DLA renewal blue badge due for renewal at same time.

[Staryeyed]

can I renew my ds blue badge when his current DLA award runs to the same time that the blue badge is to be renewed. Do i have to wait for the dla renewal decision?

In my experience they will always only date the blue badge to run based on the dates DLA is awarded for (which they get from the copy of the DLA letter you give them). I remeber DS only getting his blue badge renewed for a year at one point because of this. We then had to wait until the DLA renewal was done and becaues I was late getting the application in it meant DS was without the badge for a while.

we had to wait for the dla letter to come through as that was the proof we needed to get the badge, it just meant getting the dla forms back to them in enough time to allow for the badge renewal. Doesn't make life easy though!

You don't need HRM to get a blue badge. HRM is just a 'passport' to a blue badge.

If you can show that your DS meets the other criteria for a blue badge, then you can apply for one on that basis.

Also, don't be fooled by their 'physically unable to walk' criteria if your child's problems with walking are a lack of danger awareness, behaviour, or stumbles, trips and falls:

If your child has a brain condition (including ASD, which is accepted legally to be an 'organic' condition) you can say that it is the physical variation in the brain which is resulting in behavioural difficulties/no sense of danger/stumbles trips or falls.

If a person had difficulty walking because of damage to their back which caused them to stumble/trip/fall or experience pain on walking, they would still qualify despite their legs being perfectly functional. Similarly, if your child's brain is damaged or altered and this results in difficulties with walking, despite their legs being perfectly functional, your child should also qualify.

DD1 was refused a blue badge and I appealed (successfully) on these grounds. She was awarded HRM a few months later.