Blue
Badge Criteria!
Of course, it is not until you
really need help when you are really disabled and start looking into the
qualifying criteria that you realise how complicated and difficult it is to get
any of those things that help you make life more bearable- not only do the
Government but Local Council seem to deliberately go out of their way to hinder
you at every turn-
After years without any financial government
help whatsoever-simply because I had a small private pension- in addition to my
state pension- which I had paid into all my working life after leaving Galley’s
Field School- at the age of 14! I was continually told by Government Officials
in Public Office-I was not entitled to any financial help to replace my
bathroom for instance with a walk-in shower Ect! Ect!
I discovered after reading an
excellent article published by the “Which” magazine- on “Attendance Allowance”
I discovered that if you have serious walking disabilities & other chronic
health problems as I have- and require
assistance and over 65 years of age you can apply for attendance allowance which is
NOT Means Tested – I was absolutely
delighted -& applied – simply because with my catalogue of medical
issues-although well treated and monitored by the Excellent N.H.S. & the
Visiting Nurse I feel sure that I'm never going to recover but hope to improve,
at last - six months before my 85th Birthday I was awarded
Attendance Allowance at the higher rate-How's that for care in the Community
P.S.
I Recently received from Hartlepool
Borough Council a Letter telling me that my Blue Badge I currently hold will
expire on the 5/10/2017.consequently I phoned Hartlepool Council yesterday
morning Thursday 07thSeptember 2017- I was told to apply on line to
fill in application form-having Attendance allowance does NOT--entitle you to a
disability blue badge?
Do this not confirm that both this
Government and the Local Council who issue the Disability Blue Badges – try to
make things as difficult as possible-?
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