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Taxis program | Disabled persons

Taxis Subsidy Program (TSS) subsidizes half of the overall tariff, up to a limit of $25 per journey for severely disabled persons. Taxisubsidy program memberships last a max. of 5 years. In order to renew your subscription, you must re-register before the expiration date. When you have a transient incapacity to work, your period of affiliation can be between 6 and 12 years.

Handicap that requires dependency on a single chair for all outside use. A mental disorder or dementia that causes another passenger to be present at all times when travelling by means of local or regional passenger transportation. Serious emotion and/or behavioural disturbances with a degree of disorganization leading to the need to be escorted by another at any time when travelling by means of PT.

Go to your physician or healthcare professional and have them fill out parts B and B of the application forms. Send the filled out application with the photos to: No RTF is currently available for this document - please call 1300 134 755 if the PDF document is not available. NDIS is the new way of assisting disabled persons and so disabled people of Queensland will get their assistance for disabled persons as soon as NDIS is implemented at their site.

Persons who lose their entitlement to the grant because they transferred to NDIS will be reinstated by the end of June 2019. For more information on resuming your affiliation and to find answers to common queries, please visit the Department of Transport and Main Roads website. Information for those accessing the grant who live in areas where the NDIS is not yet available but will soon be available is also included.

For more information on taxi promotion, please contact the Ministry of Transport and Main Roads at 1300 134 755. Handicapped access taxi cabs have been implemented in over 50 local and remote areas through the sqconnect initiatives. These maps (PDF, 515KB) show the areas where there is now an available taxi.

To make a reservation, call the taxi company. To learn more about sqconnect, please go to the Department of Transport and Main Roads website or call 1300 134 755.