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Healthy Start

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Free milk, fruit, veg and vitamins for you and your family!

Healthy Start is here to help you give your family the very best start in life.

 

Healthy Start If you're pregnant or have a young child under four you could get Healthy Start vouchers worth £3.10 a week for you and your child. The vouchers can be spent on milk, fruit, vegetables and infant formula milk at your local shops and supermarkets,Healthy Start plus you'll get coupons for free vitamins too.  If your children enjoy eating healthy food when they're tiny, their eating habits will stay with them for a lifetime!

  

Do I qualify?

If you are at least 10 weeks' pregnant or have a child under four years old AND you or your family gets:

 - Income Support

 - Income Based Job Seekers Allowance

 - Income Related Employment and Support Allowance

 - Child Tax Credit (but not working tax credit) AND an annual family income of £16,040 or less in 2009/10

You also qualify if you are under 18 and pregnant, even if you don't get any of the above benefits or Tax Credits.

 

How do I claim vouchers?

Follow the link below to the Healthy Start website for more information and to apply, or come into Flying Start Children's Centre to collect a form.

http://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/

 

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