Not everyone getting Universal Credit is entitled to help with their health costs. You are only entitled to claim for help with health costs if your total take-home pay for your household in your last Universal Credit assessment period was below a specific amount. Your household's total take-home pay (the net income earned by everyone in your household after tax, National Insurance, and pensions are deducted) must be:
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What the official page says
Not everyone getting Universal Credit is entitled to help with their health costs. You are only entitled to claim for help with health costs if your total take-home pay for your household in your last Universal Credit assessment period was below a specific amount. Your household's total take-home pay (the net income earned by everyone in your household after tax, National Insurance, and pensions are deducted) must be:
Not everyone getting Universal Credit is entitled to help with their health costs.
You are only entitled to claim for help with health costs if your total take-home pay for your household in your last Universal Credit assessment period was below a specific amount.
Your household's total take-home pay (the net income earned by everyone in your household after tax, National Insurance, and pensions are deducted) must be:
If you claim Universal Credit as a couple, the take-home pay limit applies to the joint income of you and your partner.
If your working hours and income change it’s important to regularly check if you are entitled.
The last assessment period is the one that ended immediately before the date you made your claim.
- £935 or less if your Universal Credit payment includes an element for a child or you had limited capability for work
- free NHS prescriptions
- free NHS dental treatment
- free NHS sight tests
- free NHS wigs and fabric supports
- help with the cost of glasses or contact lenses
- refunds of necessary travel costs to receive NHS treatment
- NHS Help with Health Costs Facebook
- NHS Help with Health Costs Twitter
- Free NHS prescriptions poster (73.06kB)
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.
What to do
- Open the official source and confirm the wording and any amounts.
- If thresholds, PPC prices, or PCN rules changed, update the evergreen guides.
- Edit this draft for clarity, then Publish.
Official source
https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/hwhc-universal-credit
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