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Healthy Start Northern Ireland

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If you are more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4, you may be entitled to get help to buy healthy food and milk.

If you are eligible, you'll be sent a Healthy Start card with money on it that you can use in some UK shops.  You'll get money added onto your Healthy Start card every 4 weeks.

You can use your card to buy:

  • plain liquid cow's milk
  • fresh, frozen, and tinned fruit and vegetable
  • fresh, dried and tinned pulses
  • infant formula milk based on cow's milk

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