Disabled Blue Badges

[HIGH PIT WILMA]

Hi all,I re-applied for a renewal of my Blue Badge using Gov.com official website and template in January of this year.[2025]..After completing and submitting the application,I was asked [as usual!] for feedback!! "How did you find our Service?"[or similar]...Well,after filling about 50 pages of information which they already had a lot of,and seeing as I am 81 yrs old in a couple of weeks time..,Partially sighted and registered,with a load of other age related problems including very poor mobility..I gave them feedback!!.I sent a firm but polite statement saying that I found the Application form absoloutely deplorable..and said that I felt as if I was being treated like a foreigner..[no race hate intended obviously..just an old fashioned geordie way of expressing angry feelings towards the establishment]...[although now..foreigners are treated better than us!!]

Anyway!!..my point is,I am now thinking my honest outspoken opinion has gone against me...7 months is a long time to assess an application,when I read the forums and on average folks have received their new badge within 5 weeks!! 

Has anybody else had bother like this when renewing their Blue Badge?

Cheers!

Bill.

 

[Vic Patterson]

Hi HPW, It's been a while! What is a Blue card? I'd guess it's a seniors card for health or access benefits, (earned with 50+ years of toil) it's the same here, all governments departments either give you a telephone operator that can't speak English or keep passing you onto another department, all designed to make you give up trying! AND have gone paperless which doesn't help those seniors without telephones or computers... press 0 if you get this message..or 9 if you didn't.

[Pegwoman]

I really think that you must get in touch with NCC , by telephone , the blue badge department , they are usually extremely helpful when you have an issue with a blue badge not being issued. I believe they see all the applications which are made. YOU nave been too patient in waiting for a much needed item. Good luck.  

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

13 hours ago, Vic Patterson said:

Hi HPW, It's been a while! What is a Blue card? I'd guess it's a seniors card for health or access benefits, (earned with 50+ years of toil) it's the same here, all governments departments either give you a telephone operator that can't speak English or keep passing you onto another department, all designed to make you give up trying! AND have gone paperless which doesn't help those seniors without telephones or computers... press 0 if you get this message..or 9 if you didn't.

@Vic PattersonBlue Badges are for disabled drivers to use when parking in the disabled car parking spaces and on yellow lines on main roads. 

Has to be renewed every 3 years

 

[HIGH PIT WILMA]

Hi Vic! Hope ye are keeping weel! Alan has answered your question very well!..thanks Alan!

Also welcome to Pegwoman,and thanks a lot for your kind advice..you are right,I AM too tolerant!!..that's my nature..I always give companies a lot of time and space..thinking..I am not their only customer!!...but...when I start to fight..I am like a lion!! ....and NCC will find out if they mess me about!!heh heh!!

Maybe I will try ringing them on Monday...my application will probably be "Lost"!!