Freedom Pass/London Freedom Pass:

London Freedom Pass: www.freedompass.org

The new English national bus concessionary fares scheme will start on 1 April 2008: www.freedompass.org

Please note that as a freedom pass holder, you do not have to apply for a national pass. Your current Freedom Pass expires on 31 March 2008.

Full details of how to renew your pass during February or March 2008 will appear on this website in January.

Your renewed pass will entitle you to all your current freedom pass benefits, plus the additional benefit of free local bus travel anywhere in England (between 9.30am and 11.00pm)*.

Check this website in January for more information.

*This additional benefit will be available to all freedom pass holders aged 60 or over, and most holders of the disabled person’s freedom pass.

A minority of disabled passes are issued at the discretion of the local council and so, under government legislation, will not be valid for use outside London.

London Freedom Pass: www.freedompass.org

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FREEDOM PASS Only if you receive the higher rate of the mobility allowance of: Disability Living Allowance (DLA). www.freedompass.org/disabledusers.htm

What is an eligible disability?: www.freedompass.org/disabledusers.htm

If you are living in London and you have an eligible disability, you can apply for a disabled freedom pass. The seven main categories of disability in the Transport Act 2000 which make you eligible for a freedom pass these are listed below.

If you have any of the following disabilities you can apply for a freedom pass. Local borough councils issue freedom passes to people with disabilities who meet one of the seven categories in the Transport Act 2000. These are:

people who are blind or partially sighted

people who are profoundly or severely deaf

people without speech

people who have a disability, or have suffered an injury, which has left them with a substantial and long-term adverse effect on their ability to walk

people who do not have arms or have a long-term loss of the use of both arms

people who have a learning disability, that is defined as, a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind which includes significant impairment of intelligence and social functioning

people who, if they applied for the grant for a licence to drive a motor vehicle under Part III of the Road Traffic Act 1988, would have their application refused pursuant to section 92 of the Act (physical fitness) otherwise than on the ground of persistent misuse of drugs or alcohol.

For further details see the Department for Transport website.

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