Bus pass prob, can you help me please?

Aura · Post by **Aura** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 11:57 am

I hope this is the right forum for this question. I have a worry at the moment about my bus pass, and would like some advice.

I am disabled with curvature of the spine and I am on the lower rate of mobility. My free bus pass runs out next year, I use it three times a week as I do voluntary work at the spiritualist church in Bournemouth. I live in Salisbury and there is no work suited to me or voluntary positions available where I live. I also see my counselor once a month in Bournemouth (as I have bad depression) because again no one could be found in Salisbury.

I am very independent and rely on my bus pass to get out and about. If this is taken from me, then I would have to give up many things including my councillor and friends that I have made. I do not want to return to the isolation which I thought I had left behind, monthly bus passes are very expensive in Wiltshire. It would be a case of doing food shopping or loosing my independence and being left on my own again with no one to talk to. Going there is the highlight of my life, because I know if I have a problem, someone will listen to me. I think I would rather starve then go back to that life again of nothing to look forward to. :-1

Can you please advise me what I should do please? I am worried sick I will be plunged back into a dark depression again. The spiritualist church have done a lot for me to get me where I am, and I don't want to say goodbye because I cannot afford to get to see them or my councillor who has been great.

Thanks.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 12:03 pm

Please don't worry. All you have to do Is renew It. Hopes this helps.

hertsdirect.org Elderly and Disabled Bus Pass

Just write to your own council asking them for a renewal form.

Aura · Post by **Aura** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 12:05 pm

Thanks that's put my mind at rest. So all I have to do is ask for a form when my bus pass is getting near it's end?

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 12:34 pm

Aura;1425596 wrote: Thanks that's put my mind at rest. So all I have to do is ask for a form when my bus pass is getting near it's end? Yep... Just phone them up and ask them to put a renewal form In the post to you.