Disabled parents and school

Zoelikesjam

sunnyone wrote: »

you cant pay for the tax disc on a motability car, its not allowed.

I will certainly look into the tax disc issue and buying one ourselves is certainly no problem.

As sunnyone pointed out, you can't buy a tax disc for a motability car, I am sure she will clear up any of my mistakes, but Sunnyone, is there not a way to get round that by simply buying another tax disc and using both? Or am I being totally dense and that is simple not possible? Thinking to myself now actually, in order to buy tax you would need insurance, MOT and the log book and as motability provide all that, it wouldn't be a possibility. Do Motability hold all the documents or do you have all the documentation? Am I right in my thinking?

The fact that a car will be used for work also is all that some seem to care about and would aparently be happier if we weren't able as a family to be out of the house at all except at night

I think you'll find the issue is that in a previous post you said-

Yep it's just for him we never go anywhere together at all.

Unfortunately, that is bound to get other peoples backs up.

DLA has never accounted for wether or not you care for children and it is never intended for that if I spent all of my mobility component on taxi's twice a day (it wouldn't actually be enough though) then I would have none for my mobility needs at all and we would be faced with giving up the car all together .

No, you are right, DLA is not accountable towards your children's care. It IS however, to help make your normal, everyday life easier. It is to help with getting out and about and to pay for any care needs you might find you, personally, need. As you have found, one of your biggest needs is to get your children to and from school. Therefore your DLA should be put towards it. If you find your mobility component has gone after you ferry the kids about, use your care component towards getting you out and about.
But as you have already stated several times, you don't go out without your husband, so you have admitted as much yourself, you don't need it for anything else! I find it slightly infuriating that I(and many thousands of other disabled parents) have had to pay for a child minder out of DLA, as, as parents we see this as a 'care/mobility' need, but you seem unwilling to even comprehend this idea? I'm sorry if this isn't the case, it's just that words, or lack of' can be misleading on here, and that is how it comes across.
I've already mentioned it, but you should be able to get help with the cost of a child minder through Tax credits, therefore you would only need to 'top it up' out of your DLA.

As for entitlement because my dissability is sight related I come under the new rule change from April the first, they have asked for our CVI's (documents that register us as blind and give our measurement of sight) if your sight is below a certain level then you are entitled and mine is well below it.

That's cleared that one up for me, I didn't mean to pry I was just interested in what changed in April! Do you know for definite that you will be given an award for more than 3years though? Because if you aren't awarded it for that length of time, you won't get a car either way.

jetta_wales

The "yep it's just for him' was quite clearly a sarcastic retort to a judgmental little dig and sarcasm was all it deserved.

I have the answers I posted for and they were very helpful I really don't care about all the wild assumptions and judgments that people wish to make that is of no importance to me.

P.S. I was not sent packing lol I just came less often then didn't bother at all.

Zoelikesjam

If it was quite clearly a sarcastic retort I wouldn't have perceived it in such a way. As I said earlier, words, or lack of can be easily mistook, especially on here.

welshmoneylover

Jetta-Wales, if you are so concerned about getting your children to school, why don't you pay money yourself to ensure they get there safely?

You have the extra benefits to pay for it, surely your partner can pay for his own car out of his own money?

snookey

My advice would be for your o/h to ask his boss for flexi hours if possible. I would also look into asking another parent to take your children to school/ My health visitor arranged for another parent who lived near me to pick up and drop off my child .

krisskross

snookey wrote: »

My advice would be for your o/h to ask his boss for flexi hours if possible. I would also look into asking another parent to take your children to school/ My health visitor arranged for another parent who lived near me to pick up and drop off my child .

Ah but had the other parent been CRB checked:rotfl:

GlasweJen

Surely your able-bodied husband can arrange to drop off and pick up the children from school if he's so desperate to use and abuse your mobility allowance?

Single parents make use of things like breakfast clubs and after school cares to manage making work and school fit together so perhaps you could try this? No doubt you'll get some help towards the fees from the tax credits as you're classed as disabled so this way you can have your cake AND eat it (as long as your husband doesn't get done for tax disc fraud).

jetta_wales

I've no intrest in replying to snide posts that from the few that have just want to insult but will clarify that with both road tax and motability it is perfectly acceptable for a spouse or parent living with the disabled person to use the vehicle for work also. It did not used to be the case but it is now.

Zoelikesjam

It is okay for a spouse to use the car

It is NOT okay for him to use the car if you have used your TAX exemption to obtain tax for said car. And if motability have told you that then by all means go ahead, but if your husband gets caught, then I sure as hell hope you recorded the phone call.

blue_monkey_2

The irony with that statement is that not all kids on DLA get HRM, and not all parents would use it to buy a vehicle. Most kids do not get transport to school either.

They usually get paid transport when the local school has been unable to cope with their care needs and so they are sent elsewhere - this is when the council steps in with transport as it has been agreed by the LA. If I CHOOSE to sent my son to the local special school as he cannot cope in mainstream, I'll not get transport. If the local school cannot cope with him and say he has to go, then I will get transport. Most kids who go to schools for children with Autism do not get HRM either.

My son's care componant pays for, er, care. That is what it is for. He gets MRC despite him needing 1:1 care all of the time and that money goes on carers if we need to go somewhere and my husband cannot come with me. He cannot go out for the day with friends and family, there always has to be someone there for him.

The way I see it, the OP is getting HRM, that should be used for HER as she is now trapped in the house all day despite getting a benefit that means she can get out of the house.. If SHE needs to get the kids to school then the HRM should pay for that.

As someone has pointed out. Get a childminder to take them in as if you are on that little money, you'll get childcare paid anyway with Tax Credits.