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Cars with a disabled tax disc
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I have a blue badge and am so grateful for it. I don't care what anybody else knows or thinks, I use mine and have disabled stickers on my car so as people know.
Agree veggyboy.
I have the blue badge, but haven't applied for the tax disc, as 1] I don't drive and 2] the main car I use the blue badge in, is used for other purposes and not just for my benefit.
I don't understand why there would be an issue with the tax disc having the word disabled on it, as surely the size of the blue badge is much more conspicuous than the disc in any case.There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you - Beatrix Potter0 -
This seems to have turned into an 'I'm OK so your feelings don't count' thread...
Personally I don't have a problem with my tax disc being labelled disabled. However, as per the post above, it can lead to problems where the person in receipt of the benefit has a disability which is less obvious and this in turn can lead to victimisation. Most disabled people have enough to cope with already!
The disabled tax disc isn't available to everyone regardless of the level of their disability, the system discriminates against people who become disabled later in life and against those on lower incomes who can't afford to run a car solely for the benefit of the disabled person. E.G. How many single disabled mums can afford to have a car just for their own use? My older son used to play double bass - if I gave him a lift to school with his bass that surely would not be 'for my benefit'!Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants - Michael Pollan
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I think the problem could be that nosey neighbours peering into the car because they need, for some reason to work out how a new car appears every three years.
As we can see quite a bit on the benefit board there are people who jump to the wrong conclusion and think everyone, who mostly for no reason of their own are in a vulnerable, position are therefore forever in their debt.
Just like the people being verbally abused for using disabled bays legitimately.
Having said all that it doesn't bother me at all that it has disabled written on it because I am not easily intimidated but I do feel for those who are.
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This seems to have turned into an 'I'm OK so your feelings don't count' thread...
Personally I don't have a problem with my tax disc being labelled disabled. However, as per the post above, it can lead to problems where the person in receipt of the benefit has a disability which is less obvious and this in turn can lead to victimisation. Most disabled people have enough to cope with already!
The disabled tax disc isn't available to everyone regardless of the level of their disability, the system discriminates against people who become disabled later in life and against those on lower incomes who can't afford to run a car solely for the benefit of the disabled person. E.G. How many single disabled mums can afford to have a car just for their own use? My older son used to play double bass - if I gave him a lift to school with his bass that surely would not be 'for my benefit'!
No you are being ridiculous. My car is for my benefit, which doesn't preclude my family members travelling in it too. As I have my car, I can take my son to school, drop my hubby at the station, etc, they are all things which allow me to live a 'normal life'. Which counts as being 'for my benefit'.
If my husband took the car to work everyday, so I couldn't use it (as a driver or a passenger), then it wouldn't be used for my benefit.I try not to get too stressed out on the forum. I won't argue, i'll just leave a thread if you don't like what I say.
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We have wheelchair accessible vehicle for our son.Ramp comes out of the back.There is a notice asking people not to park within 10 feet to allow access.I cant believe how many people ignore this.Many times I have had to move to get him in.This only works if there is someone else to stay with him while i do so!!!!
Its something that puts me off using a wav. Several of my friends have vans with lifts in the back and say that parking is a nightmare.
I just keep straining my back lifting both my son and the wheelchair in and out of the car.
With the stickers, I agree that it sometimes doesnt seem to make any difference, but then we are never around when someone parks to close, gets out, sees the sticker, and the repositions their car further away.
Just because we dont see it, doesnt mean that sometimes it doesnt happen.
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longhotbath wrote: »Its something that puts me off using a wav. Several of my friends have vans with lifts in the back and say that parking is a nightmare.
I just keep straining my back lifting both my son and the wheelchair in and out of the car.
Oh longhotbath, surely, that is only a problem with on-street parking? In most car parks you're parking alongside each other, rather than in-front & behind (IYSWIM?). So the rear access would be easier.
It's no good you keep straining your back, what if you end up permanently disabled too?
I think you need to consider it as your boy gets bigger.I try not to get too stressed out on the forum. I won't argue, i'll just leave a thread if you don't like what I say.0 -
No you are being ridiculous. My car is for my benefit, which doesn't preclude my family members travelling in it too. As I have my car, I can take my son to school, drop my hubby at the station, etc, they are all things which allow me to live a 'normal life'. Which counts as being 'for my benefit'.
If my husband took the car to work everyday, so I couldn't use it (as a driver or a passenger), then it wouldn't be used for my benefit.
Am I? The DVLA don't appear to think so. It doesn't preclude family members travelling with you but the travelling has to be for your benefit not theirs...
Does your husband earn enough to allow you to use your DLA to keep a car for your own benefit? Without my DLA I couldn't afford the basic bills let alone set it all aside just for the car.Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants - Michael Pollan
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Does your husband earn enough to allow you to use your DLA to keep a car for your own benefit? Without my DLA I couldn't afford the basic bills let alone set it all aside just for the car.
Yes my DLA (mobility component) is all used for my car, which is leased on the motability scheme (which I consider to be very good value).
BTW, I earn money too. I may be disabled, but not totally dependant on my husband.I try not to get too stressed out on the forum. I won't argue, i'll just leave a thread if you don't like what I say.0 -
longhotbath wrote: »Ohh, forgot to add - we have put stickers on the car to suggest to other drivers that they allow sufficient room to open his car door wide. I suppose thats drawing attention to whole disabled thing too?!
when I cant get disabled space,,ive a habit of parking over 2 space,so tht ther is plenty room for me0 -
Oh longhotbath, surely, that is only a problem with on-street parking? In most car parks you're parking alongside each other, rather than in-front & behind (IYSWIM?). So the rear access would be easier.
It's no good you keep straining your back, what if you end up permanently disabled too?
I think you need to consider it as your boy gets bigger.
Hi easy, I do know what you mean, but my home town has 3 multistory car parks - one doesnt have the headroom for vans!, in one, the disabled parking is front/behind with side by side around them, but little clearing space, and the third - built only 3 years ago has low headroom, and lifts you cannot get a double buggy in, and 3 heavy doors between car park and lifts. We have 1 street level car park which is like gold dust- as a result, we tend to clog up the streets.
With my back - dodgy at the best of times - we do conductive education with our son and are now able to get him to take some weight through his legs, and we have a car seat with rotating base, which makes the lifting slightly easier. .
As he gets bigger, we may look at a car seat that comes out of the car, lowers and rotates. (they are amazing!!)0
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