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UC prescription costs
Question raised in the UC work being done by Cit A, wonder if anyone has any ideas who to approach It appears the tick boxes on the back of prescriptions still don’t have an UC option. Client was refused free prescriptions despite being entitled. I know it’s only been 4 years since UC started…but you think by now….
i wondered that myself a few weeks ago as i happened to be reading the back of one of my own scrips… bizarre.
presumably it’s a Department of Health issue but I will feed that back via operational stakehoders
The HC1 (England) version
http://www.nhs.uk/Healthcosts/Documents/HC1 Front Page.pdf excludes Universal Credit as a benefit which passports to exemption from health costs. (You will need to copy the whole web address to display the page. The system doesn’t cope with a space in the address.)
The Scottish version
http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/HealthCosts/Documents/HealthCosts/HC1_Scotland.pdf makes it clear that UC gives entitlement to full help with health costs. Does this apply only in Scotland?