Nearly 300,000 Blue Badge holders are entitled to a free travel perk in Scotland. While it is widely known that over-60s or ...

The Blue Badge scheme allows disabled people to park closer to their destinations and reduce the physical strain of needing to walk further ...

People with hidden conditions including heart disease, dementia, ADHD, epilepsy, chronic fatigue or Parkinson's may be ...

Pension age disability benefits do not include a mobility element which can act as a passport to the Blue Badge or Motability schemes.

People claiming a variety of benefits may qualify for a Blue Badge, enabling them to park nearer to their destinations. The badge allows free parking in disabled spaces and can provide exemptions from ...

A review of the full PIP assessment process for the daily living and mobility components will be completed by Autumn next ...

Thousands of Blue Badge holders in Scotland may be unaware of the additional benefits attached to the parking permit.

Blue Badge holders and disabled drivers could make major savings thanks to exemptions surrounding a new grant. The Department for Transport has confirmed that costs incurred by disabled drivers adding ...

Blue Badges are given to people who struggle to get around to help them reach their destination but there are rules which ...

When it comes to life, we are all on a journey in one way or another. However, some journeys are more costly than others, literally and metaphorically speaking. Fortunately, free national bus journeys ...

Years of scapegoating rhetoric and politicians casting disabled people as “scroungers” have reinforced prejudices about the blue badge parking scheme and led to “envy and resentment” instead of ...