Student Dental Charges

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The receipt bit is CRUCIAL! For eg prescription charges etc you must ask AT THE TIME for a receipt for anHC2 application. You cannot get this receipt retrospectively. They (doctor, dentist etc) will then give you a special form (can't remember it's number but it is BROWN) to attach the receipt to and send back to get a refund once your application for help (which is what your HC1 form is) is sorted. However, in terms of how much money you have, remember that eg mini cash ISA's are non declarable in most situations (IR don't want to know about them!) and so that could be the best way to take any small savings you have out of the equation. Also student jobs do not need to be declared either provided they are hjust that. Not even your LEA takes those into account PROVIDED you have not put the income from a student job onto your application form. Please read between the lines a bit. All honest but sometimes better to work with the system!!

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Also note that if you do get an HC2 certificate, you may still have to pay a contribution towards the cost of each course treatment, based on the results of your assessment (e.g. mine is about £40).

This works a bit like an insurance excess. If the course of treatment is less than the limit, you have to pay the whole NHS cost. E.g. a checkup and scale/polish costs me about £15 in total. However, if I had to have major work done, I would only pay £40 or whatever the limit is.

My dentist won't treat me as an NHS patient unless I have an HC2 form, in which case I would have to be a private patient and it would cost a *lot* more...so I have to apply for a form each year even though I don't directly benefit from it.