Vehicle licence exemption

davmanway

An important benefit if you or your spouse receive the higher rate of disability allowance is exemption from payment of your car tax. Exemption is only available for one vehicle and it has to be used for the person who receives the disability living allowance eg to get that person to hospital appointments, picking up prescriptions etc.You need to apply for a certificate of entitlement to disability living allowance from the DWP which then has to be presented with the rest of the documentation to receive the tax disc.
Hope this helps.

pr1nc3ss

Might also be worth noting is that this is the higher rate of mobilty allowance and not the care component that is needed for exemption.

parki

Also when you get your full years tax disc,send your old tax disc back and claim a refund for the time left on it.

cw18

davmanway wrote: »

and it has to be used for the person who receives the disability living allowance eg to get that person to hospital appointments, picking up prescriptions etc..

I think this would be better worded as "must only be used for the benefit of......"

We can't apply for this, 'cos although I'd be alright using the car for the grocery shopping (that is for the benefit of DH who is the one in receipt of the DLA), as soon as I use the car to go and visit my friends, or my family, or to run my elder GD to her hospital appts, then I'm breaking the law.

As such (and for the sake of about 400-500 miles of the 4k I'm now doing a year) I have to continue paying the road tax on my car (which is the only car DH travels in)

sharon59

when l looked into this l realised as well how restrictive it is and cant be taken up by many people legally.another crafty way of not giving us too much!!!!

minimadtrix

My husband has done this for years, however, this year, we bought a new(ish) car, which was not through Motobility, but a private sale. It came with a few months road tax on it. Anyway, when it came to renewing the road tax at the end of September, we took his exemption certificate to the Post Office and they said that they needed the log book.

So, a half hour later, we went back with logbook and they sent it off to DVLA for us to have it updated to say it was a disabled car and therefore tax exempt.

The point I'm making is, if you've just started to receipt DLA higher mobility rate, once you get your exemption certificate from the DWP, take your logbook along too.

ohreally

The exemption certificate is DLA 404 for HRM recipients or WPA442 for WPMS.

hmpmdo

I lease my car through Motability and now instead of me having to take all my documentation to the post-office with my exemption cert. to get a new tax disc, for the last couple of years they've sent my new one to me automatically in the post without me having to do anything

Certainly makes things a lot easier.

Penny-Pincher!!

We have a private owned vehicle and receive free car tax. We re-new it each year on line and takes about 3 minutes to do. There are many restrictions but also alot of benefits like not paying toll fees etc.

PP
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downshifter98

Hi

Hope its OK to hop onto this thread.

Our car is currently 'disabled' registered (ie 'free' tax disc) as it was used to assist my mil as she was severely disabled - I say 'was' as she sadly passed away last week. After informing social services they have sent me a form to fill in and requested that I return the 'tax exemption' certificate and to send my tax disc back to the DVLA - all of this is as expected but as it will be impractical to sell the car immediately (indeed we may decide to keep it for our own use) I'm wondering how easy it is to just apply for a 'normal' tax disc until we decide what to do. I will ring up the DVLA but wondered if anyone had been through a similar experience and could offer any advice.

Regards

Downshifter98

Babshubbie

On the subject of road tax exemption, I think it is unfair that you can not claim exemption if you are over 65 years old.

This is a consequence of DLA not being paid to pensioners, (AA is paid instead), yet you need the DLA to claim exemption. Or is there a way of getting round this that I haven't spotted?