Blue badge

WelshTiger72

rockingbilly wrote: »

Thanks, that's good to know. I don't want to be guilty of using the badge when they stop my DLA after failing the PIP assessment.
Otherwise as the badges are for three years and say you lose your mobility DLA or PIP a few days after getting you badge the alternative would be that you would get nearly 3 years of use without having to prove a thing!

I was more surprised at getting a letter from the council thanking me for my honesty!

Ames

A blue badge is valid until it expires, regardless of what happens when moving to PIP:

Ministers have decided that if an existing recipient of the Higher Rate Mobility
Component of DLA fails to score 8 points or more under the ‘Moving Around’ mobility component
of PIP, they should be allowed to retain their current Blue Badge
until it expires. If at that point
the individual does not automatically qualify for a badge by virtue of a PIP award, they will be
able to apply directly to their local authority to
see whether they qualify under any of the other
criteria

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/192216/pip-blue-badge-scheme.pdf

WelshTiger72

Ames wrote: »

A blue badge is valid until it expires, regardless of what happens when moving to PIP:

Ministers have decided that if an existing recipient of the Higher Rate Mobility
Component of DLA fails to score 8 points or more under the ‘Moving Around’ mobility component
of PIP, they should be allowed to retain their current Blue Badge
until it expires. If at that point

I didn't know that.
the individual does not automatically qualify for a badge by virtue of a PIP award, they will be
able to apply directly to their local authority to
see whether they qualify under any of the other

I didn't know that...

rockingbilly

Ames wrote: »

A blue badge is valid until it expires, regardless of what happens when moving to PIP:

Ministers have decided that if an existing recipient of the Higher Rate Mobility
Component of DLA fails to score 8 points or more under the ‘Moving Around’ mobility component
of PIP, they should be allowed to retain their current Blue Badge
until it expires. If at that point
the individual does not automatically qualify for a badge by virtue of a PIP award, they will be
able to apply directly to their local authority to
see whether they qualify under any of the other
criteria

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/192216/pip-blue-badge-scheme.pdf

I too didn't know that either.
I think sometimes that the government have no real idea what they are doing.
They penalise the poor and disabled and get great joy out of saving the money.
They say that the BB is being abused, whilst council officials are empowered to prosecute anybody that uses an out of date badge etc.
Then we have the government telling the able bodied who have been certified that they have no difficulty walking for 50 metres + that they can keep and use their Blue Badges for up to 3 years after being found not entitled!
So I presume that after having completed a half marathon and then to jump in your car that has remained idle on double yellow lines for the past three hours there is nothing illegal in that? And they are in charge, there are more sane people locked up in a secure unit.

Joes_nana

I have a blue badge for 3 years after qualifying thro pip. I feel a bit awkward when I use it as I have fybromyalgia, asthma,borderline personality disorder, cyclothymia and agoraphobia.. So I look ok I do walk with a stick but folk do look as if to say why have I got it. I don't use it often as I only go out when accompanied and after a lot of planning and faffing, refusals and changes of mind. .

Should I feel guilty about a blue badge?

Joes nana

rockingbilly

Joes_nana wrote: »

I have a blue badge for 3 years after qualifying thro pip. I feel a bit awkward when I use it as I have fybromyalgia, asthma,borderline personality disorder, cyclothymia and agoraphobia.. So I look ok I do walk with a stick but folk do look as if to say why have I got it. I don't use it often as I only go out when accompanied and after a lot of planning and faffing, refusals and changes of mind. .

Should I feel guilty about a blue badge?

Joes nana

Why?

If you only use it to make sure that the car next to you does not scratch or dent your car it's worth it. People are not careful enough how they treat other people's property especially if you own an expensive motor car.
I use mine all of the time to park on double yellows. No driving around looking for somewhere to park.

Joes_nana

Thankyou for your reply. It makes perfect sense... I shall bear it in mind x

A_Flock_Of_Sheep

I never advocate linking a Blue Badge to PIP or DLA. Then if you lose PIP or DLA due to a DWP decision you do not agree with, the relationship between you and your council remains a private one and the council can decide.

If the council provide one directly and you have an assessment with them and get a BB you can use the BB OT report the council produce as evidence for PIP or a tribunal fighting PIP.

rockingbilly

A_Flock_Of_Sheep wrote: »

I never advocate linking a Blue Badge to PIP or DLA. Then if you lose PIP or DLA due to DWP incompetence the relationship between you and your council remains a private one and the council can decide.

If the council provide one directly and you have an assessment with them and get a BB you can use the BB OT report the council produce as evidence for PIP or a tribunal fighting PIP.

You can't go round saying that the DWP are incompetent - maybe some decisions are perverse but that does not mean that the whole department is riddled with incompetent staff.