NHS Exemption Card....haven't received mine yet

Jummy
Jummy Posts: 692 Forumite
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Hi:)
My partner and i receive WTC and CTC and our income is below 15,000.
I have not received our exemption cards yet and just wondered if any of you are still waiting for yours.
I have a dentist appointment this week and haven't got a card to show them,so I'm wondering if they might make me pay for my treatment.
Can i just show the dentist my award letter for now until the cards arrive?
:)
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  • kenshaz
    kenshaz Posts: 3,155 Forumite
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    Yes,but it depends on him or her if they accept it
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  • Purdy_1
    Purdy_1 Posts: 756 Forumite
    Mine arrived on Tuesday. Yours maybe on its way.
  • Astaroth
    Astaroth Posts: 5,444 Forumite
    I have medical exemption (rather than financial) and whilst I waited for my card to arrive I was told to pay and keep the receipts for reclaiming the costs afterwards... I dont know if it would be the same for financial exemption
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  • madhouse
    madhouse Posts: 390 Forumite
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    I phoned them a couple of weeks ago to say I'd not received it and they sent it out straight away. It took a week to be delivered.
  • Scarlett1
    Scarlett1 Posts: 6,887 Forumite
    where do you get the excemption cards from ? when I have treatment I sign a form for excemption so having a card would be easier :)
  • Becles
    Becles Posts: 13,164 Forumite
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    I got one even though my circumstances have changed and I'm no longer entitled to free prescriptions :confused:

    I phoned up and just got told to destroy it.
    Here I go again on my own....
  • Chrysalis
    Chrysalis Posts: 4,154 Forumite
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    you talking about hc2 certs?
  • olgadapolga
    olgadapolga Posts: 2,273 Forumite
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    If you ring their helpline 0845 609 9299, they will give you the new certificate numbers which you can then give to the dentist/pharmacist etc.

    I rang them yesterday to ask if our cards had been sent out and was told the above and advised that that the certificates should be with us by mid-July . . . they turned up in this morning's post (letter was dated 28th May though!).
  • pinchez
    pinchez Posts: 62 Forumite
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    My partner and I have one child and earn £24000 a year we are also in receipt of WTC and CTC.

    Would we be able to get a NHS Exemption Card and free dental treatment?
  • sandhabibi
    sandhabibi Posts: 421 Forumite
    pinchez wrote:
    My partner and I have one child and earn £24000 a year we are also in receipt of WTC and CTC.

    Would we be able to get a NHS Exemption Card and free dental treatment?
    I believe you have to have earnings under £15k a year.
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