In the UK, everyone over the age of 60 gets free prescriptions and NHS eye tests. You can also get free NHS dental treatment if you’re over 60 and claiming pension guarantee credits or other benefits if you’re under state pension age.

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Everyone aged over 60 gets free prescriptions. If you’re under 60 you can save money on prescriptions by buying prescription prepayment certificates from the NHS for 3 months or 12 months. This covers all your prescriptions for that period, regardless of how many you need.

Every household with someone aged 60 or over is entitled to help towards their winter energy costs. Under the Government’s winter fuel payments scheme, you can make a claim if you had reached the qualifying age on or before 27 September 2009.

There’s no limit to how much you can earn if you return to work after retirement. You’re entitled to work less than 10 hours a week and still be considered officially ‘retired’, with full access to your super. Anything between 10 hours and 30 hours a week is considered part-time.

If you claim Income Support or Jobseeker’s Allowance you should normally either be not working or working on average less than 16 hours a week. Partners of people receiving Income Support/Jobseeker’s Allowance are able to work for, on average, up to 24 hours a week, without their partner’s entitlement being affected.

Further, the Government has previously confirmed that whilst on furlough, an employee is still permitted to undertake union or non-union representative duties and activities for the purposes of individual or collective representation of employees or other workers, as long as they do not provide services to or generate …

If you have already been assessed as having limited capability for work, you may not have to undertake the assessment again. You will get paid an extra amount of Universal Credit called the LCW component if you: were in receipt of the Work Related Activity Component in ESA prior to 3 April 2017.

Work Allowance This means you can earn £515 before your Universal Credit payments start to be reduced.

Also see the Low Income Grants guide for other free cash you may be eligible for.

• Income support.
• Income-based jobseeker’s allowance.
• Income-based employment and support allowance.
• Pension credit.
• Housing benefit.
• Council tax reduction.
• Free school meals, milk or uniforms and healthcare.
• Support for mortgage interest.