Who qualifies for Blue Light Card?
To qualify for Blue Light Card you must:
- Be employed as a personal assistant and work for someone else who received a direct payment or personal health budget OR be a self employed micro-provider
- Have a valid ILG PA membership
- Have received your ILG PA membership badge
Who doesn’t qualify for Blue Light Card?
Blue Light Card are currently not accepting applications from:
- Informal/family carers
- Employers of personal assistants
- Carers who don’t officially work for the person they support but receive carers allowance
Blue Light Card isn’t automatically included in all ILG PA memberships but the registration process with us acts as verification of a PA’s work for their employer, allowing easy registration with Blue Light Card once the ILG PA ID badge is received.
Already a member of ILG PA?… Apply for your Blue Light Card here
If you have any queries for Blue Light Card including how to sign up and whether you are eligible please contact them on contact@bluelightcard.co.uk
What is ILG PA’s Personal Assistant Eligibility Criteria…
To be eligible for an ILG PA “Employed Personal Assistant” membership you must satisfy our eligibility criteria and confirm you are a Personal Assistant working for an individual employer who funds the support through a direct payment or personal health budget, OR a self employed micro-provider.
To support your application you will be required to upload the following documents:
- Eligibility of work as a PA: for employed PAs, a recent payslip or a current contract of employment OR for self employed micro-providers, a copy of your insurance certificate, or other proof of your self-employed work.
- Formal Photo Identification (Passport or Photo Driving License).
- Passport style photo (this will be the photo for your ID badge).
- Dedicated Coupon Code (this is if your employer has paid for your membership).
ILG PA & Blue Light Card FAQs
What is Blue Light Card?
Blue Light Card offers exclusive discounts and unique member experiences to people working in the social care sector and those in the wider Blue Light community.
You can grab discounts on beauty, electricals, fashion, holidays, insurance, travel and more. A Blue Light Card costs £4.99 and is valid for two years.
Once signed up, you can access your digital card by downloading the Blue Light Card app via Google Play or the App Store.
There’s 13,000 offers at your fingertips, plus a handy interactive map feature to help you find local discounts closest to your chosen location too.
How do I qualify to apply for Blue Light Card?
You must be a PA / Care worker who works in the care sector. This includes Paid employees of someone who funds their support with a direct payment or personal health budget and someone who is a self-employed PA/micro-provider. You must also have an ILG PA membership – not only does your membership provide an array of benefits but it also acts as verification of your work as a PA to allow Blue Light Card to accept your application. You can register with Blue Light Card once you have received your ILG PA membership badge as they will want to see that as evidence that you have been verified as an employed PA.
Unfortunately Blue Light Card are not currently accepting applications from employers of personal assistants or informal and family carers, even when they receive carers allowance.
Is Blue Light Card automatically included in my ILG PA membership?
It is not included in the employed PA employee assistance programme, but it may be included in the self-employed/micro-provider business membership. Check your membership type and what’s included from your dashboard.
No matter what the membership type, we have partnered with Blue Light Card so that during the registration process the member proves their work as an employed personal assistant, that so BLue Light Card accept the ILG PA membership as evidence of qualification for their scheme. PAs must provide evidence of their ILG PA membership if they wish to apply separately to Blue Light Card.
How do I contact Blue Light Card?
You can apply at www.bluelightcard.co.uk or if you have any questions for them you can reach them by emailing contact@bluelightcard.co.uk
I have the ILG PA self-employed micro-provider membership, can I get a Blue Light Card?
Yes, you can!
This hasn’t always been the case, however Blue Light Card will now allow you to apply for their card so long as you have an ILG-PA membership badge. For anyone who has long standing membership with ILG-PA and does not have a badge please contact us on 01476 851 464 so we can arrange one for you.
I'm an unpaid carer in receipt of carers allowance. I used to have Blue Light Card membership but now I've come to renew I've been told I need an ILG PA card, can I register with ILG and qualify for a Blue Light Card?
We have been informed that some informal carers like yourself have previously been able to get the Blue Light Card. As we understand it, registration with Blue Light Card is only available for those actively working in the health and social care sector and is not for carers who are not in paid employment.
However, we are currently canvassing opinions from those who do not qualify to gauge interest in changing the criteria for qualification which we will feed back to BLC. Please make your opinion count by completing our survey here: https://forms.office.com/e/XbTZ3RtNtu
How long will my ILG PA ID badge take to arrive?
The ILG PA membership badge will take 5-7 business days to arrive once verification is complete. Please note, if you are paying by monthly direct debit the payment must be approved before we can issue your ILG PA ID badge and so it may take a few days longer before it gets to you.
How can I contact ILG PA for further assistance or support?
For any further assistance or support, you can contact ILG PA through the following channel:
Email: Send an email to hello@ilg-pa.com, and our customer support team will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible.
Telephone: 01476 851 464