Disability Living Allowance & A Blue Badge

There's a thing called the Disability Living Allowance which you get for being a cripple. Its a paltry sum, at most, designed to come in a mobility and a care component, but its the key determing factor (it seems) for the state to decide if you're a cripple. Registered Disabled is, it seems, a thing of the past and the local Social Services (with whom you would register) poo-poo'd it. They ask about it (DLA) on the application for Disabled Tax Credit (worth up to £4.5k and the end goal in this form-fest!), on the application for a Blue Badge for disabled parking (the only truly useful thing that the state can do for me is to allow me to park on double-yellows for up to 30 mins!) and so on. So while it's paltry, its still the keys to the kingdom.

So I did the parking badge application today and got that posted and have started in on the conspicuously user-unfriendly, 40-page epic, Disability Living Allowance form. I should finish it by the weekend at which point I will be waiting with baited breath.