A welfare/benefit system in the UK.

The connection is that £20 was added as a COVID bonus which expires shortly and the do-gooders are calling it a cut now that it is ending when it is no such thing.

Right, gotcha, a bit like the pensioners crying that they are worse off because of the change to the triple-lock, when they are still, in fact, better off than they were before.

22 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

Yes they are, but the one thing they all have in common, is that they are not made from Man made Concrete.

Having seen some of the " Sludge " expelled from the Concrete Trucks here in Thailand, I would question the very structural makeup of much of the Concrete used in Construction.

Maybe its different on Large Condo projects Etc, but I have never even seen a slump test performed, and much of the Ready Mix stuff seems to be very high in Water content

But remember, it was the Romans that invented concrete.

I've never had any problems with readymix concrete supplies here in Thailand, except when the client insisted on a spec where the concrete had to be delivered below 30C, but it was manageable even though we had some cement lumps.

I'd have liked to have seen the spec for the Phase II project, whether the client amended it to not get the problems or not as I always suspected it was a ruse to get some kickback for relaxing the spec.

22 hours ago, Almer said:

Ah, but Stonehenge isn't premixed and poured, Stonehenge was dragged, from where i know not i got bored listening to the teacher.

But remember, it was the Romans that invented concrete.

5 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

Bit like UC in the UK?

What's UC?

7 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

His OK then if you keep paying after that you a little more I believe. 

On the day I couldn't work out my pension it was more than basic and was told the extra years on top are taken into account. 

You can also hold up your pension these days and get a bigger pay out. 

 

I don't think you can get more than the maximum pension, and that is achieved at 35 contributions.

Except by deferment, which I guess is what your last sentence refers to, but you have always been able to do that, it's just not worth it now.

The IOs must be so disappointed that the maximum fine is only Baht 20,000.

On 9/15/2021 at 1:37 PM, JimGant said:

Two bank statements -- for those going the 400/800k money in the bank -- have been required now for several years, at least at some IOs, including Chiang Mai.

Not in Jomtien when I did my extension in January this year.

Immigration have never asked me for a bank statement for my retirement extension, only a copy of the updated passbook.

However, for a guardian extension they require a 1 years bank statement, as well as the copy of the updated bankbook, and Kasikorn issue that immediately.

Edit: They also require, for some mysterious reason, copies of the Blue Book as proof of address for the guardian extension, even though a foreigner cannot be included in a Blue Book?

21 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Has he got 35 years.? 

37 years

1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said:

Yes if you work say 40 years you keep paying it, if you work 30 years that's all you pay unless you make a top up. You can't work 40 years and decide to stop paying NI after 35, that's all it means, you keep paying it while working unless paid below minimum which is popular for those using a limited company

So why has my mate who is not working been told by HMRC to continue paying until he gets his pension?

On 8/23/2021 at 7:56 PM, scubascuba3 said:

On 8/23/2021 at 7:51 PM, LongTimeLurker said:

 

When I checked the NI website last week it said you have to pay NIC up to retirement age.

have you got a link for that?

YES!! Found it now.

https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance

When you stop paying

If you’re employed, you stop paying Class 1 National Insurance when you reach the State Pension age.

If you’re self-employed you stop paying:

• Class 2 National Insurance when you reach State Pension age
• Class 4 National Insurance from 6 April (start of the tax year) after you reach State Pension age

Doesn't say anything about Class 3 contributions though?

20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Thailand’s cabinet approved, in principle, a measure to attract “high potential” foreigners, including wealthy retirees and specialists, to stay long term in the country in a bid to promote foreign investment and to improve the struggling economy.

20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Thailand has set a target to attract as many as one million of these classes of foreigners

Didn't Toxin try the same thing with the Thailand Elite scheme?

And how did that work out?

20 hours ago, transam said:

I am a competent plumber in Thailand. Sadly, I am not for hire..

Ever thought of training up a few of the relatives so there might be a future generation of plumbers?

There isn't a competent plumber in the whole of Thailand!!

23 hours ago, Confuscious said:

Everybody can get a vaccination, but the vaccination card is ONLY available to Thai people with a 13-digit number on their ID-Card.

Not true, I didn't have a 13 digit number but I've been vaccinated, as has my wife who also didn't have one.

But we have no so maybe it will be useful in the future.

23 hours ago, clivebaxter said:

I did it with tax card that has an ID number on it,

I tried with my tax card number and it wasn't accepted.

3 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

I'm already in Thailand and I am still waiting to be vaccinated. 

Do the tourists have a stamp on their forehead to distinguish them from the unclean.

Yes, they will have to wear a yellow star on their clothes to show they've been vaccinated.

If you feel you'll be a threat to anyone by transmitting Covid, why would you go out and mix with these tourists? Or anyone else?

14 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

he industry is basically finished here. Five years from now it will be a pale shadow of it's former self. Tourism here is essentially finished.

Not as long as there's bars and girls.

11 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

13 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said:

By entering the country they will have already proven that they have been double vaccinated, and there will be no curfew.

Go on believing that one...lol

Well, if you need to be double vaxxed as a tourist to enter the country do you not believe there will be a check on that?

And why would anyone, except with family here, want to come if there's a curfew?

So the way to attract tourists is by not telling them to go to bed by 21:00.

53 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

Terrible way to spin this article. Please, read the entire article. Not just the title. Jeez.

 

From that article:

 

However, the higher number of fully vaccinated people dying does not mean that the vaccine is not working, but instead reflects the large majority of people in England who have now been jabbed.

 

Currently, 79.4% of the population aged 16 and over in England are fully vaccinated.

I think it's you that is misreading it.

Firstly the headline makes no reference to the fact that nearly double the number of double jabbed are dying from Covid than unvaccinated.

Secondly, you must have missed the following paras

"In this time period, 37 people under the age of 50 who had been double jabbed and 1,054 over-50s have died after testing positive for the Delta variant – now the dominant strain of the virus in the UK.

This compares to a total of 536 COVID deaths of unvaccinated people from all age grounds during that time."

17 minutes ago, EricTh said:

Some banks do not accept driving licence.

I've only had mine rejected when the passport number on the licence does not match the passport number my bank has on record, e.g. when you get a new passport and then get a new driving licence before updating your bank record.