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Any tips on Blue Badge Appeal. Turned down even though I need Oxygen when walking or on exertion?
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I wish I had some tips for you. If you have any luck, let us know. Been turned down four times!
Do you have your Doctors support? I was helped by mine
Go hit em with your O2 bottle! Just a thought...might make you feel better.
Thanks for the replies....
Seems these assessors should visit disabled bays and see all those people who are fiddling the system.
Maybe then, us who genuinely need a Blue Badge, would get one.
I'll certainly let you know how I get on...
I wonder if the rules are different for different places. My mum has O2 at night only but is allowed an blue badge as she cannot walk for more that a certain distance without getting short of breath.
Is there a question related to that on your form?
Hi
There are two ways of getting the blue badge - the "automatic" way is if you get higher raet mobility component of DLA.
If you don't gat the mobility component you have to be assessed. The blue badge scheme is run by local councils so the ways the councils assess will vary from council to council.
If your council refuses to issue you with a blue badge you have no formal right of appeal. However you should still write to your council asking them to review their decision - if you can get some support from your GP, respiratory nurse etc all the better.
You could also try speaking to your local councillor - or if there is a local disability group in your area who might help.
Call us on the BLF helpline - 03000 030 555 - if you want to talk it through with someone.
Mark
Thanks Mark....
It is very frustrating having to go through this long drawn out process...
regards,
John
Places do differ I am afraid. I was refused a number of times by my council even though I kept giving them info requested ie further info from GP then info from consultant who all supported me. In the end it became clear the ONLY way I was going to get a badge was via the automaitc route via High Rate Mobility (DLA).
This is not what the rules said but was how my council interpreted them and there was little I could do!
The annoying thing is.....
C.O.P.D is a permanent condition and does cause extreme discomfort when walking or on exertion.
These are two of the so called discretionary conditions for obtaining a Blue Badge.
Yet Councils do not appear to know the meaning of discretion, let alone how to apply it.
All I'm asking for is a means of improving my quality of life.
At 69yrs old, I do not qualify for DLA. lol
attendance allowance is for you then.
try you local councilor johnboy0070 ask him/her if they can fight you case,even offer to allowe him or her see how you cant manage with out one.
if you need help in doing this drop me a message and i will try to help.
Thanks for the advise.
I have been to the GP this evening and he is drafting me a supporting letter, which I hope will help my appeal.
really pleased to hear thishope it works out.
Awaiting news from our local council regarding an application form my husband filed 2 weeks ago on line. Hope he has better luck than I did. Our local council does give applicants the chance of appeal or re-apply in 12 months time. I was too disgusted to appeal.I
I started to apply for a Blue Badge several times but was always put off by a note on the application form which said that if you could walk at all you would be very unlikely to be granted a (discretionary) badge. However I eventually went ahead with the application and put with it a photocopy of every letter I had ever had from my GP and consultant about my COPD. It amounted to about ten sheets! To my great surprise I received a badge very quickly.Perhaps the answer is simply to overwhelm them with paperwork!
Maybe BLF should do a poll on this one and when the results are in, analyse it and take it from there. Maybe the system needs tightening up, the whole scenario needs better policing, the councils should have the power to fine people who park in 'Disabled' spaces, even supermarkets, I appreciate that supermarket spaces are on private property but surely the council and supermarkets could work together on this.
From the comments above it would seem that the guidelines to councils regarding the issuing of Blue cards is not clear. I'm sure that many sufferers do not receive DLA but deserve a Blue card because of their condition and I'm sure that the people issuing the Cards are not medics.
In my experience, if people get together, get names on a petition and ask for an audience with the council, the council will hear the out. We are respiratory cripples but our voices are as loud as any others.
As for myself I got mine in France, it took three months. It was handled by a regional office who checked with my GP and consultant. It was slow but it worked.
A great post and a bloody good suggestion, if you'll pardon my 'French'.
It seems that those of us who genuinely need a badge to improve our quality of life, are being shunned by those people who haven't got a clue what it's like to fight for breath.
Maybe what is needed, is someone on the panel who actually suffers from C.O.P.D or similar lung disease.
Then maybe when those who have these lung problems, would get a fair and just decision on their Blue Badge application.
I am also in favour of BLF holding a poll on this very important isssue.
I qualify for DLA Mobility at the highest rate and my first blue badge came through in about 3 weeks. Subsequent renewals have come through in a little over a week. This is in Sandwell in the West Midlands.
We were turned down a few times, then once my husband was put on oxygen and was awarded Attendance Allowance (after a lot of appeals), there was no problem at all. He went in his wheelchair and they didn't even ask him to walk about.
I do not have a wheelchair, only a motorised scooter which enables me to exercise my dog 'Bengy'.
I do get AA but I'm sure that these so called assessment bodies, don't bother to read the forms correctly.
If my appeal fails, then it's the MP, local newspaper, the local councillor, David 'Bloody' Cameron, or anyone else I can think off.
My grand-kids call me 'Victor', after you know who...
So I will make sure that these people know why.... loool
I went for an assessment for my blue badge, armed with a letter from my doctor.....
Result? I have now been awarded one.......YES................
Hi I had been refused a renewal on my badge last year. I went through all the appeal stages and still got turned down, I believe you can appeal to an Ombudsman. If you live in Redbridge, Essex the same as me, I can tell you they are horrible to you, they ridicule you all the time. I am going to try again as it's over 6 months since I lost my badge and now I am going to fight them all over again.
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