UC /LCWRA now have to pay for dental treatment

the Dentist practice I have been going to for years have a big poster at reception stating that if you are on receipt of UC and LCW or LCWAR receive more that £935 a month you are not entitled to free dental treatment. at the end of the poster you have Labour saying "Opening up Work"

After treatment you usually sign a statement saying you received treatment, this time was an extra page asking what benefits you were on. So I reckon that this will be checked and bills being sent out.

As it stands I will most likely loose my LCWRA and PIP.

Life is just peachy.

Hi, I have followed the link and read all the NHS stuff. It does not mention taxis. For a patient on UC, receiving treatment for Stage 4 cancer at a hospital near another town [that local hospital cannot offer], where there is no train service, and the coach service goes nowhere near the out-of-town hospital site, does anyone have experience of whether they will pay for a taxi or not?
£75 each way has to be paid by the bank of mum and dad. The patient has severe bone pain [on Zomorph AND Oromorph] due to the cancer, which makes walking further than vehicle into clinic, or standing eg at bus stops nigh impossible. Appointments often 7am or 8am. Does not have a wheelchair. And has extreme fatigue.
Thanks for any help,
Denby

Denby,

Two things spring to mind.
1.
We have a community transport scheme, which offers hospital travel at a very reduced rate a taxi was quoted as £102 and the transport scheme was £22 door to door, and they waited.
2
www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/help-with-health...l-costs-scheme-htcs/ Check with the hospital, our oncology ward was very helpful in facilitating the right route to make travel cost claims.

poppylouise32 wrote:

the Dentist practice I have been going to for years have a big poster at reception stating that if you are on receipt of UC and LCW or LCWAR receive more that £935 a month you are not entitled to free dental treatment. at the end of the poster you have Labour saying "Opening up Work" After treatment you usually sign a statement saying you received treatment, this time was an extra page asking what benefits you were on. So I reckon that this will be checked and bills being sent out. As it stands I will most likely loose my LCWRA and PIP. Life is just peachy.

Apologies if I have misunderstood the context of your reply.

The £935 a month refers to take home pay which I take to mean take home pay from employment.

On the NHS checker on gov.uk, to help determine if you can get help with NHS costs, one of the questions is to do with take home pay and it specifically states the following with regards to take home pay and LCW / LCWRA:

As part of your Universal Credit, do you have any of these?

Responsibility for a child or young person who lives with you
Limited capability for work (LCW)
Limited capability for work and work related activity (LCWRA)

If YES is answered the next screen asks

Was your take-home pay for your last Universal Credit period £935 or less?

Take-home pay is used to work out your Universal Credit payments.

If you don't work, your take-home pay will be £0.

Answering YES (take home pay was less than £935) then leads to the next screen:

Because you get Universal Credit and your take-home pay was less than £935.00:
You get free:

NHS prescriptions
NHS dental check-ups and treatment
sight tests
NHS wigs and fabric supports

You get money off:

new glasses or contact lenses
repairing or replacing your glasses or contact lenses
travel for NHS treatment


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As above: "If you don't work, your take-home pay will be £0".

It's for this reason I believe that the amount of UC you get isn't the deciding factor, it's your actual take home pay (presumably from employment)

Again, aplogies if I've misunderstood what you were posting but I think you may have been thinking if your actual UC exceeds £935 per month (with LCW/LCWRA) then you would have to pay dental treatment costs. I don't think this is the case.