{"id":510106,"date":"2026-04-03T03:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510106\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T03:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:41:15","slug":"jersey-healthcare-scheme-extended-to-more-pensioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510106\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey healthcare scheme extended to more pensioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 1,000 people will benefit from a scheme which provides financial support  for pensioners to access dental, chiropody and optical check-ups and treatments, Jersey government has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Pension Plus Scheme is to be extended to 1,300 more pensioners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The scheme, which also gives discounts for GP visits, was approved by the States Assembly as part of the budget and started on 30 March, the government said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The change in eligibility criteria had been proposed by Lyndsay Feltham, minister for social security. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 1,000 people will benefit from a scheme which provides financial support for pensioners to access dental,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-510106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}