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  • krisskross
    krisskross Posts: 7,677 Forumite
    sh1305 wrote: »

    Where did you get the idea from that the car is completely free? if it was completely free, then tose people with the motability cars would also have the £50 cash per week in their hands.

    How much does someone with a motability car have to find out of their own pocket per week? That's right nothing. That makes it a free car in my eyes.

    Suggesting that it isn't free because you have to give up the £50 a week BENEFIT in exchange is the logic of the madhouse. After all it is a choice isn't it? You can keep the £50 and stay in the house if you want to.
  • Indie_Kid
    Indie_Kid Posts: 23,097 Forumite
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    krisskross wrote: »
    How much does someone with a motability car have to find out of their own pocket per week? That's right nothing. That makes it a free car in my eyes.

    Suggesting that it isn't free because you have to give up the £50 a week BENEFIT in exchange is the logic of the madhouse. After all it is a choice isn't it? You can keep the £50 and stay in the house if you want to.

    For some it isn't a choice. And many do have to pay for adaptions and advanced payments too.
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  • krisskross
    krisskross Posts: 7,677 Forumite
    sh1305 wrote: »
    For some it isn't a choice. And many do have to pay for adaptions and advanced payments too.

    There are always cars available with no advance payments. My neighbour had the adaptions done free.

    You are wriggling now.

    I bet there are very few (if any) people with a motability car that would want the scheme scrapped and they just get the £50 a week. But there is always the choice for everyone. Do tell me who it wouldn't be a choice for?
  • ash4becks
    ash4becks Posts: 589 Forumite
    krisskross wrote: »
    How much does someone with a motability car have to find out of their own pocket per week? That's right nothing. That makes it a free car in my eyes.

    Suggesting that it isn't free because you have to give up the £50 a week BENEFIT in exchange is the logic of the madhouse. After all it is a choice isn't it? You can keep the £50 and stay in the house if you want to.

    petrol cost you dont get that payed for or did you forget that:p
  • krisskross
    krisskross Posts: 7,677 Forumite
    ash4becks wrote: »
    petrol cost you dont get that payed for or did you forget that:p

    Bl***y Hell you don't want much do you?

    Now what was that I was saying about SOME disabled people appearing extremely grabby and greedy?
  • ash4becks
    ash4becks Posts: 589 Forumite
    krisskross wrote: »
    Bl***y Hell you don't want much do you?

    Now what was that I was saying about SOME disabled people appearing extremely grabby and greedy?

    did i say i wanted petrol payed for NO!!! i would be more than happy to pay for that myslef as it would get me around , you jumping in as ever i was just pointing out that in your eyes you may not pay for the car but petrol is a cost of having the car, were as you were saying that everything is free
  • DX2
    DX2 Posts: 8,275 Forumite
    ash4becks wrote: »
    did i say i wanted petrol payed for NO!!! i would be more than happy to pay for that myslef as it would get me around , you jumping in as ever i was just pointing out that in your eyes you may not pay for the car but petrol is a cost of having the car, were as you were saying that everything is free
    Whereas normal drivers pay for:
    Insurance
    Road tax
    MOT
    Servicing & repairs
    Petrol
    HP on the car

    Not a bad deal indeed for £50 per week ;)
    *SIGH*
    :D
  • ash4becks
    ash4becks Posts: 589 Forumite
    DX2 wrote: »
    Whereas normal drivers pay for:
    Insurance
    Road tax
    MOT
    Servicing & repairs
    Petrol
    HP on the car

    Not a bad deal indeed for £50 per week ;)

    i never said it wasnt and for a young driver aswell concidering insurence costs are min of a grand the last time i looked was a while ago , being a young driver you are restricted to cars you can drive i read but i do think that is fair but you dont get time towards no claims

    i will say some of the costs of addaptions are high depending on needs, even a wheelchair host was about a grand alone and not as if there always transferable to the next car for some people if there needs change
  • Oldernotwiser
    Oldernotwiser Posts: 37,425 Forumite
    cit_k wrote: »
    Considering, if everyone that is getting it (minus 0.5 percent fraud) is eligible and meets the criteria, how is it reasonable to pick 20 percent of those people and no longer pay them?

    .

    IF everybody getting it meets the criteria - that's a pretty big if!
  • krisskross
    krisskross Posts: 7,677 Forumite
    IF everybody getting it meets the criteria - that's a pretty big if!


    Yes IF they meet the criteria without embellishment and exaggeration on the claim forms. If they manage to complete the forms without CAB or DIAL to manipulate the information to include all the 'buzz phrases' etc.

    I asked Dial for assistance once to complete an AA form for my husband. It never got sent as neither of us could honestly agree with the way the DIAL representative manipulated the given information to skew the information towards a favourable (to my husband)result.

    I'd not be at all surprised if a lot of people whose forms are completed by external organisations get refused when they have to have a medical.
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