Blue Badge Application Form

Blue Badge Application Form PDF – Overview

Blue Badge Application Form – If you’re disabled or have a health condition that affects your mobility, you can apply for a Blue Badge. You can also apply for a badge if you care for a child with a health condition that affects their mobility.

Councils can charge for a blue badge. The most you can be charged is £10.If you’re disabled or have a health condition that affects your mobility, you can apply for a Blue Badge. You can also apply for a badge if you care for a child with a health condition that affects their mobility.

Blue Badge Application Form

Blue Badge Application Form – Who can get a Blue Badge
You’re automatically eligible for a Blue Badge if you

• Are registered as blind
• Get the higher rate of the mobility component of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) – check your decision letter if you’re not sure
• Get War Pensioners’ Mobility Supplement
• Received a lump sum payment as part of the Armed Forces Compensation scheme (tariffs 1 to 8), and have been certified as having a permanent and substantial disability

If you get Personal Independence Payments (PIP)
You’re automatically eligible for a Blue Badge if you either:

• Scored 8 points or more in the ‘moving around’ area of your PIP assessment
• Scored 10 points in the ‘planning and following journeys’ area of your PIP assessment and were put in category ‘E’ – this means your stress, anxiety or other mental health issue stops you leaving the house

Check your PIP decision letter if you’re not sure.
If you’re not automatically eligible
You can still get a badge if:

• You have long term problems walking or going to places – including problems caused by stress, anxiety or other mental health issues
• You have severe problems using both your arms
• You’re applying on behalf of a child aged over 2 who has problems walking or going to places, or a child under 3 who needs to be close to a vehicle because of a health condition

Filling in the application if you’re not automatically eligible

• If you’re not automatically eligible you’ll need to fill in an extra part of the application form to explain why you need a badge.
• The application is more complicated if you’re not automatically eligible – you can contact your nearest Citizens Advice for help.

Documents you need for Blue Badge Application Form

Before you apply, make sure you have:

• Your National Insurance number or child reference number if you’re applying for a child
• The number, expiry date and local council on your current blue badge, if you have one

You’ll also need:

• Your original decision letter from the Department of Work and Pensions – if you’re automatically eligible for a badge
• Details of your medical condition – if you’re not automatically eligible for a badge
• Proof of identification, for example a birth or marriage certificate, passport or driving licence
• A Council Tax bill from the last 3 months to prove your address – or you can give your local council permission to check their records
• A photograph of the person the badge is for – it has to be taken with a digital camera

If you’re applying by post for Blue Badge Application Form

• Send copies of your documents rather than originals, in case your application gets lost in the post.
• You need to get the copy of your proof of identification checked by a professional person, like a solicitor – this is called ‘certifying a document’. Some professional people might charge to certify a document.

They should sign the copy and write on it:

• The words ‘This copy is a true likeness of the original’
• Their name, address and occupation
• The date

What happens after you’ve applied for Blue Badge Application Form

• It could take a long time for your application to be processed. You should contact your council if you haven’t heard back within 6-8 weeks.
• You might be asked to do a mobility assessment. A health professional will look at your ability to carry out a range of mobility activities. They’ll tell your council whether they think your health condition or disability limits your ability to move around enough for you to need a badge.
• You also might be asked to send in extra information or speak to a member of the council.
• Your council will tell you in writing if this is the case.
• If you’re refused a Blue Badge, you can ask your council to reconsider their decision. The decision letter from the council will tell you how to ask for a review and what the time limit is.

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