Priority services register for utilities

[Flower]

I’ve previously registered for priorities service with my electricity, gas & water providers ticking the boxes for mobility problems, refrigerated medicines & partial sight

Paying my water bill today I was asked to update my priority services.

Refrigerated medication ✔️
Mobility/ physical impairment ✔️
Partial sight ✔️ but it then brought up a date box to fill when this would no longer apply. I left it empty because unless replacement retinas become a thing in my lifetime I’ll remain blind in one eye & partially sighted in the other.

In order to move on I had to put a date so
I gave myself 75 years which would make me 133. Seems perfectly reasonable! 😳

Why/how would I know when I’d no longer be partially sighted. I’m called Meg but I’m really not mystic. How odd.

 

[Lucyr]

Why/how would I know when I’d no longer be partially sighted.

If you had an operation booked like a cataract op for example where you know that will help a lot with your sight then you’d have a date

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

What a strangely worded form @Flower !

I was registered for the priority thing once, but more recently I didn’t renew it, partly because my insulin pump now works on batteries, rather than being rechargeable, so it seemed less immediately worrying if my power went off for a day or two.

 

[Flower]

It was odd that it was only the partial sight box of the ones I ticked that asked for a when will this no longer apply date.

I understand situations can be temporary, physical/mobility impairment could equally be temporary but didn’t require a ‘when will you be better’ date whereas sight loss did. Just a poorly worded form I think.

I signed up due to having a rechargeable pump battery and requiring refrigeration for insulin. Thankfully I've not had a long power cut but it is worth knowing about the priority scheme for utilities.

 

[Lucyr]

What a strangely worded form @Flower !

I was registered for the priority thing once, but more recently I didn’t renew it, partly because my insulin pump now works on batteries, rather than being rechargeable, so it seemed less immediately worrying if my power went off for a day or two.

I’m registered, insulin would be fine but things like needing light to see to do my jabs in the evenings, or needing phone battery to keep my phone charged to use as cgm, would be a problem. My ME means I can’t necessarily guarantee I’d be able to go and drive to sit somewhere with power in another part of the town to charge things