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Important answers to your insurance questions:

Our travel purposefully blog

Our very popular Glossary of Insurance Terms – While we try to keep insurance jargon to a minimum at Good Neighbor Insurance, here is a helpful list of common insurance words and definitions in everyday English.

Videos explaining insurance, why we like specific plans, how to save on group insurance and much, much more. You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/gninsurance.

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Ask Jeff - International Insurance Questions and Answers (and money saving tips!)

Thousands of international insurance questions and answers grouped under the following categories:

International insurance questions and answers1. General International Insurance FAQs – Questions and Answers
2. Understanding insurance terminology and plan types
3. Which plan is best for me?
4. How-to use and manage your insurance plan
5. Maternity coverage and benefits
6. Claims – How to file a claim, get reimbursed, answers, more…
7. Insurance for special situations – What do I need? Answers to questions
8. Short-term travel medical insurance
9. Teams: Short-term team plans for groups needing short-term insurance – Answers to questions
10. Group health insurance – For international organizations – How to save, select benefits, and more
11. Term-Life Insurance for those going overseas – Options and answers
12. Understanding rising health and medical costs for international insurance
13. Coming to the USA or Canada – For visiting / those immigrating or returning home – Long-term or short-term
14. Miscellaneous articles 15. Medicare: Parts A, B, C, and D

Ask Jeff – International Insurance questions and answers (and money saving tips!)

Ask Doug - Domestic Insurance questions and answers (and insurance tips)

Doestic health insurance questions and answers
Answers to your domestic health insurance questions grouped under these subjects:

1. Understanding American domestic insurance
2. Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
3. Medicare only covers in the USA
4. Key thoughts about Medicare Parts A, B, C, and D
5. Request information for Medicare supplement coverage
6. Medicare updates
7. Government-assisted health options
8. Federal poverty level chart
9. Travel plans for seniors overseas
10. Shop for ACA-compliant plans in the USA
11. ACA/PPACA Health Laws in the USA
12. ACA/PPACA Health UPDATES

Ask Doug – Domestic Insurance questions and answers (and insurance tips)

Travel Resources

1. FREE e-book: ‘Do you Know The Top 3 Travel Risks?’

2. FREE e-book: The Definitive Guide on Preventing Jet Lag

3. FREE guide on Travel Safety: Travel Safety 101: A Free Guide on “How-to Keep Your Family Safe Overseas

4. Free eBook: Our completely revised and updated Travel Medical Guide!

Group Guides:

1. How to Choose Good Group Insurance and weigh your options

2. Advanced Tips and Techniques to Save on Your Renewal

2b. Advanced Tips and Techniques Companion Workbook

3. How to Run A Sustainable Group Health Plan

4. Self-Funding Your Group Health Insurance

More GNI Resources
  • Get Involved – Various ways to get involved, fair trade products, recommended books, and more. More volunteer opportunities here and for families here. Don’t see your organization or product on this list? Let us know and we’ll look into adding you!
  • Mission Resources – Christian and faith-based mission organizations and volunteer opportunities, missions conferences, mission training resources, prayer guides, apps and more!
  • Non-Profit Resources – Looking for a list of organizations you can volunteer with? Online travel safety courses? Cross-cultural training? language learning? Fundraising ideas and information?
  • Responding to Crisis – Specific pages addressing natural disasters, crises, and how you can respond.
  • Social Good Resources – Social good and Social entrepreneur resources, websites and conferences!
  • Useful Gap Year Links & Information – Gap year resources, volunteer organizations, checklists, and more.
  • Volunteer Opportunities For Families – Opportunities for families wanting to contribute and raise their children with an understanding of giving back. Family-friendly opportunities overseas and at home as well as resources for families.
  • Volunteer Opportunities Overseas – More volunteer opportunities abroad: Health-related, dental and professional, environmental, orphan care, pilots, teachers, doctors, and more. This list is always growing! If you don’t see your organization or resource, let us know at info@gninsurance.com and we’ll consider adding it!
More Medical Resources
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  • FREE Special Printed Reports on Group Insurance (Both in print and eBooks available)
    1. How to Choose Good Group Insurance
    2. Advanced Tips and Techniques to lowering your premiums and annual renewal
      2b. The Companion Workbook to the Advanced Tips and Techniques Guide
    3. Good Stewardship: Sustainability, and How-To Maintain an Efficient/Well-run Health Plan
    4. Self-Funded Health Insurance – Is It For You?
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Other Important Resources As You Travel

CDC Traveler's Health logoTravel Health – CDC Travel’s Health website provides critically up-to-date information about travel and country-specific health updates for those visiting or living overseas, as well as trusted advice on how to stay healthy. The CDC helps you know about the risks and what you can do to protect yourself.

The Yellow Book 2014The 2014 Yellow Book – This trusted travel medical resource is NOW AVAILABLE to purchase as an app for your Android or iOS mobile device! (Also see CDC’s Free Travel Well app.)

CDC 2014 – The Yellow Book for iOS | CDC 2014 – The Yellow Book for Android
Or access the 2014 Yellow Book Free Online:
Table of Contents | About the Yellow Book | Updates to the online Yellow Book

Overseas Security Advisory Council logoForeign Travel Safety Briefings – Overseas Security Advisory Council this government inter-agency site provides much needed by country travel safety briefings and daily news (regarding incidents and threats overseas) as a public service and partnership promoting security and cooperation between American private sector interests worldwide and the U.S. Department of State. The OSAC invites all U.S. businesses, academia, faith-based groups, and non-governmental organizations to become constituents at no cost.

logo of the Expat ExchangeExpat Advice | Help – ExpatExchange.com is a network that helps provide free information and a forum to those living overseas or new to their host country. As well as helping provide advice on moving and support of others similarly living overseas and sharing in its struggles and joys. Everyone is invited to participate.

Lonely Planet thorn tree forumTravel news | information – Thorn Tree forums at Lonely Planet (owned by Nashville-based media company, NC2 Media) is one of the biggest and oldest travel forums in the world, by travelers, for travelers, and covers every place on the planet (even places Lonely Planet doesn’t have guidebooks for).
Fellow travelers exchange travel information, advice, and tips. Since 1996 this community of independent travelers have been sharing trusted advice to help others.

We would like your help. We currently have an essential travel apps page, as well as a must-have medical apps page on our site. But is there one “must-have” app that stands head-and-shoulders above the rest as THE, “if-you-only-had-one” travel app? What do you think? What should it be? As a client, what do you think is the best app for helping travelers and overseas workers, serves them free, and is the most useful/helps them stay safe?

You can also check out our Friends of GNI page here.

Help with The IRS and Filing Taxes Overseas as an Expatriate

ACA/PPACA health laws and expatriates / overseas workers – What you need to know

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