When a husband who with his wife were pensioners living on their boat, got a serious illness and the wife had neither car or bus pass (or pays local taxes) and needed to make a multi mile journey to/from the hospital by bus each day one of the social persons at the hospital got her a bus pass in two days flat.
--- On Sun, 11/23/08, Richard Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Richard Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] bus pass - continous cruising To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, November 23, 2008, 5:28 PM eaml2 wrote: > Hi > > > > My Dad - who is a continuous cruiser with a winter BW mooring in Berkshire - > is having trouble getting a bus pass because of a lack of permanent address. > Has anyone any experience of this please - and if so, any solutions or > thoughts? > I don't think that the payment of council tax is a requirement for a bus pass, residency is however. I am told that it is possible (seems to depend on the view taken by individual councils) to obtain a pass by registering with an area with which you have some connection, for instance where your post goes. You can so register as a homeless person to get voting rights. You would then appear on the electoral register and could try applying for a pass then. I know that Vale Royal in Cheshire are sympathetic to this, there may be others. Richard Tanner NB Cartref [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
