Dental Services
(asked on 15th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if fewer or more claimants of universal credit will be eligible for free dental care than were under the legacy benefits systems.
This question was answered on 20th November 2017
The Department’s aim is to broadly align entitlement to help with health costs (including free National Health Service prescriptions and free NHS dental treatment) for Universal Credit recipients with those in place for the relevant legacy benefits. This is achieved by passporting Universal Credit recipients to free help with health costs where their income falls below a given earnings threshold.