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Medical Card entitlement

  • 27-12-2013 5:48pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    I've had a medical card for most of my life. For the first time I'm over the limit I presume - I earn €42,000 pa gross (€570 per week net).

    I have to update my details with the HSE as they sent me out a form. However, I also have a long-term illness for the past 30 years. Will I lose all entitlement to a medical card now because of my new salary? Or will I have any eligibility to resources?


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  • #2
    sullivlo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    Síorbhuíoch wrote: »
    I've had a medical card for most of my life. For the first time I'm over the limit I presume - I earn €42,000 pa gross (€570 per week net).

    I have to update my details with the HSE as they sent me out a form. However, I also have a long-term illness for the past 30 years. Will I lose all entitlement to a medical card now because of my new salary? Or will I have any eligibility to resources?

    That's way over the threshold. You will likely lose your medical card unless you have a long term illness covered by a long term illness card.

    I will lose my medical card when I get a job despite having a long term illness for 20+ years.


  • #3
    neemish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭neemish


    Build a strong case for keeping the MEdical Card. Help them to help you!

    Your application Form first goes to the financial people. If you pass that, great. If not, it goes to the medical people.

    Get a letter from your GP and your Consultant supporting your application, and saying what treatment your condition requires. Outline any expenses which you may incur because of your illness (medication, doctors visits, physio, counselling, etc etc). If this your first time having a job, or if you are going to full time, ask the HSE to consider letting you keep your card for 18 months or so while you are in transition and in case the job doesn't work out. Have a budget of where your monthly salary will go and show how much you CAN afford to spend on medical expenses.


    Best of luck, if you need any help with the form, feel free to post.


  • #4
    Verwalt1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭Verwalt1


    I have 2 long term illnesses and have just received a form in the post to fill out.My husband owns land and will this affect me getting my card renewed?


  • #5
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,514 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    If you have an LTI, you could be eligible for an LTI card and get meds covered that way.


  • #6
    locum-motion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭locum-motion


    Verwalt1 wrote: »
    I have 2 long term illnesses and have just received a form in the post to fill out.My husband owns land and will this affect me getting my card renewed?


    Please see this post, in which I point out that a long term illness is not necessarily a Long Term Illness.

    Either way, though, your entitlement is based on the Illness, not on means. You could own a whole county, but if you've got Diabetes (for example), you're entitled to a Long Term Illness card.

    The LTI's are:
    • Acute Leukaemia
    • Intellectual Disability
    • Cerebral Palsy
    • Mental Illness (in a person under 16)
    • Cystic Fibrosis
    • Multiple Sclerosis
    • Diabetes Insipidus
    • Muscular Dystrophies
    • Diabetes Mellitus
    • Parkinsonism
    • Epilepsy
    • Phenylketonuria
    • Haemophilia
    • Spina Bifida
    • Hydrocephalus
    • Conditions arising from the use of Thalidomide


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