How can I get a Bus pass for my Grandson?

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walterwhite

14-12-2016

Originally Posted by pie-eyed:
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I often wonder what the criteria for this is. Where I live it is not the norm for people to be paying for bus travel. They are on and off the bus all day with their companion tickets but are often on the buses alone. What necessitates the companion ticket? You would think, obviously they can't go out alone but are doing so all the time.

Meanwhile those if us who are travelling to work are paying an exorbitant amount for the privilege. Maybe if the government were serious about getting people into work it would be an idea to give out the free passes to those who need it for work purposes.”

Surely being a drug addict or alcoholic doesn't automatically get you a travel pass? I suspect you would need another condition.

I have trouble with the notion that people who work need a free bus pass more than a disabled person.

Tiger Rag

14-12-2016

Originally Posted by wear thefoxhat:
“Not sure about England but up here in Scotland junkies and alcoholics do get 'free' bus passes, free as in they don't pay the taxpayer does, their passes often allow a 'companion' to travel 'free' with them ”

How do you know they're junkies and alcoholics and don't have a serious underlying physical or mental health problem?

pie-eyed

14-12-2016

Originally Posted by walterwhite:
“Surely being a drug addict or alcoholic doesn't automatically get you a travel pass? I suspect you would need another condition.

I have trouble with the notion that people who work need a free bus pass more than a disabled person.”

Disabled people are not what I am on about. People who apparently need a companion ticket and are on their own half the time clearly don't "need" to always have a companion. I'd like to know what the requirements are for the bus passes and there is no information forthcoming. It is true that the junkies and dealers are in and off buses constantly and paying nothing while people who have everything to pay for are subsidising it by paying ridiculous amounts

sparry

16-12-2016

From my own experience in Leicester City, you automatically qualify if you receive the high rate mobility part of DLA, any mobility part of PIP or you have a blue badge issued by Leicester City Council.

Your pass entitles you to free travel anywhere in England between 9.30am and 11pm Monday to Friday, all day weekends and bank holidays, which is the statutory requirement.

In addition, I get free travel at all other times if my journey starts in Leicester or Leicestershire. I also get free train travel between stations in Leicestershire and between Leicester and Derby, Nottingham, Kettering and Peterborough.

If you live in Leicestershire and your pass is issued by the County Council, you can't use it before 9.30am and you don't get free train travel

walterwhite

17-12-2016

Originally Posted by pie-eyed:
“Disabled people are not what I am on about. People who apparently need a companion ticket and are on their own half the time clearly don't "need" to always have a companion. I'd like to know what the requirements are for the bus passes and there is no information forthcoming. It is true that the junkies and dealers are in and off buses constantly and paying nothing while people who have everything to pay for are subsidising it by paying ridiculous amounts”

So you have said yourself you don't know what the requirements are for a free pass, therefore you can't possibly know that these people have it because they are junkies or alcoholics. Presumably also you don't know these people so have no idea if they have any other medical conditions.

venusinflares

17-12-2016

You can apply to your local authority for assistance with home to school travel. If you qualify the assistance will be either in the form of a zero fare bus pass which allows one journey to school and one journey home each school day or a taxi to and from school if it's deemed that the child is unable to use a bus. These are usually only available to SEN children or children who live in rural areas who attend their nearest qualifying school.

The qualifying criteria has become much stricter in recent years due to cuts in funding, a lot of the discretionary criteria has gone and the local authorities only provide what they have to in line with government legislation but it's worth applying in case you do qualify.

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