Apply for a Blue Badge

Terminal illness

If you are someone who has been given a medical prognosis of less than a year to live, please speak to your MacMillan Nurse, hospice worker, specialist nurse, GP or Health Professional who will complete a form on your behalf. You do not have to complete an application.

Disability Living Allowance mobility component

You qualify if you are:

• In receipt of the Higher Rate Mobility Component – this will be confirmed in the letter from the DWP.

You do not qualify if you are in receipt of:

• Low or Middle Rate Mobility Component
• the Care Component at any rate (unless they are also in receipt of the Higher Rate Mobility Component)
• Attendance Allowance at any rate
• Pension Credit

8 points or more of the mobility component of PIP

You qualify if you are:

• In receipt of a score of 8 points or more in the ‘moving around’ activity of the Mobility Component of Personal Independence Payment. 

You do not qualify if you:

• are in receipt of a score of 7 or less under the ‘moving around’ activity of the Mobility Component of Personal Independence Payment.
• Score on the ‘planning and following a journey’ activity of the Mobility Component (unless they are also in receipt a score of 8 points or more of the Mobility Component).
• Are in receipt of the Daily Living Component of Personal Independence Payment (unless they are also in receipt a score of 8 points or more of the Mobility Component).

Lump sum at tariff 1-8 from the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme

You qualify if you are:

• have been awarded a lump sum benefit at tariffs 1-8 of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation) Scheme and certification of having a permanent and substantial difficulty which causes inability to walk or very considerable difficulty in walking.

You do not qualify if you:

• have been awarded a lump sum benefit at tariff 9 – 15 of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation) Scheme.
• are in receipt of a lump sum benefit at tariffs 1-8 of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation) Scheme without certification of having a permanent and substantial difficulty which causes inability to walk or very considerable difficulty in walking.

War pensioners mobility supplement

You qualify if you are:

• In receipt of the War Pensioners Mobility Supplement. This is confirmed on the award letter from Veterans UK.

You do not qualify if you are:

• In receipt of a War Disablement Pension without a mobility component.

Registered blind or severely sight impaired

You qualify if you are either:

• registered blind/severely sight impaired with your local authority.

• have a Certificate of Visual Impairment (CVI – previously known as the BD8 form) signed by a consultant ophthalmologist.

You do not qualify if you are partially sighted.

Can’t walk or find walking difficult

You qualify if you have a permanent and substantial difficulty that causes inability to walk or very considerable difficulty in walking.

Please note that no single factor determines eligibility but these factors are considered together.

• Being unable to walk means that you can't take a single step.
• Considerable difficulty in walking is determined by considering the following:
• excessive pain when walking or as a consequence of walking
• breathlessness when walking or as a consequence of the effort of walking
• the speed at which you can walk
• the length of time you are able to walk for
• the manner in which you walk
• whether walking aids are used
• your outdoor walking ability.

You do not qualify if:

• you have a temporary disability or intermittent mobility issues.
• you have a behavioural or psychological disorder unless your impairment also causes considerable difficulty walking due to a physical condition.
• you have a medical condition such as asthma, autism, psychological/behavioural problems, Crohn’s disease/incontinent conditions and myalgic encephalomyelitis (M.E.). If you have these conditions you will only qualify if in receipt of the higher rate mobility component of the Disability Living Allowance, or cannot walk, or have severe difficulty walking in addition to your condition.
• you are frail due to old age unless they also have a permanent and substantial physical disability.
• you are under 2 years old.
• you require a wide parking bay to open the car door unless you are also unable to walk, or have severe difficulty walking in addition to your condition.
• you struggle to get in or out of a vehicle unless you are also unable to walk, or have severe difficulty walking in addition to your condition.
• you need access to facilities to manage bowel or bladder incontinence unless you are also unable to walk, or have severe difficulty walking in addition to your condition.
• you struggle to carry shopping unless they are also unable to walk, or have severe difficulty walking in addition to your condition.

Driver with disability in both arms

You qualify if you drive a vehicle regularly and have a permanent and severe disability in both arms and are unable to operate all or some types of parking meter.

You do not qualify if you have:

• a permanent and severe disability in both arms but don't drive a vehicle regularly
• a permanent and severe disability in only one arm
• a severe disability in both arms which is not permanent.

Child under 3 who needs to be kept near to a vehicle

You qualify if your child has a specific medical condition which means that they need to be kept near a vehicle at all times, so that they can, if necessary, be treated in the vehicle or quickly driven to a place where they can be treated such as a hospital.

Child under 3 who needs bulky medical equipment

You qualify if your child has a specific medical condition which means that they must always be accompanied by bulky medical equipment which cannot be carried around without great difficulty.