Social security coordination makes it possible for exchange students to exercise (to an extend that is necessary) the right to social security equally as host country's students do. In the light of mandatory health insurance this means that exchange students can assert their right to medical assistance to the same extend as insured people of host country. It should be noted that healthcare as such can only be provided in a public healthcare institutions. In the private ones, on the other hand, the payment is required. Students can then request the reimbursement of the healthcare expenses in their own country. In case of not being a part of any mandatory healthcare insurance at all, student must purchase one in a host country. The following is also obligatory when students are being part of compulsory practical part of studies, or when they apply for any kind of student work. The payment of family benefits, which the students are entitled to, depends on their residence, which remains the same during the exchange. The key principle, when putting social security rights into force, still remains the capability of students' (and their family members') self-sufficiency, for the purposes of not putting any burden on social security system of the host country.
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