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Examples of evidence of disability that will be accepted 
in support of your bus pass application: 
 
If you wish to tick the box, which starts with “I am blind or 
partially sighted” you will need:
 
  
A copy of the ‘BD8’ or 'CVI' form issued to you by the hospital or your 
registration card issued by your Social Care team are adequate. 
  
If you have lost your copy of the ‘BD8’ or 'CVI' form, you may be able to 
get a copy from your appropriate local Social Care team (formerly Social 
Services) or from the hospital, which issued it in the first place.  
  
Evidence of your registration as a Blind or Partially Sighted person would 
be equally acceptable. 
  
  
If you wish to tick the box, which says “I am profoundly or 
severely deaf” you will need: 
  
A brief letter confirming your condition from a specialist agency or charity 
providing services for deaf people would be adequate, or 
  
Confirmation in writing from Social Services that you are included on their 
Deaf Register, or  
  
A letter from an audiology specialist confirming that hearing loss has been 
recorded at 70 dBHL or worse, or 
  
Confirmation in writing from your General Practitioner that you have a 
severe or profound hearing difficulty. 
  
 
If you wish to tick the box, which says “I am without speech” you 
will need: 
  
A brief letter confirming your condition from a specialist agency or charity 
providing relevant services, often the same organisations who provide 
services for deaf people would be adequate, or  
  
Confirmation from a General Practitioner that you would be unable to 
make clear basic spoken requests - in any spoken language - such as 
asking for a particular fare or checking bus routes with the driver.  
  
An inability to speak English or speech, which is excessively slow or 
distorted due to a heavy accent or a severe stammer would not qualify. 
 
 
 

 
If you wish to tick the box, which says “I have a learning 
disability” you will need:
 
  
Confirmation in writing from Social Services that you are included on their 
database as a person who receives - or who has in the past received - 
services for those with a learning disability, for example you may be 
attending a Day Centre for persons with a Learning Disability, or 
  
Confirmation in writing from the local Health Authority or your General 
Practitioner that you are included on their data base as a person who 
receives - or who has in the past received - services for those with a 
learning disability, or 
  
If you have recently moved to Lancashire or Cumbria, confirmation in 
writing from your previous local Health Authority or General Practitioner or 
Social Services authority that you are included on their database as a 
person who has in the past received services for those with a learning 
disability, or 
  
A letter from your General Practitioner, confirming that your learning 
disability can be defined as being sufficiently severe as to warrant access 
to services for people with a learning disability provided by the above 
agencies should you wish to apply to them. 
  
 
If you wish to tick the box, which says “I am without the use of 
both arms” you will need:
 
  
You could physically, through accident, injury, deformity or other reason, 
be without both arms. If this is the case no further supporting evidence 
will be required, or 
  
You could have lost the long-term use of both arms. In this case 
confirmation in writing from your General Practitioner would be necessary.  
  
 
If you wish to tick the box, which starts with “I have a disability, 
or suffered an injury” this is often termed as a long-term mobility 
problem. In such a case you will need:
 
  
Documentary evidence that you are currently in receipt of Disabled Living 
Allowance (DLA) mobility component at the Higher Rate would be 
sufficient evidence. Confirmation that you receive the War Pensioners 
mobility supplement would be equally acceptable, or 
  
A letter from your General Practitioner confirming that your condition has 
a substantial and long-term adverse effect on your ability to walk would 
be accepted as confirmation of your condition, or 
  
Your mobility condition may be sufficiently severe as to cancel the need 
for supporting documentary evidence. 

 If you wish to tick the box, which starts “I would be refused grant 
of a licence” you will need:
 
  
A letter from the DVLA refusing to accept your application for a driving 
licence because you are not deemed by them to be physically fit to drive, 
or 
  
Confirmation from your General Practitioner that you suffer from epilepsy, 
that you have had an attack during the past year and that one or more of 
your attack(s) have occurred other than when you were asleep, or 
  
Confirmation from your General Practitioner that you are liable to sudden 
attacks of giddiness or fainting, other than insulin dependent diabetics 
where disabling hypoglycaemia is considered to be controllable, or 
  
Confirmation from your General Practitioner, or the local Health Authority, 
or your local Social Services office, that you have a severe mental 
disorder and are under long-term medication sufficiently strong as to 
make you a source of danger to the public if you were to drive. 
  
 
NOTE - Anyone who has been refused a driving licence through a 
persistent misuse of drugs or alcohol does not qualify for a bus 
pass.