BB...how did I get it?

LL30

Well my BB arrived this week, it only took them 2 weeks from sending the info in for them to send it to me. I'm new at this 'disabled thing', but I've already been through the mill with DLA (and won - well, ish, LRC) so I was totally shocked when I was sent a BB so easily! Now I'm having a little bit of a paranoid worry, why didn't I have to argue for it? I didn't spend much time filling in the form (wasn't thinking about meeting eligibility criteria iyswim) and they didn't require any medical evidence at all - surely that's not right?

Don't worry, I'm not going to send it back (it's such a God send, especially as I'm in the middle of a flare) but I don't get it?! Are they usually this easy to acquire?

LadyMorticia

They're not usually so easy to get, in my experience, especially if you don't receive HRM.

I wasn't receiving HRM when I got my BB. I was initially refused a BB. I appealed and had to see an OT who could see that I needed one and so I was granted one.

HRM gives you automatic entitlement to a BB but it's hard to get one without it without sufficient medical evidence or an OT assessment.

You're very lucky to get one so easily. Maybe your area is different to alot of others.

LL30

Right, that's me stashing it down my knickers then I could have cried when it came through with no arguing or proving how 'disabled' I am. Today I have been able to take my daughter to a retail park and drove in between the shops we wanted to go to, instead of me deciding which one or two I would manage - and all because I could park in the disabled spots directly outside each of them. Small things