Blue Badge rejection

benniebert

Sorry but have I missed the party this evening? The last two posts have me wondering if everybody on this site managed to get pi**ed!! Richie's offering rambles making no sense and Mark goes on about 'Buzz Words'!!!
Hic!! Hic!!


I feel left out now - Ok off to bed!

tomtom256

50Twuncle wrote: »

Possibly - yes, but in my case - I do have a serious problem !!
Can you imagine - if your knee was constantly being forced back against itself then a little bit more - that is what a hyperextended knee is like - constant pain - not just a bad knee !!

I can imagine it and have it daily along with dislocations. Most of my joints are this way as I am hypermobile.

I wear a knee brace with flexion stops to stop my knee hyperextending and to stop it fully dislocating. I also use a crutch to help weight bare, which alleviates the problem slightly. I am never pain free, but am doing all I can to manage the problem.

Has your specialist/physio not recommended or provided a knee brace to stop the hyperextension, if it is as bad as you say?

50Twuncle

tomtom256 wrote: »

I can imagine it and have it daily along with dislocations. Most of my joints are this way as I am hypermobile.

I wear a knee brace with flexion stops to stop my knee hyperextending and to stop it fully dislocating. I also use a crutch to help weight bare, which alleviates the problem slightly. I am never pain free, but am doing all I can to manage the problem.

Has your specialist/physio not recommended or provided a knee brace to stop the hyperextension, if it is as bad as you say?

Yes - I am having one fitted in 2 weeks time !!
I was measured up last week.
In my case - it is only my left knee that is hyperextended.
But it is causing me considerable pain - whenever I move.
They were planning on trying an ankle brace to change the angle of my knee but this failed to work

benniebert

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

benniebert - Last Activity: Today 8:28 PM - came / read the thread 6 minutes after my #19 post.

There never was an automatic transfer of existing DLA claimants on to PIP, your were always going to be reassessed under the much harsher PIP criteria. It took a long three years, and many casualties and broken people to get a concession on face-to-face assessment adjustment out of ATOS / DWP. Most of the benefit of face2face rightly skews any benefits gained in favour of the MH group. For god's sake take it - it was hard won, you will only ever get to a face2face if you put in an appeal - and win that appeal.

Personally I agree with how and why PIP was set up. In my opinion far too many people have in the past under DLA been granted an award for some very silly reasons. Mental health was always a sticky point under DLA. People may have suffered in the past under PIP whilst the new system was being 'bedded in'.
The only point I was trying (and failing it seems) to bring up was that not everybody has the ability for many reasons, to ask for a MR (and all of what they entails - evidence gathering and writing a comprehensive yet to the point submission). Do you genuinely expect people that live alone or with a partner who doesn't know the first thing about benefits and the system, who are either in and out of hospital, ill at home, sedated at home on drugs etc, to deal with the bureaucracy to that level?
Even if they did manage to make an application for a MR and submit what letters they had at home, going to a Tribunal would be way out of range of their abilities.
You know full well that there seems to be an underlying system at play in that the government/DWP, are putting these obstacles in place to deter MR's and Appeals. It may well be wrong morally, but it is said to be for the purposes of reducing the welfare budget. Do I agree with the way this is playing out, No.

Richie-from-the-Boro

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harveybobbles

50Twuncle wrote: »

What annoys me is that I regularly see people, parking their blue badged cars on double yellow lines and walking away to the shops etc without any problems at all...

I still want to know what this means?

Do you want us BB holders to swing the drivers door open and fall out onto the floor in a puddle of our own sick?

Richie-from-the-Boro

- 70 English LA's have no policy in place to prosecute abuse of the Blue Badge Scheme
- good enforcers are Fulham / Leeds / Birmingham Bradford / Bexley and Enfield
- all but one of the prosecutions were a non-badge holder using another person’s Blue Badge
- some LA's issued far more replacement badges than were reported lost or stolen - brilliant !
- Lancashire, [no prosecution policy] issued 337 replacement badges during a period when only 10 badges were reported lost and seven reported stolen - brilliant !
- the National Fraud Authority, quotes 20% of all BB in circulation are abused at an annual cost of £46m to councils

I wrote a long post a couple of years ago somewhere in this sub forum about how BB abuse robs disabled people of their independence and ability to get out and about in their own cars and park more easily to visit shops or family and friends. Councils must set up self financing blue badge specific enforcement teams. There are enough [see above] abusers and enough existing service providers already contracted to LA's to set up an enforcement team. Until lazy local authorities put a blue badge prosecution policy in place, appoint a small team, open a local freephone BB fraud line - nothing will get a real grip. Mi££ions of extra money paid by the disabled [£2 to £10 average per BB] setting up the new secure self financing BB central dBase. The instant information to seize a blue badge and prosecute exists .. .. .. just make the LA's enforce it.

benniebert

50Twuncle wrote: »

Sorry but around here we have a particular breed of individuals who ARE NOT disabled and use parents cars for pubs/ clubbing etc
Parking where they like and getting away with it.

You must live near me then!!


Mind you I must live in one of the worst disability hotspots. I've never seen so many mums parking outside the local school everyday on double yellows and ALL have a BB in the car - I counted 78 cars at 3pm one day last week. It makes the whole road only one carriage way width for over a quarter of a mile. The road itself is a bus route to and from a large town and a city.

50Twuncle

Sorry but around here we have a particular breed of individuals who ARE NOT disabled and use parents cars for pubs/ clubbing etc
Parking where they like and getting away with it.

I meant to say "Using DISABLED parents BB'd cars"..........

harveybobbles

Could you answer my question 50Twuncle?