Need a blue badge but only have standard PIP

stay_positive

I received my award today , scored 12 points mobility , so I get free road tax and can get it refunded from Last December , I have to apply for a blue badge which I will be doing , just trying to fine some documents to send in with the application .

poppy123456

stay_positive said:

I received my award today , scored 12 points mobility , so I get free road tax and can get it refunded from Last December , I have to apply for a blue badge which I will be doing , just trying to fine some documents to send in with the application .

For the Blue badge did you score at least 8 points in the moving around part? If you did then you don't need to send any documents, other than a copy of your PIP award because you'll automatically be entitled to the BB.

For your car tax (VED) you will need to take all your documents, including your certificate of entitlement which should have been included in your decision letter to your local post office. They will then do everything for you and send off the V5C (log book) to DVLA because the taxation class will need to be changed to disabled. It will be backdated to the start of your PIP award.

Full details of what you need to take to your post office are here.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1143399/ins216-how-to-apply-for-free-disabled-tax-pdf.pdf

stay_positive

Poppy I scored 12 points in the mobility part (planning and following a journey) moving around scored 0. So I've sent all the information in . We got the free road tax, did it at the post office so now have a year of free road tax. 

poppy123456

Ah ok that means you don't automatically qualify for the BB. Sending evidence to support your claim is correct. You may need an assessment too before a decision is made.

2oldcodgers

You will need good evidence of planning and following a journey.
My experience of the assessment process is that it is harsh. My wife tried a few times but failed miserably despite being awarded Attendance Allowance at the highest rate primarily for not being able to mobilise well in the home. You will have to convince the assessor visually what your issues are, how they affect you and what you do to compensate for them.
Good Luck

stay_positive

2oldcodgers said:

You will need good evidence of planning and following a journey.
My experience of the assessment process is that it is harsh. My wife tried a few times but failed miserably despite being awarded Attendance Allowance at the highest rate primarily for not being able to mobilise well in the home. You will have to convince the assessor visually what your issues are, how they affect you and what you do to compensate for them.
Good Luck

I'll have to see , because my award is based on other issues such as not being able to have face to face assessments , and not able to make eye contact . I also have a support nurse who knows I have agoraphobia and I put her down as first contact, I had terrible anxiety during my tests for cancer and my MRI scan had to cancelled because I couldn't go in the machine I couldn't breath , so they did a CT scan instead and I had a panic attack during that too  but I got through it , and I am still here , but the cancer diagnosis stole the little bit of confidence I had , now I need to be close to home or close to the car , its  a safe place for me . We we parked on the side of the road and a bin truck was coming down the road, my husband had to back out and move because I was panicking in case we got stuck . It sounds very silly , but if I feel trapped it causes anxiety . I put all this down on the application form for the blue badge .