Kuwait: Insurers to set health premiums for relatives of expats
Source: Middle East Insurance Review | Jul 2017
Insurers will be allowed to set the premiums for health insurance policies for other relatives of expats besides their spouses and children. The relatives could be parents or siblings.
Assistant Undersecretary for Citizenship and Passport Affairs at the Ministry of the Interior, Major- General Sheikh Mazen Al-Jarrah, held a meeting in June to discuss ways to codify family residency for expats other than spouses and children, reported Arab Times Online.
A security source said one of the proposals discussed at the meeting is that the Ministry of Interior will give insurers the right to estimate the cost of health insurance annually for persons other than the spouse and children.
This will be done by taking into account the cost of insurance per elderly person which can be up to KWD3,000 (US$9,881) annually. On this basis, insurers will determine the insurance cost which may reach an average of KWD300 per person per annum, in addition to the annual residence fees estimated at KWD200.
Parents and siblings of expats can renew their residence visas, subject to certain controls such as mandatory health insurance and medical treatment at private hospitals. M
KWD1 = US$3.29