Help with health costs if you are getting certain benefits

You do not automatically get help with health costs if you get:

• Pension Credit Savings Credit on its own
• New Style Jobseeker’s Allowance
• New Style Employment and Support Allowance
• Personal Independence Payment
• Attendance Allowance

These benefits have been abolished and no longer entitle you to help with health costs:

• Income Support
• income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
• income-related Employment and Support Allowance

You could get help:

• if you're aged 60 or over
• if you're aged 19 or under
• if you have certain medical conditions
• if you're pregnant or had a baby in the last year
• from Veterans UK

Or you could get help through the NHS Low Income Scheme.

You're entitled to help with health costs if you get either:

• Pension Credit Guarantee Credit
• Pension Credit Guarantee Credit with Savings Credit

If you get either of these, you're entitled to:

• free NHS prescriptions
• free NHS dental treatment
• free NHS sight tests
• free NHS wigs and fabric supports
• help towards the cost of glasses or contact lenses
• help towards travel costs to receive NHS treatment 

If you get Universal Credit, you might be entitled to help with health costs. This depends on your total take-home pay in your last assessment period.

Find out if Universal Credit entitles you to help with health costs.