Try renewing if you don’t get any benefits as I had to do recently for MIL, she’s 83 and housebound.
They want to know everything all over again even though it’s just a renewal.
Every medication, what dose, how many, how often etc, last 10 years of appointments for any doctors, hospital, specialist, home help etc, every time and date and what it was for…..for 10 YEARS!!!
Every piece of equipment used to help with mobility, how it’s used and where it came from.
A full list of all ailments, how they affect mobility, how long suffered, prognosis etc.
It was on a par with a PIP application, just to renew a Blue Badge.
After all that the woman who took payment wrote down the wrong surname (nothing even close to it) so after waiting 6 weeks had to call and try to find out where it was, 3 days and 10 phone calls to finally get to the bottom of what happened and another 3 weeks to arrive.
Not going to bother in future I’ll just use mine as I’m really the only person who takes her anywhere anyway!