**************: Adult Special Needs - Premiums

**************: Special Needs Adults/Children do not get a premium concession, but students do. In May this year, when my special needs son turned 20, our premiums shot up by R5k+. Eventually our medical aid was suspended, no one (call centre agents, you never speak to the same one) told me or informed that my son, when he turned 20, would then be viewed as an adult and the premiums increased accordingly, I couldn’t fathom how, why I was being told that our premiums were in arrears, I eventually got an email from admistration@discovery, that he was now viewed as an adult, I asked, based on his disability, if there is a consession for him. I was told NO! How is it fair that tertiary students get a concession but not special needs adults? This is pure and blatant **************. There is no tertiary schools for special needs adults.