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6 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Better to just get a decent PA insurance

Wow.

Mind. Blown. 

I'm sorry to hear that, OP.

I believe some Thai bank debit cards offer accident insurance.

K-Bank definitely did before and it helped a friend out from a lot of insurance hassle around 10 years ago when he had a motorcycle accident. He was treated in a private hospital and it covered the ambulance and all treatment/meds up to 5,000 baht I think.

I should look into it as it's worth opening up an account and putting in 500 baht and paying for a 500 baht a year debit card or whatever. 

Dead at home or around 3 months and nobody noticed, bothered or cared. 😥

On 10/23/2023 at 2:48 PM, noobexpat said:

Crypto is joke to me

The joke is on you. 

3 hours ago, Sheryl said:

And SS has 2 types, regular and Civil Service.

 

If your wife is a career civil servant and thus under the Civil Service SS system you as her husband are also covered.

How will we find out which one she is on.

She isn't a civil servant, her career is working within one of the largest Thai organizations, not the government.

Under the regular SS her legal husband cannot also be covered? 

I didn't know about being able to piggyback off family member's social security healthcare.

My sons will likely enter the Thai work force in the future.

My Thai wife works and is in the SS system, government health and pension, deducted from her salary.

Can I, as a foreign husband living here, piggyback off my Thai wife's UHC and also get covered by it?

My sons are Thai born with a Thai mother.

They should be covered by the UHC system. Universal healthcare, also known as the 30 baht scheme. 

Is it still in existence or has it been changed?

They don't work yet.

If they work in Thailand and are in the UHC system, I as a non-Thai father living here can also be covered by the UHC 30 baht scheme through them?

3 hours ago, Jaymatheson said:

Once you're registered for healthcare as a foreigner, are you covered for life or only to a certain age?

 

Thanks

I am the OP.

I believe that once you stop working (after a minimum of 1 year working) you have a small window of time to apply to continue the coverage, which should be for life as long as you pay the 400 baht every month. 

13 minutes ago, digbeth said:

you have to have worked for 12 months to continue payment under section  39 scheme

 

and be mindful of the lag employer might have in staring enrolling you into the social security system

Thanks. 

I've been offered a contract that includes the Thai healthcare scheme which is deducted at 750thb per month.

I'm considering the position. One aspect I'm interested in is that once the contract is finished, I would be able to continue the Thai Healthcare Scheme once I notify them within a set number of days (around 1 month I believe) of the employment ending, and continue to pay around 400thb per month, which is payable at the 7-11 etc.

This is the way it was previously, is this still correct? 

Is there a minimum amount of time one needs to be employed and paying into the system before they can continue when the employment ends? For example, to be accepted for continuing the scheme after employment does one need to have worked for 1 year, 3 years, 1 month, there is no required timeframe, once you are registered when you start work you can continue after the employment ends?

TIA. 

Is that the Thai bloke on the right? 

10 hours ago, drtreelove said:

That would be a short term plan, a few weeks to a few months at best. Without drainage - root rot, yellowing and mortality will occur. 

The Japanese grass that I am testing is the most beautiful, thin blades, and actually looks artificial because it is so perfect. 

They also sell sod strips of other species, the thicker, hardier grasses.

There is a flat sandy and stony area near us that has concrete areas and has the thicker bladed scrub style of grass growing on it naturally. It looks like it was a concrete area that builders left lots of sand on it years ago, and the hardy grass took over it. 

I guess the less beautiful hardier species of grasses are less prone to root rot due to drainage issues? 

17 minutes ago, drtreelove said:

Without drainage - root rot, yellowing and mortality will occur. 

So drainage is the issue, not soil depth (or lack of it)?

7 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

No. Nobody who lives in Thailand will be stunned by that. 

The community was stunned that it was only 1 key

2 minutes ago, StayinThailand2much said:

Yes, it is so simple. That's why there are hundreds of pages and thousands of posts now discussing this topic on this very forum...

They're discussing the reasoning and implications, not the simple process of getting a TIN lol ????????????

You posted the exact same post twice, are you as new to the internet as you are to Thailand? ????

59 minutes ago, StayinThailand2much said:

This was about cash, not an official document which to get might be both, time-consuming and/or requiring being fluent in Thai as for taxation. Will they hand out tax forms at all border posts, and assign an employee to help you fill it out for the next 30-60 minutes?

You're obviously new here. ????

Getting a TIN and paying income tax is simple. No work permit or employment needed. 

The same as handing over your departure card, hand over a simple tax clearance cert too. 

A simple booth for those with Non-Imm visas to show their tax declaration cert, stamped, then in through immigration. Simple. ????

The exact same as when we needed to pay the departure tax in cash before being allowed enter the departure zone. But you wouldn't remember that because you're new here. ????

6 minutes ago, StayinThailand2much said:

stop me from leaving

Very easy.

The same as when departure tax had to be paid in cash before exiting, before it was hidden in the ticket price.

No pay tax, no leave. It was their immigration system at borders for years. 

2 hours ago, bob smith said:

I reckon the Savannakhet Embassy is about to become very busy..

 

If Thailand does indeed bring in this ridiculous tax policy on foreign income generated abroad then it should be relatively easy for us married folk to dodge the bullet.

34 minutes ago, bob smith said:

And what self respecting foreigner would go through such an arduous process just to legally stay here?

 

People will leave in droves.

9 minutes ago, bob smith said:

if they do try to tax me on my income earned abroad then it’s bye bye Thailand, hello sunny cambodia! 

Which is it?

1. Savannakhet will be very busy, and it will be very easy for you to continue living here?

2. Foreigners will be leaving in droves?

3. You will leave to live in Cambodia?