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Who is regarded as a person dependent on an incoming frontier worker?
A person dependant on an incoming frontier worker is a family member of an incoming frontier worker working in Flanders or Brussels, who is older than 25 years, and who is subject to Belgian social security based on a derived right.
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When must a person dependent on an incoming frontier worker join the Flemish Care Insurance?
As from 1 January 2011, as a person dependent on an incoming frontier worker, you must join the Flemish Care Insurance if you meet the following conditions:
- you are older than 25 years;
- you are a person dependent on an incoming frontier worker working in Flanders;
- you live in a Member State of the EU, EEA or in Switzerland.
As from 1 January 2011, as a person dependent on an incoming frontier worker, you may join the Flemish Care Insurance if you meet the following conditions:
- you are older than 25 years;
- you are a person dependent on an incoming frontier worker working in Brussels;
- you live in a Member State of the EU, EEA or in Switzerland.
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May these persons submit an application for care insurance allowances with retroactive effect starting on the moment on which they must or may join the insurance?
You may submit an application for reimbursements with retroactive effect until, at the earliest, the day on which you should have or could have joined the care insurance scheme. To that end you must file the application to the care insurance scheme at the latest on 31 December of the second year following the date on which the Flemish Care Fund received the file from the Crossroads Bank for Social Security, in which you are registered for the first time.
- You join a care insurance scheme from the period for which you wish to benefit from an allowance (with retroactive effect).
- You submit an application form for reimbursements to your care insurance scheme.
- To the application for reimbursements for informal and home care you append the supporting documents showing that, on the date of the virtual application, you were affected by long-term, seriously reduced autonomy.
- To the application for reimbursements for residential care, you append the supporting documents showing that, on the date of the virtual application, you resided in a recognised residential facility.
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