Healthy Start Scheme

(asked on 8th November 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether people who are eligible for the Healthy Start scheme and do not have a bank account can benefit from that scheme.


Answered by
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
This question was answered on 14th November 2022

The Healthy Start benefit is provided through a pre-paid card, which is unconnected to a bank account.

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