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# Use older-person concessionary travel

Identify the territorial and local scheme, check its age and residence rules and apply through the responsible authority.

Stable family ID
  `use-older-person-concessionary-travel`
Domain
  Later life
Enclosing process
  Secure later-life income and mobility
Population gate
  complete
Specialist review
  required
Useful terms
  older persons bus pass; free bus travel pension age; senior travel pass
Example situations
  An older person wants to use or apply for concessionary public transport.

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## Official source handoffs

- Apply for an older person's bus pass — Department for Transport; England; observed 2026-08-08.
- Benefits in Scotland — Scottish Government; Scotland; observed 2026-08-08.
- Social care in Wales — Welsh Government; Wales; observed 2026-08-08.
- Pensions and retirement planning — Northern Ireland Executive; Northern Ireland; observed 2026-08-08.

## Complete governed family record

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      "family": {
        "aliases": [
          "older persons bus pass",
          "free bus travel pension age",
          "senior travel pass"
        ],
        "applicability": [
          {
            "jurisdiction": "England",
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              {
                "id": "england-current-official-route",
                "primary_source": "use-older-person-concessionary-travel-primary",
                "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider",
                "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page"
              }
            ],
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            ],
            "state": "supported"
          },
          {
            "jurisdiction": "Scotland",
            "route_variants": [
              {
                "id": "scotland-current-official-route",
                "primary_source": "later-life-scotland-handoff",
                "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider",
                "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff"
              }
            ],
            "source_ids": [
              "later-life-scotland-handoff"
            ],
            "state": "supported"
          },
          {
            "jurisdiction": "Wales",
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              {
                "id": "wales-current-official-route",
                "primary_source": "later-life-wales-handoff",
                "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider",
                "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff"
              }
            ],
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              "later-life-wales-handoff"
            ],
            "state": "supported"
          },
          {
            "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland",
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              {
                "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route",
                "primary_source": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff",
                "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider",
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        "description": "Identify the territorial and local scheme, check its age and residence rules and apply through the responsible authority.",
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          "id": "later-life",
          "route": "life-course-domain/later-life",
          "title": "Later life"
        },
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          {
            "entry_state": "An older person wants to use or apply for concessionary public transport.",
            "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route",
            "kind": "ordinary",
            "order": 0,
            "outcome": "Identify the territorial and local scheme, check its age and residence rules and apply through the responsible authority.",
            "relationship_assertions": {
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              "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d12ab4a3453ef12613bf2778"
            },
            "route": "service-episode/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-ordinary-source-linked-route",
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                "channel": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source."
                },
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                  "state": "not_published_by_source"
                },
                "evidence": {
                  "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.",
                  "state": "not_published_by_source"
                },
                "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route",
                "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.",
                "order": 0,
                "outcome": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence."
                },
                "output": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff."
                },
                "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory",
                "redress": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority."
                },
                "relationship_assertions": {
                  "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0f4039fe975e8f2bdf7bd75a",
                  "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5d96b3e77770f5791ad05343",
                  "sources": [
                    {
                      "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dd196c21b216c9e6a038e81f",
                      "resource_route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-use-older-person-concessionary-travel-primary",
                      "source_id": "use-older-person-concessionary-travel-primary"
                    },
                    {
                      "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/999d191357ffbb74981deddb",
                      "resource_route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-later-life-scotland-handoff",
                      "source_id": "later-life-scotland-handoff"
                    },
                    {
                      "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5183fefb6b1c8454e9e663eb",
                      "resource_route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-later-life-wales-handoff",
                      "source_id": "later-life-wales-handoff"
                    },
                    {
                      "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b71a1587026d9bced39114c4",
                      "resource_route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff",
                      "source_id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff"
                    }
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                "requirements": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary."
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                "rule": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined."
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                  "use-older-person-concessionary-travel-primary",
                  "later-life-scotland-handoff",
                  "later-life-wales-handoff",
                  "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff"
                ],
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                  "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.",
                  "state": "not_published_by_source"
                }
              },
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                "assertion_status": "normalized",
                "channel": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "The channel published by the current source."
                },
                "cost": {
                  "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.",
                  "state": "not_published_by_source"
                },
                "evidence": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source."
                },
                "id": "follow-current-official-instructions",
                "interaction": "Follow the selected source to use older-person concessionary travel and retain its output or reference.",
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                "outcome": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "Identify the territorial and local scheme, check its age and residence rules and apply through the responsible authority."
                },
                "output": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information."
                },
                "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider",
                "redress": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route."
                },
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                  "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b084ca0aad87e3d552c542b2",
                  "sources": [
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                      "resource_route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-use-older-person-concessionary-travel-primary",
                      "source_id": "use-older-person-concessionary-travel-primary"
                    },
                    {
                      "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d59de9b8ca03cfc166305a49",
                      "resource_route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-later-life-scotland-handoff",
                      "source_id": "later-life-scotland-handoff"
                    },
                    {
                      "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/63312a7e3079805461fc3824",
                      "resource_route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-later-life-wales-handoff",
                      "source_id": "later-life-wales-handoff"
                    },
                    {
                      "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8b0f64e8d7855c79e046d494",
                      "resource_route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff",
                      "source_id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff"
                    }
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                "requirements": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction."
                },
                "route": "service-step/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions",
                "rule": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case."
                },
                "source_ids": [
                  "use-older-person-concessionary-travel-primary",
                  "later-life-scotland-handoff",
                  "later-life-wales-handoff",
                  "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff"
                ],
                "time": {
                  "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.",
                  "state": "not_published_by_source"
                }
              }
            ],
            "title": "Ordinary source linked route"
          },
          {
            "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.",
            "id": "exception-or-route-failure",
            "kind": "exception",
            "order": 1,
            "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.",
            "relationship_assertions": {
              "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ffc527ec986ac31f0ccde668",
              "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3dbaf6e5470b8e47f1f555f1"
            },
            "route": "service-episode/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-exception-or-route-failure",
            "steps": [
              {
                "assertion_status": "normalized",
                "channel": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route."
                },
                "cost": {
                  "reason": "Consult the current authority route.",
                  "state": "not_published_by_source"
                },
                "evidence": {
                  "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.",
                  "state": "not_published_by_source"
                },
                "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure",
                "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.",
                "order": 0,
                "outcome": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer."
                },
                "output": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state."
                },
                "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body",
                "redress": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable."
                },
                "relationship_assertions": {
                  "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b30516ce6ec542c9b2d09d55",
                  "sources": [
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                      "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2e4dd705a1a8a589b93c3cac",
                      "resource_route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-use-older-person-concessionary-travel-primary",
                      "source_id": "use-older-person-concessionary-travel-primary"
                    },
                    {
                      "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0f5134eb66ce92cc4d9061f9",
                      "resource_route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-later-life-scotland-handoff",
                      "source_id": "later-life-scotland-handoff"
                    },
                    {
                      "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/44db466f92b4f6d105e61f10",
                      "resource_route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-later-life-wales-handoff",
                      "source_id": "later-life-wales-handoff"
                    },
                    {
                      "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5f6bcda894015ab597fff037",
                      "resource_route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff",
                      "source_id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff"
                    }
                  ]
                },
                "requirements": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary."
                },
                "route": "service-step/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure",
                "rule": {
                  "state": "supported",
                  "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle."
                },
                "source_ids": [
                  "use-older-person-concessionary-travel-primary",
                  "later-life-scotland-handoff",
                  "later-life-wales-handoff",
                  "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff"
                ],
                "time": {
                  "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.",
                  "state": "not_published_by_source"
                }
              }
            ],
            "title": "Exception or route failure"
          }
        ],
        "id": "use-older-person-concessionary-travel",
        "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.",
        "limitations": [
          "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.",
          "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.",
          "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.",
          "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade."
        ],
        "narrative": {
          "body": "# Use older-person concessionary travel\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Secure later-life income and mobility** in the **Later life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the territorial and local scheme, check its age and residence rules and apply through the responsible authority.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Apply for an older person's bus pass](https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-elderly-person-bus-pass)\n- [Scotland: Benefits in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/benefits)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Pensions and retirement planning](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/pensions-and-retirement-planning)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Secure later-life income and mobility**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.",
          "process_context": "Secure later-life income and mobility",
          "source": "services/use-older-person-concessionary-travel.md",
          "title": "Use older-person concessionary travel within Secure later-life income and mobility"
        },
        "process": {
          "id": "secure-later-life-income-and-mobility",
          "route": "enclosing-process/secure-later-life-income-and-mobility",
          "title": "Secure later-life income and mobility"
        },
        "related_families": [
          {
            "id": "claim-attendance-allowance",
            "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process",
            "route": "dataset/claim-attendance-allowance",
            "sequenced": false,
            "title": "Claim Attendance Allowance"
          },
          {
            "id": "claim-pension-credit",
            "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process",
            "route": "dataset/claim-pension-credit",
            "sequenced": false,
            "title": "Claim Pension Credit"
          },
          {
            "id": "claim-state-pension",
            "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process",
            "route": "dataset/claim-state-pension",
            "sequenced": false,
            "title": "Claim State Pension"
          },
          {
            "id": "get-state-pension-forecast",
            "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process",
            "route": "dataset/get-state-pension-forecast",
            "sequenced": false,
            "title": "Get a State Pension forecast"
          },
          {
            "id": "manage-workplace-pension-in-retirement",
            "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process",
            "route": "dataset/manage-workplace-pension-in-retirement",
            "sequenced": false,
            "title": "Manage a workplace pension in retirement"
          }
        ],
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          "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/023c2c7348270cbd7a8f74d1",
          "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/40441eb929bdb34d9a0de33d"
        },
        "review": {
          "population_gate": "complete",
          "specialist_review": "required"
        },
        "route": "dataset/use-older-person-concessionary-travel",
        "situations": [
          "An older person wants to use or apply for concessionary public transport."
        ],
        "sources": [
          {
            "authority_role": "england_older_person_bus_pass_locator",
            "freshness": "check_before_each_use",
            "id": "use-older-person-concessionary-travel-primary",
            "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability",
            "jurisdictions": [
              "England"
            ],
            "limitations": [
              "Does not establish Scottish, Welsh or Northern Ireland schemes, decide eligibility or issue a pass."
            ],
            "observed_at": "2026-08-08",
            "owner": "Department for Transport",
            "position": 0,
            "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bab99b31f18c7006a7b17f14",
            "resource_id": "resource:use-older-person-concessionary-travel:use-older-person-concessionary-travel-primary",
            "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded",
            "route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-use-older-person-concessionary-travel-primary",
            "summary": "Routes eligible England applicants to the responsible local concessionary bus-pass service.",
            "title": "Apply for an older person's bus pass",
            "url": "https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-elderly-person-bus-pass"
          },
          {
            "authority_role": "scotland_later_life_benefit_handoff",
            "freshness": "check_before_each_use",
            "id": "later-life-scotland-handoff",
            "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability",
            "jurisdictions": [
              "Scotland"
            ],
            "limitations": [
              "Does not decide entitlement, pension, care, legal planning or health needs."
            ],
            "observed_at": "2026-08-08",
            "owner": "Scottish Government",
            "position": 1,
            "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0d08886ec06a7d90e07fe048",
            "resource_id": "resource:use-older-person-concessionary-travel:later-life-scotland-handoff",
            "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded",
            "route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-later-life-scotland-handoff",
            "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish benefit, disability and older-person support information.",
            "title": "Benefits in Scotland",
            "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/benefits"
          },
          {
            "authority_role": "wales_later_life_care_handoff",
            "freshness": "check_before_each_use",
            "id": "later-life-wales-handoff",
            "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability",
            "jurisdictions": [
              "Wales"
            ],
            "limitations": [
              "Does not assess needs, identify a local service, decide funding or cover every pension and legal-planning route."
            ],
            "observed_at": "2026-08-08",
            "owner": "Welsh Government",
            "position": 2,
            "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bc9cf78a8b9a83cbd9f133d5",
            "resource_id": "resource:use-older-person-concessionary-travel:later-life-wales-handoff",
            "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded",
            "route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-later-life-wales-handoff",
            "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh social-care policy, support and service information.",
            "title": "Social care in Wales",
            "url": "https://www.gov.wales/social-care"
          },
          {
            "authority_role": "northern_ireland_retirement_handoff",
            "freshness": "check_before_each_use",
            "id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff",
            "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability",
            "jurisdictions": [
              "Northern Ireland"
            ],
            "limitations": [
              "Does not decide pension entitlement, care, health or legal-planning needs."
            ],
            "observed_at": "2026-08-08",
            "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive",
            "position": 3,
            "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0c24cba2c8876fd1b815104d",
            "resource_id": "resource:use-older-person-concessionary-travel:later-life-northern-ireland-handoff",
            "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded",
            "route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff",
            "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland pension and retirement-planning information.",
            "title": "Pensions and retirement planning",
            "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/pensions-and-retirement-planning"
          }
        ],
        "status": "population_complete",
        "title": "Use older-person concessionary travel",
        "user_needs": [
          "Find the correct local route without assuming one UK age, mode or validity rule."
        ]
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