Is everyone with Aspergers eligible for a free bus pass?

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It is not income-dependent So long as they fulfill one of the statutory definitions of 'eligible disabled' as per the Transport Act 2000. Each county appears to interpret it differently, but under the current government, this sort of thing is getting tightened up...

You can - apply... Save you a fortune on bus fares.

I've got a free bus pass because I'm on disability and it's my only income, but my disability affects spatial orientation and equilibrium so that makes it quite difficult to take the bus. It's still better than nothing and I need it to go to the grocery store anyway.

Can I move to England? I want a free bus pass.

Unfortunately the UK (yes I mean all the countries there but I am too lazy to type them all so UK it is) has real strict laws about immigration. You have to be rich or be engaged to someone from there and they don't want any immigrants going on their benefits so you would have to prove to them that your income will be enough to support your living there without any support. But it's very difficult to move there from another country. I am sure if one of your parents was born there, then it might be easier for you to move there.

You couldn't pay me enough to use the buses around here. Awful service. Though it seems I would be eligible for a free pass, I much prefer to walk.

I don't know the rules in the Netherlands about free bus passes for handicapped people, since I travel in the same way as an NT would.

I prefer to integrate as much as possible, I want to have the same rights and duties as NT have. Since NTs have to pay for public transit, it would be fair for me, I have to pay for public transit as well. I don't have a physical or speech handicap.

There are also rules for getting a wheelchair and similar equipments for people with a physical handicap, who have mobility problems.

Where I live it's quite tough to get a bus pass on disability. The main criteria is having a disability that means you're unable to drive, then you've got a chance of getting pass. Otherwise you're most probably going to be declined; I know someone who applied explaining it'd help her out financially as she was on benefits, had asperger's and was unable to work at the time, and she was denied a pass unfortunately.

I get a reduced fare pass; $1 instead of $2.50.

In British Columbia, if you were on Person with Disability Benefits, which the majority of autistic people are eligible for, you used to be able to receive a $45 annual bus pass, but they recently changed the rules and increased the actual benefits, but tacked on a $52 (or something like that) monthly fee for the bus pass. Young adults with autism are encouraged to go on disability if they are going to school, as working while going to school can be very stressful. Since the public institutions in my area offer a $40 monthly bus pass, without any annual fee, so this group may switch over the the university bus pass. Everyone on disability can get it, but no one HAS TO.

Forgive us our bus passes, as we forgive those who bus pass against us …

I've tried repeatedly to find out one way or another if I'm eligible or not by asking the people who I'd apply to but they're being highly evasive, I haven't had a straight answer. They say I'd need to apply to find out and I've asked them exactly what supporting evidence they need with my application and they haven't given me a proper answer. It's like getting blood from a stone. If I'm not eligible then I won't apply. I've asked if everyone with Aspergers is eligible but they won't answer one way or the other, in my mind it's either a yes or a no but they're not telling me. If not everyone with Aspergers is eligible then I might not be eligible, if everyone is then I am, it's doing my head in not getting an answer.

Having AS does not make you automatically eligible, it will be done on a per-person basis based on your circumstances so the only way you'll find out is to apply. You can probably find out using some common sense to be honest....are you physically limited for example? I have AS but go to the gym three times a week and I'm more able that most my age so I don't need a bus pass. But that's me, they will take your circumstances into account.

Well I've got Spondylolisthesis which is a back condition but on it's own I don't think that would make me elligible. & my friend with the bus pass can walk for miles and miles, we'd do 7-8 hour walks together, but then if we'd have both had bus passes' back then before she moved away we wouldn't have needed to walk so far! Being tight and not being able to drive means I walk a lot so I am pretty fit. Blah, I hope they don't hold being fit against me.