News Archive
Occasionally we place relevant news about CFPS or the Creuse area on our home page.
Property database undergoing maintenance
Our main property database is undergoing a "spring clean" but will be back with plenty of brand new properties very soon. In the meantime our private sales properties are still available.
23rd June 2009
Christmas Holidays 2008
We would like to wish all our clients, both old and new a very Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous 2009.
21st December 2008
Scheduled site maintenance 19/11/2008
The site will be offline for scheduled maintenance between 21:00 and 23:00 GMT on 19/11/2008.
The maintenance has now been completed and the site should be a little quicker.
18th November 2008
Email problem
Ann has had a problem with her email and certain mail has been lost before 02/06/08. If you have not had a reply to email sent before this time please send it again.
4th June 2008
Christmas Holidays 2007
We would like to wish all our clients, both old and new a very Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous 2008.
21st December 2007
Smoking ban
Smoking is now banned from all public places in France including bars, hotels and restaurants.
1st January 2008
The French healthcare system and early retirement
There has been a recent frenzy of news articles about the changes in the French healthcare system with some expats being asked to give back their carte vitale. So how will this affect you?
If you are already in France, over the French retirement age (60 for women 65 for men), have an E121 and your carte vitale, this change will not affect you.
If you are working either as self employed or an employee, this change will not affect you.
If the husband is legally retired, the wife is entitled to a carte vitale as a dependant. It is currently unclear if the husband can automatically be considered a dependant if the wife has retired.
If you have an E106, this will not affect you until the E106 expires.
If you are thinking of taking early retirement to France, apply as normal, you may be lucky and get entitlement but this is not looking very promising.
Help numbers:
CPAM national English-speaking helpline: 0033 (0) 820 904 212
DWP Overseas Medical Benefits line: 0044 (0) 191 218 1999
15th September 2007
Daylight Savings Time
Don't forget the clocks go forward in France as well as the UK on Sunday (25th March).
21st March 2007
New look CFPS
Thank you for bearing with us during the scheduled site maintenance. CFPS is now back online with a fresher design.
The new design has been rigorously tested but if you should have a problem please contact the webmaster with as much detail as possible.
17th March 2007
Scheduled maintenance
CFPS will be unavailable from 11pm Friday 16th March until the early hours of Saturday morning. The maintenance will take approximately 4 hours and has been scheduled for a time that should cause the least disruption.
12th March 2007
