perscription exemption?

cagneyfan

I agree that you shouldn't judge all drug addicts for the reasons just said.
I think for me, what's annoying is the total unfairness of prescription charges. People automatically assume that you get them free if on benefits. Not true, and the daft thing is that someone on Job Seekers (fit) gets free prescriptions. But someone on Incapacity Ben (with no Income Support - and obviously unfit and in need of prescriptions has tp pay!).
I knew someone who got both IB with IS - had over £145 a week and got free prescriptions. I got IB with no IS - had approx £90 a week and had to pay??
It's not the claimants fault - it's the flaming system - it makes no sense

NASA_2

mandy-j0 wrote: »

I agree that you shouldn't judge all drug addicts for the reasons just said.
I think for me, what's annoying is the total unfairness of prescription charges. People automatically assume that you get them free if on benefits. Not true, and the daft thing is that someone on Job Seekers (fit) gets free prescriptions. But someone on Incapacity Ben (with no Income Support - and obviously unfit and in need of prescriptions has tp pay!).
I knew someone who got both IB with IS - had over £145 a week and got free prescriptions. I got IB with no IS - had approx £90 a week and had to pay??
It's not the claimants fault - it's the flaming system - it makes no sense

It makes perrfect sense - you had more money coming in than you would have been allowed on means tested benefits and that is why you dont get them free - someone entitled to JSA(C) at the same rate or higher rate than JSA(IB) does not get free prescriptions either. Its a lie to say that they do.

cagneyfan

It must be me (thick) but I just don't understand your reply. On the back of a prescription form it clearly states that someone on Jobseekers gets free prescriptions. With regards to the example I gave about myself and another person. I had £55 a week less and yet had the same kind of situation (bills, running a flat etc) but I had to pay and she didn't. I don't know how she got IS and I didn't as our situation seemed very similar.
I think the point I was trying to make was that you can be in a very similar situation, but for some reason have very different entitlements regarding benefit, yet the one with less money has to pay ( which then makes you in a financial worse state than the other especially if you have to buy 2 or 3 prescriptions).