Bus Passes......

[shillelagh]

I qualify for a bus pass but as of now I have not claimed it and I would think that many pensioners with cars dont claim the right to a bus pass.
If you can get about under your own steam and are fit enough to do so, why subject yourself to a means test.

I didnt know you lived in lancashire royboy ...


You are eligible for a Concessionary Travel NoWcard if you live in Lancashire (including Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen) and

• You are aged 60+or
• You are:
  • Blind or partially sighted;
  • Profoundly or severely deaf;
  • Without speech;
  • Long term disability or injury which seriously impairs the ability to walk;
  • Without the long-term use of both arms;
  • Significant degree of learning disability;
  • Would, if applied for a driving licence, be refused on physical fitness grounds.

taken from lancashire county council website
Concessionary travel

 

[shillelagh]

i get strange looks when i get on the bus using my pass .. especially when i sit at the front of the bus ... but usually i get them off pensioners!!!!

 

[cashman]

Bernard....when you enter the phase of senility as I have been accused of many times on this forum, you realise that the ones younger than you have been brought up to accept hand outs as a way of life.
I qualify for a bus pass but as of now I have not claimed it and I would think that many pensioners with cars dont claim the right to a bus pass.
If you can get about under your own steam and are fit enough to do so, why subject yourself to a means test.
Too many governing busybodies paid a lot of money for coming up with hairbrained ideas for persons they think are too old to realise that they are being hoodwinked..........did not come from my school.

theres no means test at all roy, ya just fill a very small form in along wi a photo n its sent away few weeks later yer pass lands, we use ours occasionally like margaret says, costs a bomb to park, n we have lunch or a snack etc wi that money. the elderly get little enough IMHO, n most have worked all there lives, so what little they can have, i think its daft not to.

 

[Royboy39]

I didnt know you lived in lancashire royboy ...
Cheap shot Jen
I can, and probably will move back back to Lancashire when the mood takes me.
I dont claim many thing which I am entitled to, like pensions credits, Council Tax Rebates or rent rebates.
I dont live in England but if i I did, it would cost you as taxpayer a hell of a lot more to subsidise me and my family to live in the UK

 

[Bernard Dawson]

Bernard....when you enter the phase of senility as I have been accused of many times on this forum, you realise that the ones younger than you have been brought up to accept hand outs as a way of life.
I qualify for a bus pass but as of now I have not claimed it and I would think that many pensioners with cars dont claim the right to a bus pass.
If you can get about under your own steam and are fit enough to do so, why subject yourself to a means test.
Too many governing busybodies paid a lot of money for coming up with hairbrained ideas for persons they think are too old to realise that they are being hoodwinked..........did not come from my school.

I think a lot of people don't claim the bus pass,because as you say they probably think they are not really entitled to it. Even though no doubt they have worked all their working life, and are perfectly entitled to a bus pass.

I suppose we are part of a generation where the thinking was that anything you wanted, you had to work for it. And the concept of someone giving you a free bus pass, is just alien to a lot of that generation.

 

[shillelagh]

I didnt know you lived in lancashire royboy ...
Cheap shot Jen
I can, and probably will move back back to Lancashire when the mood takes me.
I dont claim many thing which I am entitled to, like pensions credits, Council Tax Rebates or rent rebates.
I dont live in England but if i I did, it would cost you as taxpayer a hell of a lot more to subsidise me and my family to live in the UK

But until you move back to Lancashire you dont qualify for a buspass ... so dont say you qualify for one when you dont ...

 

[grannyclaret]

i get strange looks when i get on the bus using my pass .. especially when i sit at the front of the bus ... but usually i get them off pensioners!!!!

I wouldn't stare at you Jen,,,I think you have got guts to even go on a bus....you sit where you feel most safe..YOU DONT HAVE TO BE OLD TO BE NEADING A PASS..

 

[SPUGGIE J]

I wouldn't stare at you Jen,,,I think you have got guts to even go on a bus....you sit where you feel most safe..YOU DONT HAVE TO BE OLD TO BE NEADING A PASS..

Gettin stared at is fun esp when using it in my work gear. It makes my day.