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TAS EuropeBenefits

Twelve areas of benefit.

Your membership covers twelve areas of everyday life, from the journey home to the day a family needs its community most. Each is a set of programmes that we negotiate and arrange on behalf of our members, adapted to how people live in Europe.

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La Défense, the morning commute

Every programme is marked in one of two ways.

  • With your member card
  • Free to everyone

Travel home & across Europe

Europe’s families travel on a calendar: August, the year’s end, the great feasts, the school holidays. Members travel home, and across the continent, on programmes we negotiate for the routes they actually take: by air, by rail, by coach and by ferry.

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  1. Family flights in peak season

    Fares we negotiate for summer and the year’s end, when whole families travel at once.

    With your member card

  2. Rail across borders

    Long-distance and night trains between Europe’s cities, on terms set for members.

    With your member card

  3. Coach and ferry routes

    The working routes between neighbouring countries, and across the Channel and the Mediterranean.

    With your member card

  4. Visiting relatives

    Travel programmes for the parents and family who come to see you, in either direction.

    With your member card

  5. Baggage for the journey home

    Baggage terms we negotiate for journeys that carry more than a weekend bag.

    With your member card

  6. Urgent travel

    We help arrange a journey at short notice when a family emergency calls you home.

    With your member card

  7. Passenger-rights guide

    Your rights when a flight or a train is delayed or cancelled, in plain language.

    Free to everyone

Sending money home

Money moves in both directions across Europe’s borders: out to parents and children on every continent, and in from Europeans abroad who keep a home here. We negotiate as one body, so that the terms are set for the many.

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  1. Regular transfers home

    Terms we negotiate for the monthly transfer to family, to any country.

    With your member card

  2. Transfers into Europe

    For Europeans abroad who support parents, children or a home in Europe.

    With your member card

  3. School fees and medical bills

    Paying a school, a clinic or a hospital in another country directly.

    With your member card

  4. Cash pick-up and mobile wallets

    Reaching relatives who do not hold a bank account.

    With your member card

  5. Larger transfers

    Guidance and negotiated terms for a house purchase, a wedding or a funeral.

    With your member card

  6. Know-before-you-send guide

    How to compare the true cost of a transfer: the fee, the exchange rate and the speed.

    Free to everyone

Phone, internet & roaming

Within the EU and the EEA, roaming is regulated. Beyond them, and on calls to the rest of the world, it is not. We negotiate for households that live in more than one country at once.

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  1. Mobile plans for new arrivals

    Plans we negotiate for people without a long local history.

    With your member card

  2. Roaming beyond the EU

    For members in the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the wider continent, and for visits home outside Europe.

    With your member card

  3. International calling

    Calls to the countries our members come from.

    With your member card

  4. Home internet

    Broadband programmes for households setting up a new home.

    With your member card

  5. Family lines

    One plan for the adults and teenagers of a household.

    With your member card

  6. Keeping your number

    We guide you through moving a number, or keeping it alive, when you change country.

    With your member card

Health, dental & vision

Every European country runs its own health system, with its own way in and its own gaps. Our programmes sit beside the public system, never in place of it, and insurance is offered only through licensed providers.

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  1. Cover for the first months

    Arranged through licensed providers, for the period before a national system admits you.

    With your member card

  2. Dental programme

    Check-ups and treatment that public cover often leaves to the patient.

    With your member card

  3. Vision programme

    Eye tests, glasses and contact lenses for the household.

    With your member card

  4. Visiting-parents medical cover

    Through licensed providers, for relatives who come to stay.

    With your member card

  5. Care in your language

    We help you find doctors and therapists who speak your language.

    With your member card

  6. Mental wellbeing

    Counselling and support for the strain of living far from family.

    With your member card

  7. Health-system guides

    How to register with a doctor and join the national system, country by country.

    Free to everyone

Pharmacy

A prescription written in one country, a medicine with a different name in the next, a child’s vaccination booklet in a third language: pharmacy is where a cross-border life becomes practical.

  1. Prescription programme

    Terms we negotiate on medicines that public cover leaves to the patient.

    With your member card

  2. Everyday pharmacy

    Baby care, vitamins and everyday health products.

    With your member card

  3. Travelling with medication

    What to carry, and which documents, when your medicines cross a border with you.

    With your member card

  4. Finding an equivalent medicine

    We guide you when your usual medicine is sold under another name.

    With your member card

  5. Family vaccination records

    Keeping a family’s vaccination records understood when you move.

    With your member card

Insurance through licensed providers

Insurance is regulated country by country. Every programme here is offered through licensed providers in the country where you live, under their terms. Membership itself is not insurance.

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  1. Life cover

    For those who depend on your income, in Europe or at home.

    With your member card

  2. Final expense cover

    So that a funeral, here or in the country of origin, does not fall on the family.

    With your member card

  3. Travel cover

    For the long journey home, and for visits in both directions.

    With your member card

  4. Home and contents

    For tenants and owners, including a first home in a new country.

    With your member card

  5. Motor

    Including guidance on carrying a claims history from one country to the next.

    With your member card

  6. Personal liability

    The everyday cover that several European countries expect a household to hold.

    With your member card

Banking, savings & credit-building

A new country rarely recognises the financial history you built in the last one. We negotiate for people who are starting again, and for Europeans abroad who keep an account at home.

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  1. A first account in a new country

    Opened with the documents a new arrival actually holds.

    With your member card

  2. Credit-building

    A way to build a record in a country where you have none.

    With your member card

  3. Savings

    Savings programmes for households that support family in two places.

    With your member card

  4. Home-loan readiness

    We guide you through what lenders ask of someone who has moved country.

    With your member card

  5. An account at home for Europeans abroad

    Keeping an account in Europe while you live elsewhere.

    With your member card

  6. Banking for the self-employed

    For members who run a shop, a trade or a small company.

    With your member card

Jobs, skills & recognition of qualifications

A nurse, an electrician or an engineer should not have to start again from nothing. In Europe, professions and trades are recognised country by country; we guide members to the right door and prepare them to walk through it.

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  1. Recognition of qualifications

    We guide you to the body that recognises your diploma or trade in each country.

    With your member card

  2. Language courses

    From a first course to the professional level your field requires.

    With your member card

  3. Bridging courses

    The additional training a profession asks for before it recognises you.

    With your member card

  4. CV and interview, the local way

    Presenting your experience as employers in your new country expect.

    With your member card

  5. Employers who value international experience

    Introductions to employers across the network.

    With your member card

  6. Starting a business

    We guide you through registering as self-employed or opening a company.

    With your member card

  7. Routes for young people

    Apprenticeships and vocational training for members’ children.

    With your member card

Everyday savings

The weekly shop, the tank of fuel, the travel pass, the meal out: small sums, every week, for every household. This is where the law of large numbers is felt first.

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  1. Groceries

    Terms we negotiate on the weekly shop.

    With your member card

  2. Foods from home

    Specialist grocers and importers who stock what your kitchen needs.

    With your member card

  3. Fuel and public transport

    For drivers, and for households that live by the travel pass.

    With your member card

  4. Home energy

    Electricity and heating: a household’s largest regular bill.

    With your member card

  5. Restaurants and cafés

    Eating out, including at the restaurants of our own communities.

    With your member card

  6. Clothing and household

    From school uniforms to a first set of furniture.

    With your member card

Family, education & elder care

Many of our households are split: children at school in one country, parents growing old in another. Our family programmes are designed for both ends of that line.

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  1. Childcare and school places

    We guide you through nursery, enrolment and the school year in a new country.

    With your member card

  2. Mother-tongue classes

    So that children keep the language of their grandparents.

    With your member card

  3. University and study abroad

    Guidance on applications, recognition of school-leaving certificates and student life.

    With your member card

  4. Elder care at a distance

    Arranging care for parents in another country, and staying informed.

    With your member card

  5. Elder care in Europe

    For members growing old far from where they were born.

    With your member card

  6. Summer at home

    Programmes for children who spend the long holiday with family abroad.

    With your member card

End of life & repatriation

When someone dies far from home, the family faces decisions, costs and paperwork in two countries at once. We arrange what must be arranged, with care, and the community stands beside them.

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  1. Repatriation of remains

    We arrange the return to the country of origin, with the documents both countries require.

    With your member card

  2. Burial or cremation in Europe

    A dignified farewell where the family lives, in keeping with its faith and custom.

    With your member card

  3. Funeral cover

    Through licensed providers, so that the cost does not fall on the family.

    With your member card

  4. Bereavement travel

    Help for close relatives who must travel at once.

    With your member card

  5. Paperwork in two countries

    We guide the family through certificates, the consulate, pensions and accounts.

    With your member card

  6. The Mutual Aid Compact

    Associations standing together when a member dies far from home. Solidarity, not insurance.

    With your member card

Free to everyone

The guides, Scam Watch, the Consular Desk and free help near you need no card at all: they are open to members and to everyone else, in every language of this site. The association network is open to every community association, at no cost for its first 90 days.

  1. Guides

    Country-by-country orientation on the formalities of arriving, moving and returning.

    Free to everyone

  2. Scam Watch

    The frauds that target people far from home, and how to check before you pay.

    Free to everyone

  3. Consular Desk

    How to reach your consulate, what to bring, what it can and cannot do.

    Free to everyone

  4. Free help near you

    The free local services to look for, wherever in Europe you live.

    Free to everyone

  5. The association network

    Community associations join at no cost for their first 90 days and take a seat in the European network.

    Free to everyone

For providers

Offer a programme to our members.

Carriers, banks, insurers, schools, clinics and employers who wish to serve the members of TAS Europe work with TAS Member Services, which negotiates and runs the programmes for every house of the family.

TAS Member Services

Questions

Questions about benefits.

How do I use a benefit?

With your member card. The card on your phone carries a code that identifies you as a member of TAS Europe; each programme tells you where to show it or enter it.

Who provides the programmes?

TAS Member Services, the sister organisation that negotiates and runs the benefit programmes for every house of the family, together with providers in each country. Insurance is offered only through licensed providers, under their own terms.

Are the programmes the same in every country?

The twelve areas are the same across Europe. Within each area, programmes are arranged country by country, because health systems, banks, insurers and carriers are national. Your card shows the programmes for the country where you live.

Does my family benefit too?

Yes. Every adult in the household holds a card, and children under 18 are included on a parent’s membership. Several programmes are designed for relatives who visit, and for parents in another country.

Do you give legal, tax or financial advice?

No. We guide, we refer and we negotiate. Legal and document help means referral to qualified professionals; our guides are general information; and membership is not insurance.

Join us — or serve with us.

Membership is free for the first 90 days — one membership per adult, with children under 18 included on a parent’s membership. And if you wish to give your time to your community, there is a place for you.

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