You can check for retailers near you on the Healthy Start website. If you cannot use a voucher in shops within a reasonable distance of your home, you can be paid the value of the voucher instead. This advice applies in England and Wales. If you live in another part of the UK, the law may differ. Please call our helpline for more details, or follow the links for the Northern Irish and Scottish schemes. If you have further questions and would like to contact our advice team please use our advice contact form below or call us.
Have you heard about your right to request flexible working? Watch our film to find out more. To apply for the Healthy Start voucher scheme, you can download a paper application form from the Healthy Start website opens in a new tab , or you can request one from your GP or Midwife.
Alternatively, you can request one from the Healthy Start helpline on Find out about call charges opens in a new tab. You do not need to receive any of the qualifying benefits or be getting tax credits.
To apply, you need to call us on and provide:. After your baby is born, you will only continue to qualify for Healthy Start if you get the qualifying benefits or tax credits.
You may also qualify for free vitamin supplements. As a rule, you will qualify if either :. Also, to qualify you must already be getting any of the following benefit entitlements :. Being pregnant and under 18 means you would also be eligible for the Healthy Start scheme even if you do not get any welfare benefits. It begins immediately after you stop qualifying for the full credit.
You can claim your vouchers by filling in the online Healthy Start application form on screen. Print it out and then get your midwife or health visitor to sign it or a registered doctor or nurse. Send the completed form to the Healthy Start address. Milk token application forms are also available from your 'health visitor' or midwife. Note : The short video [ seconds] explains the importance of giving vitamin supplements A, C, and D to babies and small children.
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