Posted By Dave Wilson Have a chat with your 'spectacles'provider and they will let you know what they can provide them for and that's what you will need to pay, may be less at the moment!

Posted By Ron Hunter Nothing to stop the employer entering into a contract with a sole provider. The High Street Chains will do you prices way below £50.

Posted By FAH We've been here before folks! Technically, any arbitrary imposition of a financial reimbursement limit could well render the orgainstion applying it in breach of HSWA Sect 9 if the glasses actually cost more - this is a criminal offence! Frank Hallett

Posted By Billy Barracuda I would echo other responses and choose an optician that you would insist that employees go to, then you can fix the amount at the cheapest cost of a single vision pair of specs that they offer. If you do not wish to restrict your employees, a voucher scheme is an alternative. There is another provider of eyecare vouchers that can be used at many different opticians. Not sure I can state the name here under the acceptable use guidelines.

Posted By f5refresh Edward link below might help http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/faqs/vdubreaks.htm (NOTE - posters on the other thread titled 'eye test' may also find the link useful to clear up the somewhat evident confusion). To put into context the cheapest pair of corrective appliances prescribed for DSE work currently on the market is £14.50 - admittedly they probably don't do anything for your street cred but if the user wants the designer pair let them pay the excess?? - therefore if you use that principle I'd say £50 is far too much! the fact that its taxpayers money......I won't go there;-) As for the previous comment - 'If they are personal glasses yet employees use them for work then I would consider a contribution as a gesture of goodwill. £50 to me seems very reasonable' - i must say I'm slightly confused, Steve are you saying that users who normally wear glasses as part of their daily life, you would give them a £50 contribution as well?? Talk about opening a can of worms IMO seems OTT. I'd rather spend that money in other areas. For the record we to use the voucher scheme - it cuts cost and administration.