If you receive Universal Credit, you may also qualify for help with health costs.
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Help with health costs for people getting Universal Credit
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If you receive Universal Credit, you may also qualify for help with health costs.
Help with health costs for people getting Universal Credit
If you receive Universal Credit, you may also qualify for help with health costs.
Find out about Universal Credit from GOV.UK.
You qualify for help with health costs if, on the date you claim, you either:
If you're part of a couple, the total take-home pay threshold applies to your household's total take-home pay.
You should present a copy of your Universal Credit award notice to prove your entitlement. You'll need to have met the eligibility criteria in the last completed Universal Credit assessment period before your health costs arose. The NHS Business Services Authority provides an online eligibility checker.
- receive Universal Credit and either had no earnings or had total take-home pay of £435 or less in your last Universal Credit assessment period
- receive Universal Credit, which includes an element for a child, or you (or your partner) had limited capability for work (LCW) or limited capability for work and work-related activity (LCWRA), and you either had no earnings or total take-home pay of £935 or less in your last Universal Credit assessment period
- your Universal Credit claim is still being assessed
- you're waiting for a decision about your Universal Credit claim that might change the threshold that applies to you
- you're uncertain whether your earnings are within the threshold
Who it may affect
Anyone claiming NHS help with health costs, Universal Credit free prescriptions, PPC holders, or people with an NHSBSA enquiry letter / PCN — check whether the page change applies to your situation.
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Captured 2026-08-10 00:02 UTC by NHS Fine Help watcher.