Healthy Start Scheme

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What is Healthy Start?

If you’re pregnant or have children under the age of four you could get payments every four weeks to spend on:

  • cow’s milk
  • fresh, frozen or tinned fruit and vegetables
  • infant formula milk
  • fresh, dried, and tinned pulses

You could also get free Healthy Start vitamins.

Who can Apply?

You could qualify for the NHS Healthy Start scheme if you’re at least 10 weeks pregnant or you have at least one child aged under four. In addition, you must be receiving certain benefits.

You will also be eligible for NHS Healthy Start if:

  • you’re under 18 and pregnant, even if you are not claiming any benefits
  • you claim income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and are over 10 weeks pregnant
  • you or your partner get Working Tax Credit run-on only. (Working Tax Credit run-on is the Working Tax Credit you receive in the four weeks immediately after you have stopped working for 16 hours or more per week)
Find out more by reading this Healthy Start leaflet