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Prescription Charges

I am sure this will have been covered before but I searched and found nothing.

When you are at Uni do you have to pay prescription charges?

Reply 1

tbm

13

I have to pay for all of mine, except for contraception.

Reply 2

Lottie

9

In Wales, you don't pay for prescriptions until you are 25 years old.

Reply 3

blissy

15

You don't pay for contraception.

If you're a student use the HC1 form (available from doctors or dentists) to apply for a HC2 exemption certificate. They're there for people with low income and you get free prescriptions, eye vouchers and some dental care. You have to have less than a certain amount of savings (either 8 or 16 thousand) but a lot of students are eligible for the HC2 certificate.

Reply 4

Aspect

2

If you're in full time education, you don't pay.

That's what I always thought.

Reply 5

SianyLou

10

Above is true...except it's not that simple. You have to fill in the HC1 to prove ur income..

Reply 6

sanka

OP

Just found this on the NUS website:

http://resource.nusonline.co.uk/media/resource/Information%20Sheet%2021.pdf

looks like you can be eligible for free prescriptions but it is means tested. You don't have to take your parents income into account but I think you have to declare what they give you while you are at Uni. I have sent off for one anyway

Reply 7

JackieS

11

sanka

Just found this on the NUS website:

http://resource.nusonline.co.uk/media/resource/Information%20Sheet%2021.pdf

looks like you can be eligible for free prescriptions but it is means tested. You don't have to take your parents income into account but I think you have to declare what they give you while you are at Uni. I have sent off for one anyway

it is definitely means tested - you have to declare your student loan and any bursaries you get. With a student loan of 2500, an NHS bursary of 2500 and savings of 4000 they declared that I earn too much!

Reply 8

Smile04

1

I think it only classes the full time education it as when you were in High school. However I get all my prescriptions free now as I have an underactive thyroid.

Reply 9

PinkPig

If you're 18 (or under) and at university then prescriptions are free - once you're 19, they are only free if you have an HC2 charges certificate. You may or may not qualify for one of these - if you just go to a chemist and ask if you need to pay, the answer will be yes.

Reply 10

RachelBabyfrog

14

I applied for one, but because my parents pay my rent and I have enough savings to cover my tuition fees, and I get a student loan... I have to pay.

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