benefit for students

[musicmummy]

Hi My daughter who is twenty and in her second year at uni in Scotland has to pay her dentist bills which today were quite expensive and she still needs more work done.
Is she entitled to any assistance with these bills?
She stays at home with me and i get working and child tax credit but only for my son,

[musicmummy]

can anyone help?

[Petal~flower]

this may help

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20 080605012430AAjBKHq

[musicmummy]

Thank you petal flower, i shall get her to pick up a form next time shes in. x K

[bednobs]

tbh, im not sure about scotland, as it may well be different to england. Was it an nhs dentist she saw? In England you would nly pay �198 maximum for any course of NHS treatment, no matter what that course of treatment or how much work was done. In England you can get an HC2 certificate if you are on a low income which entitles you to free treatment, but being a student wouldnt automatically qualify you - it would depend on how much money you had. In england, you cant apply for a refund retrospectively either

[MrXLA]

In England I believe it is now the HC1 (there are HC2 and HC3 forms however) and you can claim costs back retrospectively (provided you keep the reciepts).
No offence intended but YES your damn right its YOUR responsibility to let a dentist know if you are exempt from charges and for YOU to provide evidence, the typical NHS dentist has a list size of around 2000 (some more, some less) they wouldn't get very much work done if they had the additional burden (among the many too numerous to mention!!) of assessing whether you are exempt from charges or not, NOT THEIR JOB, YOURS!!!

[MrXLA]

Next time your at the dentist (and it might be slightly different in Scotland) ask for one of the blue forms, on the back its asks you to tick which (if any) of the cirumstances listed apply to you
- if you meet one of the criteria then you are exempt from NHS dental charges (clearly not private though)