I am on a low income but don't automatically qualify for free prescriptions and dental treatment aa I am not in receipt of the benefits that make you eligible. A friend of my DD's said to ask in a pharmacy for a health care costs certificate application form,which could get me help with prescription costs and dental treatment. I asked an assistant in the pharmacy department in a large Boots chemist for a form. He told me I would need to ask my doctor to provide it. When I said I was told that I could pick one up in a pharmacy,he said that I needed my doctor to confirm that I was in receipt of the drugs that meant I could get free prescriptions. I was getting confused by now and said that I wanted the form for a certificate for people on a low income. He said 'There is no such thing. There is only a certificate for people who have certain drugs, such as thyroid or diabetes drugs to show they can get all their prescriptions free'. Is this right? Or has he got his facts wrong? Or have I misunderstood something?
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