Healthy Start, a government scheme under which disadvantaged new mothers and mothers-to-be in Britain get fruit and vegetable tokens has been misused, a report claims.

Nevertheless, the report stated that the misuse is not frequent. Of the 2.6 million vouchers issued in a month, the Department of Health gets less than 15 reports of retailers who have given out items not included in the scheme. A spokesperson said, “'Voucher misuse is rare and is dwarfed by the benefits. We are working with retailers to drive it down still further.”
The Healthy Start programme, initiated by the Labour government on the lines of WWII scheme to provide free milk, will include frozen vegetables and fruit from April this year.
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