Four services offered by the Public Authority for Disability Affairs on Kuwait’s portal, with three things in common: the fee is zero, the application is in person, and the hours are a morning shift ending at one.
The place and the time
The headquarters is in Hawally — block 11, Beirut Street, opposite Al Bayan Bilingual School, or one of the authority’s branches. The published window for each service is the same: eight in the morning until one. Anyone arriving after that has come on a different day.
The disability card
Issued to people with a disability only. Two documents are required: a valid civil ID for the person concerned, and a personal photograph. The fee is zero, fixed or variable.
The traffic plate
The condition is one line: a valid disability certificate. The document is a copy of the person’s civil ID. No fee.
The wheelchair
For mobility and physical disability, under three conditions: the person must be Kuwaiti or treated as Kuwaiti by a Ministry of Interior decision, the disability must be moderate or severe, and the entitlement cycle must be observed.
The cycle here reads by age: a chair every three years for anyone under sixteen, and every two years for anyone over. One document is required: a recent medical report.
The hearing aid
For hearing disability, under the same conditions of nationality, degree of disability and a recent medical report. The cycle, though, is reversed: an aid every three years for anyone over sixteen, and every two years for anyone under.
Worth noticing
None of the four services needs a form downloaded from the site, and none opens online. All four are a paper file carried to one place, within half a day.
Photo: hearing aids of different sizes on a table. By Vilma Liella, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Source: Kuwait’s e-government portal, the Public Authority for Disability Affairs service pages: issuing a disability card, a traffic plate, a wheelchair request, a hearing aid request.
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