What are Insurance Coverage that Indian Students get in the UK?
Some of the oldest universities in the world are located in the United Kingdom. Its outstanding academic reputation, greater employment rate, wide selection of courses encompassing almost all subject areas, and shorter time when compared to other international learning programmes all contribute to its broad acceptance by students for their higher studies.
A lot of students from India every year migrate to the UK for their higher education. With exemplary education and various other benefits for international students, the UK government also provides students with access to free medical treatment through the national health insurance, called the National Health Service (NHS).
Now you may wonder why I am talking about student insurance in UK, as you don't have to take it compulsorily in India. The reason is that you cannot get treated if you do not have health insurance in the UK. Even for the slightest problem with your body, you need to have UK health insurance.
Now there are certain norms you need to fulfill for availing of government insurance in UK:
You are qualified for the NHS if you own a tier 4 student visa and thereby will be studying in the UK for more than six months.
And during the application for your UK visa, you have to pay the immigrant health surcharge (IHS), which costs around £500 a year in addition to the cost of the visa application, to get yourself insurance in UK.
The NHS covers accidents and emergencies, hospital treatments, family planning, and contraceptive services, for which you need not pay any amount of money.
Once you have landed in the UK, as part of the NHS, you will have to register yourself with a general practitioner. After registering with the GP, you will indeed be given an NHS number. Not waiting until you become ill is advised; register with a general practitioner as soon as possible.
Now, if you're traveling for studies, you will most certainly be eligible for getting the NHS, but suppose if you're traveling for less than 6 months in the UK. You will not get the National Health Service.
Now the question arises: how will you get treatment in the UK then? The answer to this question is "private health insurance." To begin with, there are a lot of private health insurances you can pick from, and if you want the best or are indecisive about which private Indian student insurance for UK, you need to pick for yourself, reach out to Remigos. Remigos is a cross-border payment platform that simplifies not just your payment methods from India to the UK but also provides services like assisting you in getting a UK SIM card or insurance in the UK, banks to choose from, and a lot more.
Now here are the reasons why you should opt for private health insurance:
When the overall waiting period for NHS care is longer than six weeks, you might use private health insurance to shorten the time you would wait.
You get a private room for yourself under the private health insurance, unlike in the NHS.
In contrast to the NHS, you can select a doctor and a facility that work with your schedule.
Those who have private health insurance can avoid having to spend a long time waiting for non-urgent operations.
So if you have planned your migration and are to fly to the UK, make sure that you are prepared for everything you need, and don't forget to get yourself health insurance, whether private or on the NHS. For further help managing your monetary transfers, you can always reach out to Remigos.
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Retirement Meditation - Should I take an in-service withdrawal from my retirement plan?
Author: Paul A. Carl, CHSA, CPFA™ Vice President, Retirement Plan Consulting, Registered Representative
The plan administrator called with a dilemma. A critically important employee stood in her office holding a foreclosure notice. Because the company’s retirement plan permitted neither participant loans nor hardship withdrawals, the employee threatened to quit to get a 401(k) distribution. Additionally, as a matter of policy, the company itself did not make loans or payroll advances to employees. The plan administrator wanted to know what other plan options might be available. A little investigating and it turned out that the 401(k) plan did allow in-service withdrawal of rollover money. The employee had rolled over a previous employer’s 401(k) plan into this company’s plan. The questions now became: How much to withdraw? What would be the tax effects? Did the employee want to permanently remove funds from his accumulated retirement savings?
Some plans offer no in-service withdrawal options while others offer three or more. The most popular in-service withdrawal types are:
Hardship withdrawals
Age 59-1/2 in-service withdrawals
Contribution-source specific withdrawals, such as in the example above
Plans offering hardship withdrawals most often adopt the IRS safe harbor standards for allowing participants to take a hardship withdrawal. By following the IRS safe harbor standards, the plan administrator is limiting hardship withdrawals to certain reasons and creating a fiduciary safety-net in the administration of the hardship provisions.
Plans offering age 59-1/2 in-service withdrawals permit participants aged 59-1/2 or older to take distributions from their retirement plan while they continue employment. These distributions can be rolled over into an IRA or taken as taxable. The key factor? At age 59-1/2, the 10% excise tax penalty on early withdrawal no longer applies. However, personal income taxes can and will apply to taxable distributions.
Contribution-source specific withdrawals are most often related to the rollover source. These are plan assets the participant electively rolled into the employer’s plan from an IRA or a former employer’s plan. Most often, but not always, the plans designed to permit incoming rollovers will also allow those rollover funds to be withdrawn at any time. They can be distributed into an IRA with no tax consequences, or they can be taken as taxable. If the participant taking the taxable in-service withdrawal is younger than age 59-1/2, the 10% tax penalty (and personal income taxes) will apply.
Regardless of the type of in-service withdrawal, the biggest issue for most participants is the permanent removal of accumulated retirement savings. In-service withdrawals, especially those taken as taxable, are effectively removed from the participant’s retirement savings, which could cause a later hardship especially as the participant nears or enters retirement. Remember, these funds taken as taxable distributions are no longer available to earn future growth and no longer available at retirement.
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This could be me. This could be one of my colleagues, one of my classmates, one of my friends. It’s understandable that the original owner is upset over losing her pet, but what she’s done in retaliation is despicable, as is the news station that ran this story smearing our profession. Veterinary professionals should be able to go to work without facing graphic threats of violence against them and their families in return for saving a life in an impossible situation. You wonder why veterinarians and their support staff have such obscenely high rates of depression and suicide? This is why.
If you have a pet, I’m begging you to come up with a financial plan for their veterinary care. Get pet insurance (especially if you’re getting a new puppy or kitten). Start an emergency fund. Have a credit card set aside specifically for this kind of situation. Apply to CareCredit or a charitable fund like the University of Tennessee’s AlignCare if you find yourself unable to cover a bill. Most people don’t have immediate access to $10,000 (which is a reasonable price for the intense level of care this puppy required), so you have to have a plan. And don’t go buy an expensive purebred puppy and then claim you don’t have any money for vet care.
Be kind to your veterinarian. We are hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt from our education while making far less than our human healthcare counterparts. If we were in it for the money, we would have chosen any other career.
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When you’re burnt out from working 80 hours a week and on the edge of losing your damn mind from sleep deprivation but then someone gives you a small snack or you have time to sit down and drink a cup of water:
Today I had the chance to drink a whole cup of water between OR cases and I almost cried of happiness. When the highlight of your day is that you had the chance to pee once, something is wrong.
Residents like me work 80 hours a week (sometimes more) for what calculates out to be less than minimum wage because this is how residencies are structured and because we are the last line between patients and unsafe care. You didn’t hire enough nurses? Have the resident remove/place foleys and NG tubes. You didn’t hire enough transport staff? Have the resident transport patients. I can’t in good conscience let my patients have less than the standard of care, but it becomes unsustainable when you don’t have enough staff. To top this all off, my hospital CEO got a raise of millions of dollars this year, but my raise to next year doesn’t even keep up with inflation. People justify this treatment of residents by saying that oh well we will be rich when we’re attendings, as if having a higher salary in the future justifies this kind of exploitation. I know residents right now who are struggling to afford healthcare for their children, who struggle to find affordable housing within the area we are required to live because of home call. There is simply no justification for the amount of work we do compared with our pay (or the hours we work period).
Maybe this is just a long way of saying please be kind to residents in the hospital. We work really hard within a really broken system and care a lot about our patients.
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College students today face growing challenges, many of them related to physical and mental health. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought students’ mental health issues into the spotlight, with many students facing anxiety and depressive symptoms to worrying degrees.
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Just went in to take the toughest anatomy test of the semester (multiple choice, for lecture) that I only kinda prepared for and have like 7/10 migraine type headache pain and somehow managed an 82. I will take it and run thank you very much.
Somehow I'm going to survive this semester, although not unscathed. This pain is unreal lately.
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