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Care Leavers aged between 18 and 25 who live in London can now apply for half price bus and tram travel.  You are only required to apply to this scheme once.  The photocard will then be valide until your 26th birthday. 

In order to be eligible you must be: 

• A London Care Leaver

• Aged between 18 and 25

• Living in a London Borough

• Getting no other free or discounted travel

As you are only able to have one photo card with TfL, it may not be to your advantage to apply to his scheme if you are a student and have an 18+ Student Oyster photocard or a Job Centre Plus Travel Discount as both of these schemes include discounted travel on the entire TfL network, including the London Underground.

If you wish to apply for the care leavers' concession, please complete this short Google Form so that we are able to confirm with TfL that you are a care leaver known to Hackney.  You will then apply for the scheme on the TfL website but please give it 2-3 weeks before you try to apply as it takes a bit of time for us to share information with TfL 

In order to apply, you'll need to have:

• An active email address

• Digital photo of you which must be a .gpg, .bmp or .gif file and be less than 6MB

• Details of a debit or credit card registered to a London borough address 

• £20 application fee - We will pay this for you.  Please speak to your personal advisor or social worker if you need financial support for this.  

More information can be found here.