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  1. Can anybody recommend a hearing aid clinic, where they have had a good experience and ideally reasonable?
  2. At present my water that is pumped from a ground well is unfiltered. Over time there are deposits lying in the storage tank, to the degree that it has to be cleaned out. My lady is telling me, that through various pump engineers that have visited our property, that it is indeed quite easy to install some kind of water filtration system. From those that have, what is the best method and details of what you have purchased please?
  3. This was actually suggested to me by the head of the International Division there, she in fact wanted to give me the discount! And how you got your Yellow Book, could you add to my pevious post please.
  4. Thank you for your post. Okay the Yellow Book is a prerequisite. You mention your local tessaban (sub-district government office), is that the same as the Or Bor Tor please? I live in Rawai, so I presume that it is this Rawai beach office I go to, or maybe I am wrong here. When it is confirmed as to where I should go, could I please trouble you to let me know what is required. in so far as proof and documentation. Any whether or not the owner of the Blue Book has to attend?
  5. Again thank you for dispelling the myth about the so called "health reason " for these funds to be deposited. At least they are there in the event of, so I suppose that's one consolation. Yes for sure these funds are not technically frozen, but if one wishes to renew one's retirement visa on the back of them, then I would say that they are effectively frozen.
  6. Thank you for this clarification, your memory is better than mine. So easy to get confused, let alone be up to date on the current laws, and more importantly how they are interpreted. The Damocles sword of who would be prepared to pay for insurance, who could actually afford the premiums, and finally who could actually get cover that includes pre-existing conditions. Years ago I was told the cut off age was 65.
  7. Just to clarify from my own experience. If you are indeed referring to the sums required of either the 400,000 Baht or 800,000 Baht, I to had them in a fixed deposit account, with them being transferred and credit to my savings account the following day. This practice I was told was totally unacceptable, and I was refused my renewal retirement visa on these grounds. It was only on appealing to the Head of Immigration in Bangkok, that this judgement was overturned. I was told in no uncertain terms, that regarding these requested funds there can be no fixed accounts at all - period. Only solely and only same day access through a normal savings account.
  8. An unreal story. I was one of the first to be granted a retirement visa just after they had been introduced. Right from the get go the immigration officers were suggesting I sould marry my partner, I didn't.
  9. One transfer a year, which includes money to live on, as opposed to 12 transfers.
  10. Seems like a lot of posters are going via the monthly transfer route. On a cost effective basis vis a vis loss of interest (minimum on instant access savings account), at a guess I would say the lump sum method is cheaper.
  11. Thank you for this clarity. Living expenses as opposed to potential health cover. 400,000 to 800,000 Baht locked up until the day I die, and the only beneficiaries I can see here are the banks.
  12. To renew my retirement visa annually, the minimum amount that has to held in my account cannot fall below 400,000 Baht for seven months of the year, and not fall below 800,000 Baht for the remaining five months of the year. Today I was told by a senior Thai Immigration Officer, that even if funds were required for a hospital expense, if my funds in my account fell below the above limits, then I would no longer be able to renew my Thai retirement visa automatically. When this law and requirement was brought into force, I do remember hearing something about the fact that these funds were to be put aside in the event of health issues. To pay hospitals bills, but seeming that is not the case, in fact from what I was lead to believe today, they simple cannot be touched if one wishes to renew their retirement visa. In the event that what I have stated here is incorrect, can anyone point to an English translation of the Thai law, that states categorically that these funds can be used for hospital bills, without denying one's annual visa renewal?
  13. Have indeed, when I made my home 15 years ago spoilt for choice, now very limited indeed.
  14. At the Vachira Phuket Hospital hospital, the head of their International Department said that I would be eligible for a Thai pink ID card for foreigners. This ID would give me 20% to 25 % discount off the hospital fees and charges. Never heard of it, and since then I have made some enquiries. I went to the Amper Muang, but as nobody speaks English I did not get very far. Then I was introduced to an agent, who told me that the application would have to be made personally at the Amper Muang, and secondly I would have to bring along two Thais who could vouch for me, and act as witnesses. I would also need to have an international copy of my Passport made -1,000 Baht. So my question is please, has anyone achieved this holy grail. And if so were there any forms that I should request, any any other documents that I need to take along apart Land Lease, Passport, Blue book?
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