Free entrance for carer question

gemma7wayne

Hi i have a query regarding free entrance to places if you are a carer, does anyone have any info on this my son is disabled i am now getting carers allowance and noticed somewhere i am going on wednesday states free entrance for carers.

Is there a card you can get or do u show your letter?

Any info would be great.

Gemma

robpw2

just take your letter
you can get a card for the cinema but there isnt an official card im aware off

Barneysmom

I'm just bumping this, sorry I can't help. I'd like to know too, I'm a carer but don't get carer's allowance.

Invasion

A DLA award letter or blue badge is normally fine Though I find, being in a wheelchair I rarely have to show any proof, but it's always worth taking it, make sure it's a photocopy of award letter!

Barneysmom

WE have neither, I'm my hubby's carer but he only gets IB. He's just had his second cataract op (thanks NHS) and has severe epilepsy.

onetomany

no there isnt one there one for the cinema which cost £5.50 i just take letter with me wished you could get one tho x

chloecat_2

We went to Bristol Zoo the other year and I emailed in advance to ask if there was a special rate for carers, as my mum cares for my sis but wasn't in reciept of carers allowance. The email reply said my mum would get in free.

I took the email with me and asked for 1 diabled rate ticket and explained my mum was carer and she got in free. Didn't need any special letter or pass.

Sometimes the easiest thing to do is just to ask in advance

Tally-Ho_2

My elder brother is a disabled war pensioner (but only 36).

We recently spent a week in London and found with him wearing his veterans badge and carrying his war pensioner status card, we not only got me in as his carer free but in almost all places the disabled concessionary prices were waved and we both got in free.

Worth bearing in mind for any disabled veterans on here.

Tally

Invasion

Chloecat, that's what I do if in doubt, sometimes I've found the people on the gate have no idea that you can even get a carer in free.. (more often at a show or something, than a themepark etc) so if I've emailed and asked, I can print the email out to show them if there's any doubt.

Barneysmom

Tally-Ho wrote: »

My elder brother is a disabled war pensioner (but only 36).

We recently spent a week in London and found with him wearing his veterans badge and carrying his war pensioner status card, we not only got me in as his carer free but in almost all places the disabled concessionary prices were waved and we both got in free.

Worth bearing in mind for any disabled veterans on here.

Tally

That's my hubby, he was 20 years in the army. I always say he landed on his head too many times, he did though land on a concrete bollard on one leap from a plane. He did about 150 recorded jumps. We do joke about it and some people don't like it but it's our way of dealing with it?

So I need to find out how to get him a vet's badge from the RAMC?

he never took his pension when he left and I think that the rules are changed now so he has to wait till he's 60.

Pete268

Barneysmom wrote: »

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So I need to find out how to get him a vet's badge from the RAMC?

he never took his pension when he left and I think that the rules are changed now so he has to wait till he's 60.

Hi,

To claim his veterans badge he will need to contact the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency (SPVA) on freephone 0800 169 2277.

If he was injured in the forces prior to April 2005, he should also ask them about claiming a War Pension (if after April 2005 ask them about an Armed Forces Compensation Scheme - AFCS - claim). Some places in London do only allow free access if the veterans badge holder also has a war pensioners status card.(issued by the spva to war disablement pensioners/AFCS clsaimants)

If he was in the Armed Forces Pension Scheme 1975. then any preserved pension is paid at aged 60years or if one become permanently unable to work before age 60.Again the SPVA deal with it all.

If he hits any snags, his local Royal British Legion or SSAFA should be able to help him.

Peter