Prescription help

daisy65

Hello, can anyone tell me if my husband is on jobseekers £36 pound a week and i get incapacity benefit £100 pound a week do i have to pay for my scripts? xxx

McKneff

How come he only gets £36 a week, thats about half of of what JSA is.

daisy65

McKneff wrote: »

How come he only gets £36 a week, thats about half of of what JSA is.

It goes down to that amount after 6 months, i'm so worried i normally buy a pre payment certificate but now his jsa has dropped i havent got the money. xx

McKneff

I think there is a form you can fill in because of low income, but whether you are low enough now I dont know.
ESA and JSA amounts to about £175 a week then, do yu have children, and so child benefit payments.
Do you have any other benefits.

daisy65

No other benefits other than what i have put. x

No children no.

PipsoG

I assume that the reduction you are talking about is the fact that your husband got Contribution Based JSA for 6 months and then changed over to Income Based JSA and that your Incapacity Benefit of £91.40 per week is deducted from his Income Based JSA entitlement.

Why not try "Turn to Us" website to get a benefits check to make sure that he is getting the correct amount.

http://www.turn2us.org.uk/benefits_search.aspx

If he is getting Income Based JSA then it should get free prescriptions for you both. If not you need to complete a form HC11 Health Costs

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Diol1/DoItOnline/DG_4018302

nikiwitch

i work in apharmacy and incapacity doesnt automatically entitle you to help, you need to fill in a low income form (available from pharmacies, opticians etc) and send it off, most people we get come in on IB are entitled this way

daisy65

Goodness this is so confusing, i cant sleep with worrying, we havent ever been in this predicament before, i dont know whether i pay for the dentist, scripts whatever, thank you i shall try and fathom it out.xx

daisy65

nikiwitch wrote: »

i work in apharmacy and incapacity doesnt automatically entitle you to help, you need to fill in a low income form (available from pharmacies, opticians etc) and send it off, most people we get come in on IB are entitled this way

Yes i have incapacity benefit until next year but always buy a prepayment certificate which is fine, but now his jsa has dropped i cant afford the certificate. xx

Mojisola

nikiwitch wrote: »

i work in apharmacy and incapacity doesnt automatically entitle you to help, you need to fill in a low income form (available from pharmacies, opticians etc) and send it off, most people we get come in on IB are entitled this way

The form is very easy to fill in. Get one as soon as you can and send it off.

McKneff

Just try to remember, you pay for everything until told (after you have sent youre form off and had a reply) not to.

Dont know if it makes any differences but keep receipts for prescriptions etc. just in case you can back claim. It should say so in the reply that you get.

Good luck