Hi guys,
Hope you are all healthy during these difficult times.
We would really appreciate your help: Me and my wife are thinking of moving to Alberta from BC around July (many reasons why during COVID-19...), we are both Permanent Residents.
From what we have read, there is a waiting time of 3 months from the day we establish our residency in Alberta to be covered. We would be eligible from day 1 as we have a place to stay / rent that will provide us with rental agreement to apply for the coverage. We also read about possible reimbursement if we need a medical help within those 3 months but how does it really work? If we moved on July 1st, we would be covered from October 1st but we are bit concerned what happens if we i.e. get COVID-19 and need an emergency care before October 1st.
We are planning on moving to Alberta permanently or at least for definitely longer than 12 months.
We were thinking of applying for it in May with the rental agreement given prematurely by a future landlord with an earlier date but we also read we cannot obtain benefits from "previous" province. That would rule us out from BC coverage for 2 months.
Help appreciated (might decide on our move, too).
Hope you are all healthy during these difficult times.
We would really appreciate your help: Me and my wife are thinking of moving to Alberta from BC around July (many reasons why during COVID-19...), we are both Permanent Residents.
From what we have read, there is a waiting time of 3 months from the day we establish our residency in Alberta to be covered. We would be eligible from day 1 as we have a place to stay / rent that will provide us with rental agreement to apply for the coverage. We also read about possible reimbursement if we need a medical help within those 3 months but how does it really work? If we moved on July 1st, we would be covered from October 1st but we are bit concerned what happens if we i.e. get COVID-19 and need an emergency care before October 1st.
We are planning on moving to Alberta permanently or at least for definitely longer than 12 months.
We were thinking of applying for it in May with the rental agreement given prematurely by a future landlord with an earlier date but we also read we cannot obtain benefits from "previous" province. That would rule us out from BC coverage for 2 months.
Help appreciated (might decide on our move, too).