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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

France Show 2008

Once again we invite you to join us on stand p128 at the France show 2008. The show is held between the 18th and 20th of January at the Olympia in London. For further details of the event, or directions, please see the France show web site.

15th January 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

A new office

Congratulations to Mr Marcon and Marcon Immobilier on the opening of their new office in Boussac. Keep an eye out for new properties from this office (prefix 0053).

18th May 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

National road change

Please note when travelling in the Creuse that the N141 Limoges - Aubusson - Clermont Ferrand road has now changed to the D941.

5th March 2007