If you are really counting every penny you learn how to fill them in or get someone - Age Concern are good - to help you. If you are filling in a lot of these forms it does become easier.
AgeUK as it is now are good in some parts of the country but completely useless in others.
We seem to have the latter.
They helped my wife (76 and riddled with Arthritis) complete a renewal from for her Blue Badge. As she didn't claim DLA pre 65 (well she did but refused to appeal against the decision not to award it), she claimed AA with the help of the CAB. She was awarded the day and night element indefinitely.
She then went on to claim for a Blue Badge with the help of the CAB and it was awarded based on the completed form and the evidence she sent in.
In August last year it was up for renewal and she decided to ask AgeUK to help her fill out the form. She was given a copy of the completed form that they submitted on her behalf and I was shocked to read what they had put. Talk about over exaggeration, she was said to be a complete invalid and not able to get out of bed never mind walk.
Still some weeks later she was called for a mobility assessment by the Council.
According to the report telling her that her renewal was refused, it said that she could walk and indeed managed with some difficulty 15 metres despite what she had claimed.
She's frightened to death now of ever making another application all thanks to AgeUK.