TRAVEL COSTS (to hospital for NHS treatment)
You can get help with necessary travel costs if you:
- are getting, or your partner gets (includes travel costs for your dependent children):
Income Support, or
Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
(Incapacity Benefit and Disability Living Allowance do not count as they are not income-related), or
Pension Credit Guarantee Credit; - are entitled to, or named on, a valid NHS tax credit exemption certificate;
- are named on a valid HC2 certificate issued under the terms of the NHS Low Income Scheme.
- are a war pensioner and the hospital treatment is for your pensionable disablement.
For children under 16 and those aged 16 to 18 - also read here.
Partial help:
- if you are named on a valid HC3 certificate you might get some help with travel costs.