Free NHS dental treatment

You’re entitled to free NHS dental treatment if, when your treatment starts, you’re:

• under 18
• under 19 and in full time education

Income-related Employment and Support Allowance

You are automatically entitled to free NHS dental treatment if you’re included in an award for income-related Employment and Support Allowance.

If you’re getting this benefit, your partner and any dependants under the age of 20 included in your award are also entitled to free treatment.

Use your award notice as proof that you’re entitled.

Contribution-based benefits

You are not automatically entitled to free NHS dental treatment if you get:

• New Style Jobseeker's Allowance
• New Style Employment and Support Allowance

You could get help through the NHS Low Income Scheme.

Pension Credit

You’re entitled to free NHS dental treatment if you or your partner get either:

• Pension Credit Guarantee Credit
• Pension Credit Guarantee Credit with Savings Credit

Use your award notice as proof that you’re entitled.

If you get Pension Credit Savings Credit on its own, you are not automatically entitled to free NHS dental treatment.

You could get help through the NHS Low Income Scheme.

Universal Credit

If you get Universal Credit, you might be entitled to help with health costs. This depends on your total take-home pay in your last assessment period.

Find out if Universal Credit entitles you to help with health costs.

You are entitled to free NHS dental treatment if, at the time you are accepted for your course of treatment, you are pregnant or have had a baby in the last 12 months.

To prove your entitlement, you can use a:

• maternity certificate (MAT B1)
• valid maternity exemption certificate
• notification of birth form
• birth certificate
• stillbirth certificate

If you have a valid maternity exemption certificate, you’re also entitled to free NHS prescriptions.

Certificate for full help with health costs (HC2)

You’re entitled to free NHS dental treatment if you have applied to the NHS Low Income Scheme and got a certificate for full help with health costs (HC2).

Certificate for partial help with health costs (HC3)

If you have applied to the NHS Low Income Scheme and got a certificate for partial help with health costs (HC3), you may be entitled to help with the cost of your NHS dental treatment. Your certificate tells you how much you have to pay towards your charges.

You can claim money back for dental treatment and NHS travel costs if you get War Pension Scheme or Armed Forces Compensation Scheme payments and the treatment is for your accepted disability.

Write to them at:

Veterans UK
Norcross
Blackpool
FY5 3WP

You can also contact them by:
Telephone: 0808 1914218