We went to the SGK office on Monday and were told roughly the same as what Kingsley has been told. The frustrating thing for us is that we just applied to go on the system in September, they accepted me on the system and told us to come back in one month to add Charlie on. We duly went back on the 5th, found out what we had to pay and then went to Vakif bank and paid the subscription. When we went back to the SGK office with the receipt we were advised not to delay on putting Charlie on as if we waited too long he would not be able to go on. It sounded like that the system was going to be closing again but would re-open in January.
We went to the Consul on Monday, got the documents that we thought they required and went to the SGK office to do what we thought would be a rubber stamp exercise. No, because Charlie has a pension from the UK he is not entitled to be on the system. We were also told about this document that Kingsley is speaking about, and were advised that every person who is a member of the scheme would have to provide this. If they could not provide it the insurance would be cancelled, but none of the staff, including the manager, could tell us where to get this document nor what it should contain.
The goal posts seem to move several times a day over this system!