kohlerias wrote:If you are the principal applicant, and have applied as an 'Investor' or a 'Pensionado', are under 55, approx. US$442 is what a Rentista or Investor may be required to pay...not a Pensionado .
If you are the principal applicant, and have applied as an 'Investor' or a 'Pensionado', are over 55, approx. US$220 is what a Rentista or Investor may be required to pay...not a Pensionado .
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This scale below was copied from Costa Rica Law, and is dated 1st Aug. 2015
"For 2015 the amounts in USD is what is required to be paid are as follows, according to this sliding scale:
From $343.50 to $1,060.99 5.35%
From $1,060.99 to $2,121.98 6.24%
From $2,121.98 to $3,182.97 8.02%
Above $3,182.97 10.69%
The scale is set forth below in colones (₡ ) as provided to us by the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social'.
Your premium will be determined by the staff at your local CCSS/CAJA office and thepremiums seem to differ with each office, so there is no 'guarantee', that this is what you end up paying.
Thanks for this info. I understand that no one can guarantee what we will pay but there is a ball park amount it seems, and I was alarmed when it was written "Pensionados do have a lower CAJA rate than Investors or Rentistas, and if either of these principal applicants are under 55, they have been known to have to pay approx. US$450".
So the above sentence was (I think - tell me if I'm wrong) misinterpreted by me to mean that a pensionado applicant under 55 could pay $450. I now (think I) understand this to mean that an investor or Rentista could pay that much; not a pensionado.
And by Principal applicant, did you mean only the person with the pension, not the wife or husband of the person with the pension?
So if the person applying for pensionado is over 55 but the wife is not, then the "over 55" rule would not affect the pensionado nor his wife's CAJA amount, right?
THe way the sentence read - to me - was somewhat confusing.
So as I understand it now, if my pension is $1300 a month my wife and I would pay somewhere around 6.24% of that which would be $81. Is that $81 each or is that $81 total?
I am somewhat confused when it is said that an amount cannot be determined - that it is up to the individual at MY CAJA office. Yet the scale given in the post above states a percentage. Is the percentage NOT a law or hard and fast rule? How can there be a % yet it is not used? (Just a "Tico thing"? i.e. there is a rule but it doesn't have to be followed)