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Healthy Start
Healthy Boxes
operates the Healthy Start Voucher Scheme for our fruit and vegetables
What is Healthy
Start?
With Healthy
Start, you can get free vouchers every week which you swap for milk, fresh
fruit, fresh vegetables and infant formula milk. You can also get free
vitamins. Healthy Start replaces the Welfare Food Scheme.
The weekly
vouchers are worth £3.00 and the qualifying maximum income for families
receiving Child Tax Credit has been increased to £15,575
How to apply
Applying
for Healthy Start is very easy.
Get an
application form and fill it in.
Take the
application form to your midwife or health visitor.
Ask them to fill
in and sign Part B of the form or give you a letter confirming that you're
pregnant and/or that you've got children under the age of four.
Make sure all
the information is correct and sign the form.
Send the form
(and the letter if you have one) to us - no need for a stamp.
How to get the application form
Before you look
at the application form, you may want to check if you qualify first.
Either
Go to your local
Job Centre
Go on line
at:- www.healthystart.nhs.uk
Ring up the
Issue Unit on:- 0845 607 68 23
You can save
time by filling in the application form online. But remember, you'll need to
print it out - and get your midwife or health visitor to sign it. Once you
have completed the form you will need to send it to the following
Freepost address (no stamp needed):
Healthy Start Issuing Unit
FREEPOST RRTR-SYAE-JKCR
PO Box 1067
Warrington
WA55 1EG
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