P-O Life n°29 (11.8MB) - Anglophone-direct.com
P-O Life n°29 (11.8MB) - Anglophone-direct.com
P-O Life n°29 (11.8MB) - Anglophone-direct.com
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Things you might need t<br />
English speaking EDF<br />
phone line<br />
If you are having problems<br />
with your electricity supply,<br />
account, billing etc and need an<br />
English speaker, help is at hand<br />
on 00 33 (0) 5 62 16 49 08<br />
Apparently the best time to<br />
call is first thing in the morning,<br />
and they may take a while to<br />
answer but are very helpful when<br />
they do!<br />
Always ask for a name as it is<br />
a small office and you should be<br />
able to <strong>com</strong>municate with the<br />
same person each time to save<br />
repeating your situation over and<br />
over and over…...<br />
You can also contact them on<br />
simpleenergywithedf@edf.fr<br />
Spam….….<br />
From 2011, mobile<br />
phone users in<br />
France will be<br />
able to protect<br />
themselves from<br />
spam phone call<br />
such as unwanted<br />
voicemail<br />
messages or cold<br />
callers by adding<br />
their number to an<br />
official black-list.<br />
Spam voicemail<br />
messages and<br />
missed calls from 08 numbers,<br />
tempting the phone owner to<br />
call back at premium-rates can<br />
already be reported by calling<br />
33700 from your mobile. These<br />
messages can now be reported<br />
50<br />
…… and scam<br />
Thinking of setting up as<br />
an autoentrepreneur<br />
If an official looking letter and<br />
form arrive from ‘Inforegistre’,<br />
demanding payment for<br />
entry into an online business<br />
register, ignore it! There are<br />
NO <strong>com</strong>pulsory <strong>direct</strong>ory<br />
registrations and this is simply a<br />
way of scamming money out of<br />
new businesses!<br />
Stamp price rises<br />
Stamp prices for letters<br />
delivered within France rose<br />
at the beginning of July to<br />
€0.58 for a ‘tarif prioritaire’ (first<br />
class) and €0.53 for a ‘tarif<br />
économique’ (second class).<br />
Feeling lucky<br />
French <strong>com</strong>poser Edmond<br />
Audran was an unknown<br />
until he produced hit<br />
production, La Mascotte,<br />
in 1880, The opera, named<br />
after a provincial French<br />
word for a witch, followed<br />
a central character who<br />
had such good luck<br />
that theatregoers were<br />
sure it had to <strong>com</strong>e from<br />
supernatural sources. As the<br />
show expanded throughout<br />
Europe, the title of the opera<br />
came to describe any object<br />
or person bringing good<br />
fortune<br />
A Load of sCrap<br />
The scrap bonus scheme (prime<br />
à la casse) introduced by the<br />
French government nearly two<br />
years ago to encourage the<br />
buying of new cars is being<br />
phased out. The original offer<br />
of €1,000 towards a new car<br />
when the old one was scrapped<br />
was reduced to €700 at the<br />
beginning of this year, dropped<br />
again in July to €500, and will be<br />
<strong>com</strong>pletely ‘scrapped’ by 2011.<br />
Doctors and medicines<br />
Fees for GPs go up in<br />
January 2011, €22 to €23.<br />
Reimbursement for<br />
prescription medicines will<br />
also be reduced. Medicines are<br />
reimbursed at different rates,<br />
which are shown by the colour of<br />
the label.<br />
15% Orange<br />
35% Blue<br />
65% White<br />
100% Barred white<br />
Your ‘mutuel’ or top up health<br />
insure will reimburse a further<br />
amount depending on your<br />
policy.<br />
On your bike…<br />
It may well be<strong>com</strong>e a legal<br />
requirement in France in the<br />
future to wear a cycle helmet<br />
and fluorescent jacket. As yet,<br />
this is not law but has been<br />
proposed in parliament.
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