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\n 02\/12\/2025 – 14:06 GMT+1\n <\/p>\n
First you collect your nice pension, you boomer. But coming to town to set your body free might, in the words of Sabrina’s 1987 hit song, just got a little bit trickier. <\/p>\n
The French government plans to end free healthcare for foreign pensioners, closing a loophole that lets them join the system after just 90 days of residence. <\/p>\n
The law will affect all non-EU pensioners, including Brits and Americans. And the numbers are significant. <\/p>\n
Data shows that around 150,000 adult US citizens live in France today, and a roughly similar number of UK nationals.<\/p>\n
Yet, the plan is moving fast. It was accepted by the parliament last month with a vote of 176 to 79 and is likely to be passed by the French government next year<\/p>\n
For future retirees, that means the free ride is soon to be over. <\/p>\n
And for those who have already been taking advantage of the generous system? <\/p>\n
All you are left with to do is to sing “Je ne regrette rien” with a strong American accent. After all, it\u2019s another song from your youth, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 02\/12\/2025 – 14:06 GMT+1 First you collect your nice pension, you boomer. But coming to town…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,637,10439,20495,6107,131,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-320786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-holidays","14":"tag-pensioners","15":"tag-pensions","16":"tag-personal-finance","17":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}