When you send your application, you'll need to provide supporting evidence which is different depending on your disability.
Evidence must be dated within the last 12 months and have the same name and address as you’ve stated on your application form.
We will not send any original documents back, so it is important that you only send copies with your application.
You are without natural speech, the use of both arms (including profoundly deaf and without speech, or profoundly deaf with speech that cannot be readily understood by a person who can hear normally)
- you are a member of the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen Association (BLESMA) and can provide receipt of membership
- you have been awarded a lump sum payment under tariff levels 1-8 of the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) and have a letter from the Service Personal and Veterans Agency (SPVA) proving receipt of this
- If you are persons who is profoundly deaf and either without speech or without speech which can be readily understood by an untrained person and who are so certified by the Appropriate District Authority, your application will need to be authorised by the Sensory Team at your Local Authority
You are unable to walk 100m (110 yards) without stopping, severe discomfort or help from another person.
- the higher rate mobility component of Disability Living allowance
- Personal Independence Payment (PIP) where the award is for at least 8 points in the “moving around” activity
- War Pensioner’s Mobility Supplement
You are a partially sighted person or have a profound or severe hearing loss
- Your application will need to be authorised by the Sensory Team at your Local Authority
- you can provide a CVI (Certificate of Visual Impairment) which shows your registration
- can provide audiogram evidence of a hearing level being reached of 70+ dB HL across the normal hearing spectrum
- Local authorities may, where a person is not on the local authority register, require evidence from an eye specialist, for example an optometrist, that the applicant would qualify to be registered as severely sight impaired (blind) or sight impaired (partially sighted).
You would qualify to be registered as severely sight impaired (blind)
- Your application will need to be authorised by the Sensory Team at your Local Authority
- you can provide a CVI (Certificate of Visual Impairment) which shows your registration
- can provide audiogram evidence of a hearing level being reached of 70+ dB HL across the normal hearing spectrum
- Local authorities may, where a person is not on the local authority register, require evidence from an eye specialist, for example an optometrist, that the applicant would qualify to be registered as severely sight impaired (blind) or sight impaired (partially sighted).
You have a learning disability that must have started before adulthood and have a lasting effect on development. The person should be able to qualify for specialist services and he or she may have had special educational provision.
- (not in education) You are known to the Adult Learning Disability Team at your Local Authority.
- (If you are still in education) you can provide the front page of your Education, Health and Care Plan [EHCP] issued through your local authority education department. This qualification criteria only applies to the child learning application process.
You have severe enduring mental health issues which are likely to cause the driving of vehicles by them to be a source of danger to the public
- Evidence from the DVLA that you are currently barred from holding a licence due to a severe mental disorder
You suffer from epilepsy, dizziness or fainting, sight impairment or any other disability which are likely to cause the driving of vehicles by them to be a source of danger to the public
- Evidence from the DVLA that you are currently barred from holding a licence due to one of the listed reasons