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Personal Independence Payment Passporting arrangements for Blue Badge Scheme
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Personal Independence Payment
Passporting arrangements for Blue Badge Scheme
Blue Badge Scheme
Objectives
Introduce Regulations (from 8 April 2013) which provide passport from Personal Independence Payment to the Blue Badge Scheme
To maintain wherever possible, equivalence between the arrangements for Higher Rate Mobility Component of DLA.
Blue Badge Scheme – Criteria
Passporting arrangements will apply to those people who receive the Mobility Component of PIP:
awarded at 12 points (enhanced rate) for "planning and followingjourneys" which includes those who cannot follow the route of a familiarjourney without another person, assistance dog, or orientation aid. OR
those persons who receive the Mobility Component of PIP for "movingaround" at 8 points (standard rate) or more.
Transitional ArrangementsAllow those who are in receipt of HRMCDLA and subsequently not awarded PIP, to retain their badge until its expiry date.
Mobility Activities1. Planning and following journeys
Points
A I’ve decided you can plan and follow a route of a journey unaided.
0
B I’ve decided you need prompting from another person to undertake a journey to avoid causing you significant mental distress.
4
C I’ve decided you can’t plan the route of a journey. 8
D I’ve decided you need another person, an assistance dog or an orientation aid to follow the route of an unfamiliar journey.
10
E I’ve decided you can’t undertake any journey because it would cause you significant mental distress.
10
F I’ve decided you can’t follow the route of a familiar journey without another person, an assistance dog or an orientation aid.
12
Determining Blue Badge eligibility using Personal Independence Payment (PIP) award notifications
Not eligible
Elig
ible
Mobility Activities2. Moving around
Points
A I’ve decided you can stand and then move more than 200 metres.
0
B I’ve decided you can stand and then move more than 50 metres but no more than 200 metres.
4
C I’ve decided you can stand and then move unaided more than 20 metres but no more than 50 metres.
8
D I’ve decided you can stand and then move using an aid or appliance more than 20 metres but no more than 50 metres.
10
E I’ve decided you can stand and then move more than 1 metre but no more than 20 metres.
12
F I’ve decided you cannot stand or move more than 1 metre. 12
Determining Blue Badge eligibility using Personal Independence Payment (PIP) award notifications (continued)
Not eligible
Elig
ible
Blue Badge Scheme –Impact
100,000 currently on HRMCDLA in Scotland will be reassessed for PIP.60% (60,000) in receipt of HRMCDLA take up entitlement to a Blue Badge. Of those:43% may have an unchanged or increased
award from DWP and retain passport to Blue Badge.
29% may receive a decreased award. 27% may not receive a PIP award
Blue Badge Scheme
Where there is no entitlement to PIP:• people can apply to local authorities through
the Blue Badge subject to further assessment eligibility criteria which has similar mobility descriptors to passporting benefits.
• those who had previously received a Blue Badge through passporting will be able to retain the Blue Badge until its expiry date.
• those who no longer qualify for a Blue Badge at all may be entitled to concessionary fares.
National Concessionary Travel Scheme
22 April 2013
National Concessionary Travel Scheme
• Scheme has been in place since 2006• Recently secured through to March
2015• Successful – over 1.25 million users• 189,000 of these hold cards through
disability criteria
Benefits of NCTS
• Social – people can get out and about• Health – people are often more active• Financial – average value for
cardholder is £250 each year• Available for use on buses
– Plus – for island residents – 2 return journeys per year to the mainland by ferry
Welfare Reform
• Disability Living Allowance being phased out
• Personal Independence Payments starting April 2013
• Affects people between 16 and 64• New regulations allow those awarded
PIP to be eligible for NCTS
Passport to NCTS
• DLA-based–Higher rate mobility component–Higher or middle rate care
component • PIP-based
–Standard or enhanced rate
Passport to NCTS
PIPDaily Living Mobility
DLACare Mobility
Passport to Companion Card
• DLA-based–Higher or middle rate care
component • PIP-based
–Standard or enhanced rate of daily living component
Passport to Companion Card
DLACare Mobility
PIPDaily Living Mobility
Eligibility for NCTS
Estimated eligibility (approx)
Through PIPIncrease
(compared with DLA)
NCTS 174,000 3,000
Companion Card 133,000 9,000
Application for NCTS
• As now, through Local Authorities• Front line staff have information on PIP
eligibility• Anyone not receiving PIP may still be able to
apply under existing criteria• If no PIP awarded, the card may be used until
it expires
Alternative criteriaContinuing as now ...• Aged 60 or over• Attendance Allowance• Blue Badge• Registered Blind / registered partially sighted• Profoundly or severely deaf• Having lost a limb / limbs• Have been or would be refused a driving licence• Have mental health issues – covers mental illness,
learning disability and personality disorder• ...
Monitoring Impact• Overall, over 20% fewer people will
receive PIP than receive DLA• But slightly more people will be eligible
for NCTS through PIP than through DLA• Phasing in
June 2013 October 2013 October 2015
New applications
Existing DLA claimants when changes reported
Reassessment of existing DLA claimants
