registered disabled - what does it mean exactly.

[MamazonAKAfatty]

This really is a silly question but there have been a few forms i have had to fill out where they ask "is he regsitered disabled" and if im honest i dont know.

we get DLA at high rate, is that what they mean?

How are you registered? and what does it mean exaclty?

I have always wondered that!!!!

I think if you get DLA, that means you are registered disabled.
But I could be wrong, DD is definetley classed as registered disabled- no one would ever dispute that fact. And we just get DLA.

I think it's defunct - as of some act or other in about 1999? And largely applied to adults being disqualified for working, anyway. New forms should really ask things like whether you get higher DLA or higher rate motability or whatever is relevant. But not all forms are updated.

Confusingly, there are still local registers - Surrey operates a "register of disabled children" but this is more for them to have a central database so they know their client base rather than actually making you entitled to anything.

hmm its odd isn't it.

Im glad im not th only one that didn't know. I have been trying to find out for weeks but have been convinced it was something everyone knew but me lol.

when i was searching i found the surrey register but couldn't find one for Sussex at all.

im in Crawley.

im new to the area from London so don't know how far littlehampton is.

You are near me amyclaire, we live between Littlehampton and Chichester. LA to Crawley is about 50 miles I think.

My DD is on the "disabled register" and has a "I Count" card to prove this. By being on the local council's disabled register, for us, just means that we can obtain discounted prices for, for example, the London Eye, Chessington World of Adventures, etc.

being "registered" disabled used to happen at the point of diagnosis as it were. Although I was diagnosed as being blind when we lived in South Africa, when we returned to this country when I was 4, I had to see the eye specialist at our local hospital to confirm that I was actually blind. once he confirmed this, my medical records were updated and this triggered some communication to somewhere that registered me as disabled. I have no idea what or where, but when I retured to this country again in 1993, I again had to see the consultant (god alone only knows why) and he informed me then that I had been registered on x date by x consultant.

not sure how it works now though or even if it does.

My DS is on our borough's Disabled Register and has an ID card. But this wouldn't help (or not much) if you wanted to claim benefits, blue badge etc. So being "registered disabled" also depends somewhat on being in the DLA system.