jsa dentist bill advice

LadyMissA

t0rt0ise wrote: »

People on contribution based JSA can apply for free treatment under the low income scheme. It's done like that because some people on contribution JSA have savings and are therefore not entitled to free treatment whereas people on income based JSA have already had their savings level checked.

how do people on contribution jsa have savings? I had and still have no savings at all and even on income based JSA you can have savings!

t0rt0ise

LadyMissA wrote: »

how do people on contribution jsa have savings?

Of course some do. If you've been working for years and saved money and then become unemployed you can get contribution JSA for six months but if you've got over £16,000 saved you won't get free dental treatment or any other benefits, and after the 6 months you won't get JSA either.

It happened to me like that anyway!

LadyMissA

t0rt0ise wrote: »

Of course some do. If you've been working for years and saved money and then become unemployed you can get contribution JSA for six months but if you've got over £16,000 saved you won't get free dental treatment or any other benefits, and after the 6 months you won't get JSA either.

It happened to me like that anyway!

But to get INCOME based JSA you only need to be 1 week short in two years NI which could be when you changed jobs maybe and took a week off so it is not fair at all.

They could have more money then me and I have no savings.

It is totally unfair. Who the hell has £16k? I didn't even have £6 when I left my job

LadyMissA

you say in income based they check your savings and you can have up to £16k but they dont see that you have NO savings at all on contribution based therefore someone who is only 1 week short in NI over the two year period can still have £15,999 savings and get ALL free dentist and prescriptions and someone on contribution based could have the same or nothing at all and get nothing and have to get in debt to go to the dentist and doctors. And no you can't apply for a low income exemption cause if that was the case they would just give it to all of us

t0rt0ise

LadyMissA wrote: »

you say in income based they check your savings and you can have up to £16k but they dont see that you have NO savings at all on contribution based therefore someone who is only 1 week short in NI over the two year period can still have £15,999 savings and get ALL free dentist and prescriptions and someone on contribution based could have the same or nothing at all and get nothing and have to get in debt to go to the dentist and doctors. And no you can't apply for a low income exemption cause if that was the case they would just give it to all of us

If you're on contribution based JSA with no savings then you apply for Low Income NHS help. This has already been said. Apply for it and you will get free dentistry and free prescriptions etc.

http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/1125.aspx

LadyMissA

t0rt0ise wrote: »

If you're on contribution based JSA with no savings then you apply for Low Income NHS help. This has already been said. Apply for it and you will get free dentistry and free prescriptions etc.

http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/1125.aspx

I am asking how it is fair as it is obviously not and no I couldnt get and help as the job centre told me - bit late now

Plus why would anyone on JSA have to apply for it , you should just get it. Dont make sense that

t0rt0ise

It does make perfect sense. Anyone on JSA of any sort who has less than 16 grand savings will get free stuff. If you were told you wouldn't then you were misinformed. You should have been told to apply for an exemption certificate and you would have got free treatment. You have to apply because you have to show that you've got less than the 16 grand savings, and although you can't believe it, a lot of people do actually have savings.

LadyMissA

t0rt0ise wrote: »

It does make perfect sense. Anyone on JSA of any sort who has less than 16 grand savings will get free stuff. If you were told you wouldn't then you were misinformed. You should have been told to apply for an exemption certificate and you would have got free treatment. You have to apply because you have to show that you've got less than the 16 grand savings, and although you can't believe it, a lot of people do actually have savings.

so tell me what the difference is here

Example 1: person one on contribution JSA with £2k savings gets nothing

Example 2: person on income based JSA with £10k savings gets it free

Yet person 1 has to apply to get it - thats a joke

It should ALL be means tested from the begining

And no I can't believe it as I know no one who has savings at all

Yes I have NOT been informed about a lot of things like travel to interviews etc and half price travel etc

jazabelle

LadyMissA - because person one on Contributions JSA gets it automatically due to having paid the contributions, but could in actual fact have thousands in savings. Person two has just been means tested to get Income Based, already proving they aren't rich, therefore gets it automatically.

And the contributions based person can opt to take a means test as well, to get that added entitlement.

It makes perfect sense.

It's annoying you weren't told, but most people aren't I'm afraid and have to research it themselves.

LadyMissA

jazabelle wrote: »

LadyMissA - because person one on Contributions JSA gets it automatically due to having paid the contributions, but could in actual fact have thousands in savings. Person two has just been means tested to get Income Based, already proving they aren't rich, therefore gets it automatically.

And the contributions based person can opt to take a means test as well, to get that added entitlement.

It makes perfect sense.

It's annoying you weren't told, but most people aren't I'm afraid and have to research it themselves.

how can having £16k prove you arent rich LOL

It proves that paying NI and working does not pay as people who contribute nothing get everything