not looking disabled?!

nannytone_2

i suppose i'm lucky!
i'm registered blind so i don't see the funny looks lol

starchild1972

MrsManda wrote: »

The changes can be found here:
http://www.dft.gov.uk/transportforyou/access/bluebadge/reform/
There doesn't seem to be anything saying that the eligibility criteria is being tightened but it does say that by 2012 there should be greater use of independent mobility assessments to determine eligibility.

Greater use yes but not all applicants, I am sure that if someone gets HRM (or incoming equivelent) then no other assessment will be needed. I have never been assessed because I always got it on my HRM.

nannytone_2

registered blind also get a BB automatically in the area i live.

jetta_wales

nannytone wrote: »

registered blind also get a BB automatically in the area i live.

Same here, I think that's the case everywhere but I might be wrong

As archaic as it sounds to have a register for blind people, I am very glad we do it does make life much easier. You can't really bluff having sight loss because they can see into your eyes (sounds horrid but you know what I mean) and then we get a measurement on a document and that's that. Looking at the ESA changes there's a 15 point question on situations like crossing a road safely which we really can't so 15 points. I've never claimed it but it does seem like another example of how sight loss seems so much more straight forward when it comes to the paperwork side of disabilities.

sunnyone

jetta_wales wrote: »

Same here, I think that's the case everywhere but I might be wrong

As archaic as it sounds to have a register for blind people, I am very glad we do it does make life much easier. You can't really bluff having sight loss because they can see into your eyes (sounds horrid but you know what I mean) and then we get a measurement on a document and that's that. Looking at the ESA changes there's a 15 point question on situations like crossing a road safely which we really can't so 15 points. I've never claimed it but it does seem like another example of how sight loss seems so much more straight forward when it comes to the paperwork side of disabilities.

You cant fake spinal injuries or being deaf, I am on the disabled register and the deaf register of my LA and I have been for as long as you have been born (and yes they still have it where I live) you have never claimed ESA because you are not entitled to it so skip that point or you would have claimed it :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

jetta_wales

sunnyone wrote: »

You cant fake spinal injuries or being deaf, I am on the disabled register and the deaf register of my LA and I have been for as long as you have been born (and yes they still have it where I live) you have never claimed ESA because you are not entitled to it so skip that point or you would have claimed it :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I didn't say that all other dissabilities are fakeabke did I but many get treated with actual suspicion because their condition is one that others try to feign having and that is very unfortunate but an issue that we have less difficulty with in my opinion.

I would be entitled to ESA and have been told to claim it in the past when my OH was out of work during the recession and when I was on my own but I didn't want to claim it and income support was sufficient and we did without that for many months also (just about and only because I was stubourne).

Bee in your bonnet as usual I see.

sunnyone

jetta_wales wrote: »

I didn't say that all other dissabilities are fakeabke did I but many get treated with actual suspicion because their condition is one that others try to feign having and that is very unfortunate but an issue that we have less difficulty with in my opinion.

I would be entitled to ESA and have been told to claim it in the past when my OH was out of work during the recession and when I was on my own but I didn't want to claim it and income support was sufficient and we did without that for many months also (just about and only because I was stubourne).

Bee in your bonnet as usual I see.

You have never worked and paid NI contributions and you have two children with you partner so that any benefit would be income related and even though you could get the disablity premium your OH apprentice gets paid too much or you would have claimed anu benefit ages ago.

jetta_wales

sunnyone wrote: »

You have never worked and paid NI contributions and you have two children with you partner so that any benefit would be income related and even though you could get the disablity premium your OH apprentice gets paid too much or you would have claimed anu benefit ages ago.

I've never said that I have never worked and that is not correct and there have been periods when I have been without income and also since being with my OH when WE have been without income (recession for example, it hit the trades hard). My NI contributions wouldn't be high enough for the non means tested but as I've said in periods without income I could have claimed and was encouraged to. I didn't want to ask my doctor to say I could never work which is what they said I had to do, it seemed quite depressing and I didn't want to think it true and I don't think it is.

Anyway completely irrelevant of my post or the topic of the thread :-)

SingleSue

I have the opposite problem.....apparently using mobility aids I look disabled so have elderly gentlemen holding doors open for me and offering to help me to my car, amazingly, they have all said I deserved the blue badge more than they did!

And of course the job centre.....with the lone parent advisor checking to make sure I am claiming DLA and have a blue badge and becoming ultra confused when I stated I will claim when I am actually disabled.

I'm a stubborn mare :rotfl:

jetta_wales

Just remembered one old guy coming up to us with our friends in Tesco demanding to know "Which one of you is dissabled?" he dropped his tone the second I turned around and said quite matter of factly "I am!" he honestly wasn't expecting that at all, it had clearly never entered his mind that one of us actually would be.