Optical
Please check your specific membership plan to make sure that this benefit is included in your level of cover.
We will pay benefit for optical treatment, at the appropriate rate and up to the appropriate maximum in any one calendar year.
When you send us the claim form, you must also send us an original, fully-itemised receipt.
What is covered
• Contact lenses (permanent or disposable)
• Contact lenses (permanent or disposable), when you buy them by monthly direct debit
• Contact lens check-ups
• Contact lens solutions (including if you buy these separately)
• Eye laser surgery to correct long- and short-sightedness
• Eyesight tests
• Frames you buy separately
• Lenses you buy separately to fit to existing frames
• Lenses supplied under an optical insurance plan
• Prescribed glasses
• Prescribed magnifying glasses
• Repairs to glasses
• Sunglasses, safety glasses and swimming goggles(as long as they have prescribed lenses)
What is not covered
• Insurance premiums
• Non-prescribed glasses and contact lenses (for example, ready-made glasses and coloured lenses)
• Optical consumables (for example, contact lenses and glasses cases)
