Pizzalover wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2018 5:29 pm

Emergency services are crap in PP or non existent. For the check up, fine, but the higher risk remains and the combination of humidity and heat is a killer. Not too many expats 75 and up here.

taabarang wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2018 6:08 pm If I die in Cambodia my written instructions are quite clear. 1). Shove a bone up my ass and 2) whistle for the dogs.

taabarang wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2018 8:07 pm A predictably tasteless response due to a failure of humor on your part. Typical of you actually.

frank lee bent wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2018 6:21 pm i guess you have registered your Koan Kot kids as US citizens born abroad?
you know their mother and the kids should get usa ss for a long time after you are gone.
it is a pretty simple process compared to some of the gov tomfoolery.
also- any kids you have in ecuador can get it too!

there are a few little cracks of humanitarianism in policy.

While I receive Social Security benefits, can my foreign (non-U.S. citizen, non-green-card holder) spouse also receive spousal Social Security benefits if we live outside the United States?

Depending on your situation, spousal Social Security benefits may be paid to your foreign spouse. For any spouse who is not a U.S. citizen or green-card holder, the general rule is that Social Security payments must stop if the spouse has been outside of the U.S. for six consecutive calendar months. There are a number of exceptions that allow payments outside to the U.S. to continue, however, mostly based on either the receiver’s country of citizenship or residence. For example, for a foreign spouse to receive U.S. Social Security benefits:
Five-year resident requirement: If your foreign spouse is neither a citizen nor resident of the countries listed above, he or she may still may be able to collect ongoing spousal Social Security benefits if the two of you lived together in the U.S. for at least five years while married (not necessarily continuously).

Your foreign spouse must be of full retirement age and you, the retired U.S. worker, must be receiving Social Security benefits. (If your foreign spouse is at least 62, he or she may still be able to receive spousal benefits at a reduced rate.)

If I die, will my foreign spouse receive survivor benefits

Yes. Generally, your foreign widow or widower can receive Social Security survivor benefits if they meet the requirements for spousal benefits listed above and have not remarried. They may receive reduced benefits as early as age 60 (if not disabled) or full benefits at full retirement age or older. If they do not initially meet the five-year U.S. residency requirement, they can choose to relocate to the U.S. after being widowed to complete the residency requirement and then qualify for Social Security benefits.

Kuroneko wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2018 6:28 pm

Pizzalover wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2018 5:29 pm

Emergency services are crap in PP or non existent. For the check up, fine, but the higher risk remains and the combination of humidity and heat is a killer. Not too many expats 75 and up here.

Once you are in the hospital emergency services can be very good. I know that there are some places that are still sub standard, but to make a sweeping statement "Emergency services are crap in PP or non existent" is patently wrong. The problem at present is first response and getting the injured from a crash site to the centre of care. A&E at Central are very good, I have seen them operate and also been a recipient of care a number of times. I have run a hospital here and health services in Australia, I have also taught medics in the Army, so I know what a good level of care means.

I don't want to get into an argument healthcare in Phnom Penh, I have good service, and a number of people I know do also, I am passing on information that could be of benefit to someone on limited resources. The op is new here and needs accurate information on the level standard and cost of health care available. There are people who can ill afford the cost, flying home or to Thailand to access care that is available here, because they listen to this "poor heath care in Cambodia myth", grown from the prevalence of broad sweeping and inaccurate statements trashing the health service.

When I arrived here over twenty years ago the state of the health service was poor, but it has progressed greatly and procedures unthinkable twenty years ago are now commonplace. However the perception of that service by many expats has remained static.

Pizzalover wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2018 1:11 am Since I m not leaving anytime very soon, what would be your advice for in town hospitals. I have read many bad remarks about Calmette but cannot claim that I am able to review these.