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• CockneyRebel Member Posts: 5,257 Disability Gamechanger

  September 2017

  you can apply for a blue badge for yourself to use when your friend drives you, but they cannot use it when not driving you.
  You will need to apply to  your local council
   www.gov.uk/apply-blue-badgewww.gov.uk/apply-blue-badge
  
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  Be all you can be, make  every day count. Namaste

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• steve51 Member Posts: 7,175 Disability Gamechanger

  September 2017

  Hi @sodaone70
  
  Welcome to our online community.
  
  Yes you can apply for the badge from your local council but you will need to be in the car to use it.
  
  Here's some info for you please let me know if you need any help with them.
  
  https://www.gov.uk/blue-badge-scheme-information-council
  
  http://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/blue-badge-scheme
  

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• mossycow Member Posts: 495 Pioneering

  November 2017

  You can apply even if you receive no benefits. They will assess you with an occupational therapist even if you don't receive any PIP etc
  
  Have you applied? How's it going? 

  "I'm trying to live like a random poem I read that ended 'to bloom where we are planted"

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• mossycow Member Posts: 495 Pioneering

  November 2017

  @sodaone70 Any joy with your blue badge? 

  "I'm trying to live like a random poem I read that ended 'to bloom where we are planted"

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• wilko Member Posts: 2,326 Disability Gamechanger

  March 2018

  There are so many blue badge holders that holders are not using pay car parks and parking on the street as they are entitled to, to avoid parking charges in some towns and cities. My own county has over 22,000 blue badge holders and rising.

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• angela1961 Member Posts: 2 Listener

  May 2018

  Hi everyone, this is my first time on this site, the thing is- I have had a blue badge for several years but when my badge renewal forms arrived I found that I could not understand them! I am in the middle of finding out what dementia type I have, and one of the things I have lost is being able to work out how to fill forms in- it seems that my brain can't connect what's on the form and what to do. Any ideas where I can get help with there forms?

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• Matilda Member Posts: 2,616 Disability Gamechanger

  May 2018

  Try local CAB or similar, or local authority welfare rights.

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• Pippa_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,851 Disability Gamechanger

  May 2018

  Hi @angela1961, Citizens Advice may be able to help- you can find your local CAB on their website.

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