Universal Credit

(asked on 26th June 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to (a) free prescriptions, (b) free eye tests and (c) free dental care to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 3rd July 2014

The cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to free prescriptions, eye tests and dental care to all claimants of Universal Credit once Universal Credit has been fully rolled out will depend on the number of claimants at that time. This number will depend on a range of factors. The Government intends that broadly the same number of individuals will be passported via Universal Credit as are currently passported.

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