Editing Freedom Pass (section)

==Eligibility==
There are two type of Freedom Passes: an Older Person's Freedom Pass (OPFP) and a Disabled Person's Freedom Pass (DPFP); the former has a blue right hand edge band and the latter a yellow one to enable transport operators to quickly identify which concessions are applicable. They originally provided identical facilities, but the OPFP later had restriction on some use at busy times.

Greater London residents aged 60 before 6 April 2010 were eligible for an OPFP, increasing progressively in line with the women's state pension age to 66 from 2020 to about 2026.<ref name=pensionage/> London residents over 60 but below Freedom Pass age are eligible for a 60+ Oyster card on payment of £20, with all the benefits of the Freedom Pass within Greater London, but not valid on buses outside Greater London.<ref name=plus60>{{Cite web |title=60+ London Oyster photocard | author= |website=Transport for London |date= |access-date=16 May 2023|url= https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/free-and-discounted-travel/60-plus-oyster-photocard}}</ref>

Disabled residents are, if they do not automatically qualify (e.g. by being already certified as blind), assessed to determine whether their degree of disability allows issue of a disabled person's pass. In early 2010 the responsibility for judging the degree of disability passed to local councils, and there were complaints of people who had been assessed as needing a pass for many years not having their passes renewed although their condition had not improved.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8683647.stm |work= BBC News |title= Freedom Pass taken off woman with learning disabilities |date=14 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://brentford.hounslowchronicle.co.uk/2010/05/brentford-woman-not-deaf-enoug.html |newspaper= Hounslow Chronicle |title=Brentford woman 'not deaf enough' for free travel |date=13 May 2010}}</ref> DPFPs are not available for [[carer]]s.

London Residents with specified disabilities are entitled by the [[Transport Act 2000]] to a DPFP.<ref>{{cite web | title=Disabled persons Freedom Pass eligibility | publisher=London Councils | date=31 March 2023 | url=https://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/services/freedom-pass/disabled-persons-freedom-pass/eligibility}}</ref> Some boroughs additionally issue discretionary Freedom Passes to disabled people who do not meet the statutory eligibility criteria.<ref>{{cite web | title=Discretionary disabled Freedom Pass | publisher=London Councils | date=31 March 2023 | url=https://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/services/freedom-pass/disabled-persons-freedom-pass/discretionary-disabled-freedom-pass}}</ref>

People with statutory disabilities entitling them to a DPFP are:<ref>[http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/38/part/II/crossheading/mandatory-travel-concessions-outside-greater-london Transport Act 2000 (c. 38), Mandatory concessions outside Greater London, see 146 Mandatory concessions: supplementary]</ref>
#People who are blind or partially sighted
#People who are profoundly or severely deaf
#People without speech
#People who have a disability, or have had an injury, which has left them with a substantial and long-term adverse effect on their ability to walk
#People who do not have arms or have a long-term loss of the use of both arms
#People who have a learning disability that is defined as 'a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind which includes significant impairment of intelligence and social functioning'
#People who, if they applied for the grant of a licence to drive a motor vehicle under Part III of the Road Traffic Act 1988, would have their application refused pursuant to section 92 of the Act (physical fitness) otherwise than on the ground of persistent misuse of drugs or alcohol.