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With summer holidays coming on strong, millions of seniors and boomers the world over will be traveling with grandchildren, nephews, nieces and other younger relatives. That’s great. But if you’re intending to cross any international borders, you will need verifiable documentation that the children in your care are traveling with the consent of their parents. More and more governments are requiring such documentation and so they should. We have heard far too many stories about child abductions, single parent “kidnappings” or other forms of child exploitation.
Border agents in most countries, including Canada, the United States and Mexico, have consequently cracked down on unauthorized cross-border travel involving minors and are requiring adults taking even their own grandchildren to have appropriate and verifiable letters of consent. Even if the kids have your name, you need the consent. (Read more)
A 71-year old man has a heart attack while on vacation in Florida, is treated by angioplasty, returns home to Ontario and expects to resume his vacation– fully insured– a couple of weeks later. No strings attached. Sound too good to be true? It is.
No insurer is going to cover that risk. Not even on the strength of a letter from the doctor that his patient is now stable. But when the former executive tries to dig into his company retiree pension plan to confirm that he truly would be covered, he can’t locate the fine print that will give him that assurance. Nobody in the benefits department can find it either. All they can offer is an opinion that he would be OK. And that’s a common story with people who look to company benefit plans to cover out-of-province health services. (Read more)
There are some pretty broad misconceptions that in some countries, foreign travelers can get emergency health care free and travel insurance isn’t necessary. They cite the U.K. as an example. Not so. (Read more)
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