High mobility free tax disc question.

hoggle_2

I have been sent a letter saying I could be entitled to a free tax disc but having read the criteria its says the car must only be used for my personnal use and for shopping and getting perscriptons etc but our car is the family car so sometimes I use it alone and sometimes so does my partner so does this mean I cant claim a free disc?

Hammyman

All I will say on the subject is that plenty of people have disabled class tax on their cars and they're family cars. I doubt anybody has heard of anyone being caught. You'd be using it anyway which is a lot more morally acceptable than using the certificate to tax a car you never use.

sunnyone

Hammyman wrote: »

All I will say on the subject is that plenty of people have disabled class tax on their cars and they're family cars. I doubt anybody has heard of anyone being caught. You'd be using it anyway which is a lot more morally acceptable than using the certificate to tax a car you never use.

wrong, we got a letter from the DVLA threatening us with a fine if my tax disc stayed on one of my husbands cars which I was using while waiting for my new car but that car wasnt for my sole advantage, the DVLA see things as totally black and white and so do the traffic enforcement when they catch someone other than the person claiming DLA using the car (as was reproted in our local press two years ago when action was taken against many people for many diffrent crimes)

lkg-leicester_2

Hi, It seems from what u say that you do not have a motability car ?
If that is the case then the tax disc you will receive from using higher mobility is no different any other tax disc {apart from it is a benefit} and must only be displayed in the car that it has been issued to, in other words the car reg number on the tax disc must be the same as the car it is displayed in that is the law, as for use of that car I think of it this way, so long as the car is being used for your benefit being the disabled person which the benefit is intend there should no problem other than the insured drivers issue !
I'm in receipt of higher mobility allowance and my advise {for what it's worth} is get a motability car !! it is a fantastic scheme that has made such a difference to my life and my families lives, but ether way u should consider getting a "blue badge" if u have not already done so.
Hope this helps and should u need any help with "Motability" drop me a line. LKG

sunnyone

LKG-LEICESTER wrote: »

Hi, It seems from what u say that you do not have a motability car ?
If that is the case then the tax disc you will receive from using higher mobility is no different any other tax disc {apart from it is a benefit} and must only be displayed in the car that it has been issued to, in other words the car reg number on the tax disc must be the same as the car it is displayed in that is the law, as for use of that car I think of it this way, so long as the car is being used for your benefit being the disabled person which the benefit is intend there should no problem other than the insured drivers issue !
I'm in receipt of higher mobility allowance and my advise {for what it's worth} is get a motability car !! it is a fantastic scheme that has made such a difference to my life and my families lives, but ether way u should consider getting a "blue badge" if u have not already done so.
Hope this helps and should u need any help with "Motability" drop me a line. LKG

All cars must only bear the tax disc issued for that car, thats why the reg. is shown on ALL tax discs, disabled class discs are diffrent from everyone elses because it says DISABLED on them instead of how much was payed to tax the car :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

People are inteligent enough to work out if motability is suitable for them or not and they are normally inteligent enough to know that the tax discs issued to higher rate mobility awardees is diffrent as said above unlike you.

lkg-leicester_2

What a nice first message from an MSE member ! are they all like that ?

Hi Sunnyone, just to say the point I was trying to make and was well meaning is the fact that yes the road fund license cost displays "disabled" but it also displays the reg. of vehicle it can only used in and not any any old car you fancy whilst waiting for a new car to be delivered or what ever, THAT is the law.

As I have said I was only offering well meaning advise which as it turns out is correct as seems you know from your tussle with the DVLA :rotfl::rotfl::T THUD was a dent in your ego?
And I would like to mention that it is not a question of intelligence when it comes claiming benefits thats is why there are millions pounds of unclaimed every year people are ill in formed believe me I know, but it seem in your eyes/world anyone not claiming benefit they are entitled to are thick !
Well your Fantastically Fervent Fanship it's been fun we must do it again some time but before I go can I ask you is it cold up there ? on that pedestal or just lonely catch you later I hope. LKG

hobbledehoy.

Hello,

I have a rather vindictive neighbour who lost his HRM element 12 months ago due to failing to notify of an improvement in his condition. He was prosecuted and given a 12 month suspended prison sentence and told to repay a considerable amount of money. That I agree with entirely.

What I don't agree with is his one man war against mobility car owners and drivers that use their own cars but with 'free disabled tax'.

Every week he visits our local Tesco's & Sainsburys, watching for drivers that seem to flaunt the law. He is quite proud of the fact that out of the two towns he goes to, he has so far reported 204 cases to the DVLA.
He photographs them and keeps notes in a pocket book.
Obviously not all are guilty as he would make out, but ironically, and whether it is connected or not, now at least once a month, a combined DVLA/Police/DWP/Customs operation takes place in either or both of these venues.

The local paper regularly publishes the details of drivers caught using either the motability car incorrectly but more importantly, prosecutions for abuse of the 'Disabled Road Tax' disc. Up to now there must have been 40 such prosecutions. One was actually prosecuted for using 'red' diesel!

I would also mention that a large number of illegal immigrants were caught working touting to clean cars in the car parks.

The only silver lining in the cloud is that the disabled spaces at both superstores are nearly always empty! With that has come a reduction in minor bumps involving the general public and disabled drivers!

Evidence - Newspaper and a good friend who happens to be the Manager at Sainsburys!

It does make you wonder how many abuse the right across the country!

kaya

i have a disabled disc in my car, my wife uses it to go get shopping(food for me to eat), when i have taken too many painkillers to be safe driving she drops me off and picks me up in it, she gets the train to work, although it could be argued that she goes to work for my benefit or even uses it for work to enable her to come home in her lunch hour and prepare food FOR MY BENEFIT, its a bit of a grey area really and a prosecution would be dependent on where she told them she had been in it i suppose, the car is even registered in her name and not in mine, how can it be that if she went to tesco's in it alone(to get food and prescriptions) she could get prosecuted by the police? isnt everybody they stop in a supermarket car park using a disabled tax disc going to say they are going get shopping? , maybe your supermarket worker friend means they are prosecuting for blue badge abuse rather than tax discs?

dave030445

If you are not allowed to use the car as a "family car" why do they do 7 seater and family size cars on moblity there is always going to be a time when the disabled person is not in the car.