9.1 Applicants must provide any supporting documents required in order for their application to be processed (i.e. to prove identity, residency and eligibility when applying under ‘without further assessment’ criteria). Applicants should also provide any supporting documents to help support their application when applying under ‘subject to further assessment’ (e.g. letters and reports from medical specialists).
9.2 Customers are advised not to submit original documentation. Staffordshire County Council cannot guarantee that original documentation will be returned to the applicant.
9.3 An applicant’s residency status will be verified using a document such as:
- Driving licence
- Council tax bill
- Bank statement
- Benefit award letter from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
- A letter from a school confirming that a child attends there, if under the age of 16
An applicant’s identity will be verified using one of the following documents:
- Passport
- Valid Photo card Driving Licence
- Birth certificate
- Marriage/divorce certificate
- Civic partnership/ dissolution certificate
9.4 Blue Badges include a digitally scanned, passport-style photograph.
9.5 Applicants can upload a digital photograph onto the online application form. People who are unable to access photographs can provide a suitable photograph taken by other means which meets the passport-style standard.
9.6 If an applicant has a valid Staffordshire County Council concessionary travel pass, they can request for the same photograph to be used.
9.7 The only circumstance in which a photograph of the badge holder does not have to be displayed in the badge, is in the case of an eligible disabled person with a terminal illness. If Staffordshire County Council is satisfied that life expectancy of that person is less than six months, then this may be approved.