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Can I Get With Prescription Costs?
BillieTheBot
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I finish school June 22nd. If I get any prescriptions after that date and am not employed for whatever reason, can I get help with prescription costs?
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http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Policyandguidance/Medicinespharmacyandindustry/Prescriptions/NHScosts/index.htm
TBH I'm fed up with looking at the most non-user friendly site that I have ever had the misfortune to have to use. I've linked to NHS Charges section, you can wade through the rest!
Ask about it at a pharmacy, they often have them. You have to fill it in and send it off and then wait to be assessed. In the meantime you have to pay but you'll need to ask for a special receipt which you can then use to claim it back.
If you're not eligible and you get more than 5 prescription items in 4 months then you are best off buying a prepayment certificate. It's a bit like a season ticket.
Although tbh, most people stick with the in education thing until the end of the school year.
Thanks.
Once or twice, I've only used a few of the tablets I've been prescribed. Can I get a refund if I don't use all of them?
I dunno why but I found that really funny
Something which was a bit out of order, people who are on the dole get free (or at least discounted, I forget) prescriptions. However after me and my sis were born, my mum done the whole stay at home with no job and raise us thing. She had to pay for hers, yet she wouldn't if she was signed on. Logic?
Antibiotics treat bacteria, they are naff all use against viruses. It's a key point that a lot of people don't understand or forget.
I couldn't because the silly doctor gave me something with lactose in (which I'm intolernt to) even though he knew I couldn't have it.
Yeah, but you also have a thyroid condition
What was she living on if she stayed at home to look after you?
If you are going to university next year then you can get free prescriptions whilst you are in full-time education and 18 so you can keep claiming until your 19th birthday.
If you are going to be looking for a job you could sign on whilst you are looking as if you get income-based jobseekers allowance you automatically get free prescriptions.
True... but at least it saves me some money
You do automatically get free prescriptions whilst pregnant and for the first year after giving birth.
People on income-based Job seekers allowance or Income Support get free prescriptions. People on contribution based JSA or Incapicity benefit don't automatically get free prescriptions but may be able to get free prescriptions with an exemption certificate due to low income. Some stay at home mothers would qualify for one of these too (but not if you have more than £8,000 of savings) but they might not have been invented when your mother was at home as I think they are quite a recent thing.
That won't help and I doubt that's the cause of my current mystery illness.
I won't be going to uni next year. I've decided that I really need to take a break in September as this last year has been too stressful for me.
You can fill out a form to see if you qualify. I did this form whilst I was at university but found that I was only entitled to free wigs or something like that. (I have no need for a wig incase anyone wondered). But it depends on your income, your loan entitlement and savings (if you've got more than £8000 in savings you don't get it). You might get it.
Can't remember where I read it, but I'm sure I read somewhere it was 16k and not 8k?
I won't be looking for a job - at least not straight away and not until my health has improved.
The limit might have changed since I applied for it as it was a few years ago, so if you read that somewhere you are probably right
If you are in ill health and this is what's stopping you entering employment you could ask your GP (or specialist if you have one) to sign you off as then you could claim benefits and get free prescriptions (assuming you'd be on income support).