Healthy Start Scheme
(asked on 9th March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing Healthy Start prepaid cards to be used for (a) online and (b) telephone purchases of food items covered by that scheme.
This question was answered on 15th March 2022
All beneficiaries with a prepaid card can use it in all retailers which accept Mastercard payments and sell the permitted Healthy Start food items. There are no current plans to allow the prepaid card to be used online or for telephone purchases.