Medical Card, are you elligible?

Medical Cards are more widely available then you might think.

While they are means tested, they do take into account things like mortgage payments, rent, life insurance and the cost of commuting to work, take a look at   https://www.sspcrs.ie/portal/medapp/ and you can even apply online.

There are two types of cards:

GP visit cards cover the cost of going to your GP and full medical cards cover that and any perscriptions that you are given. Also if your in receipt of a full medical card you will pay a maximum of 4% Universal Social Charge as opposed to 7%.

Every Little Helps.

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