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Motability - Can I use my 'sons' car to go to Uni?
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as has been said ,it has to be used for the benefit of the person on DLA,you could stretch the point that by ggoing to uni,you aare bettering yourself,to be able to get better job,forr more money for your son,to me it is just the samee as people using them to go tto work,and we can not say that dosent get done,,but if you want to be 100% sure phone and ask advice0
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Which school run? To breakfast club - I do. Breakfast club to school and back again (special needs support unit) the council pay for
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The council tax payer !
Why is the taxpayer funding you a free car, and then having to pay again for a taxi to take him to school.
I really cannot believe this is going on.0 -
Which school run? To breakfast club - I do. Breakfast club to school and back again (special needs support unit) the council pay for
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The council tax payer !
Why is the taxpayer funding you a free car, and then having to pay again for a taxi to take him to school.
I really cannot believe this is going on.
Because children with disabilities often need to go to schools miles away from home and 70-100 cars turning up every morning would be a logistical nightmare for the school. It would take upwards of an hour just to get the children through the door, which in turn would affect the parents' availability for work.Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum videtur0 -
Which school run? To breakfast club - I do. Breakfast club to school and back again (special needs support unit) the council pay for
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The council tax payer !
Why is the taxpayer funding you a free car, and then having to pay again for a taxi to take him to school.
I really cannot believe this is going on.
Council tax payer like me?
Tax payer like my husband? Like me before I ended up being told that my son would never walk or talk?
You know what I can't believe goes on? That doctors in 2005 still didn't diagnose a placentral abuption when a patient presented with severe abdominal pain, lack of fetal movement and a constant contraction with a history of pre eclampsia, as an inpatient. But !!!! happens.
If the local primary school could understand him (he can't speak, he has dyscalcula, his right side is stiff, he has limited use of his right arm, no real use of his right hand, is dyslexic to the point of being unable to remember letters never mind read, can't tell the difference between yellow and green, has no spatial awareness, does not understand the concepts of 'in, on, under' I could go on. Oh and now his kidneys are starting to fail, he gets headaches where he is unable to move, he vomits in his sleep is incontinent at night and awaiting a biopsy, how much is he costing the NHS huh?) he would be there, but they cant so he is at a special needs unit since they stopped locking them up and all.
Getting a 'free car' is totally awesome, getting a taxi to take him to a school while he brother and sister (in a few years) go to a different school is also amazing. Having therapists on call and spending nights in hospital is such great use of council funds.
I totally did it for the money :cool:
Ofcourse if one doctor had actually examined me in the 9 hours I spent complaining of the above-mentioned abruption signs, they would have managed to get him out before he suffered a massive stroke due to oxygen starvation as the placenta detatched from my uterus before he was born and right now I'd be a happy mother of 3 healthy, happy children all going to the same local primary school with no idea at all about school transport for special needs children.0 -
Because children with disabilities often need to go to schools miles away from home and 70-100 cars turning up every morning would be a logistical nightmare for the school. It would take upwards of an hour just to get the children through the door, which in turn would affect the parents' availability for work.
But 70-100 taxis is OK ?
It is the parents responsibility to get their child to school, not the council tax payer.
The OP receives DLA high in relation to the child.This is used to pay for a car.The car should be used to take the child to school.
The OP has made a lifestyle choice to go to Uni and the taxpayer is expected to pick up the bill.
Why is the taxpayer paying twice ?0 -
But 70-100 taxis is OK ?
It is the parents responsibility to get their child to school, not the council tax payer.
The OP receives DLA high in relation to the child.This is used to pay for a car.The car should be used to take the child to school.
The OP has made a lifestyle choice to go to Uni and the taxpayer is expected to pick up the bill.
Why is the taxpayer paying twice ?
3 chilren to a car.
The council allocated my son a school that was able to cope with his needs and provide him with an education. In a different town. They pay the taxi fares. I'd guess the view that by doing that, they will end up with a child who will grow into a literate adult rather than be unable to read or write later in life. Then the hope is that he can work and pay back into the system. I don't have the knowledge on how to teach a child with brain damage how to read when one side of his bran is unable to process information.
He now receives high rate DLA, not for his disability but for his kidney condition which has a negative impact on his disability. It is not used to pay for a car. It may be used to pay for a car.
Even if it is, how do you propose I be in two places at once?
I did indeed make a lifestyle choice to go to Uni. I could sit at home and wallow in misery while claiming all those wonderful benefits I;d get. But I don't, I work my pretty little butt of to be educated so that when my son is older and hopefully, independant I can return to work. The tax payer does not pay for me to go to Uni, I will pay it back later on. Same as every other student.
So, how is the taxpayer paying twice?0 -
But 70-100 taxis is OK ?
It is the parents responsibility to get their child to school, not the council tax payer.
The OP receives DLA high in relation to the child.This is used to pay for a car.The car should be used to take the child to school.
The OP has made a lifestyle choice to go to Uni and the taxpayer is expected to pick up the bill.
Why is the taxpayer paying twice ?
They don't send 100 taxis, they have wheelchair accessible minibuses; my son's 68-pupil school has 7. The kids still take around 20 minutes to be dropped off, obviously time has to be allowed for dropping the tailgates etc.
I've received HRM DLA for a decade and my son has been transported to nursery & school for all that time - I wouldn't be able to work (and attend Uni) otherwise and would be on benefits - as would the other 67 families whose children attend the same school.
ps We're all taxpayers too - just because we have disabled children doesn't mean we have our tax bills waived.Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum videtur0 -
Council tax payer like me?
Tax payer like my husband? Like me before I ended up being told that my son would never walk or talk?
You know what I can't believe goes on? That doctors in 2005 still didn't diagnose a placentral abuption when a patient presented with severe abdominal pain, lack of fetal movement and a constant contraction with a history of pre eclampsia, as an inpatient. But !!!! happens.
If the local primary school could understand him (he can't speak, he has dyscalcula, his right side is stiff, he has limited use of his right arm, no real use of his right hand, is dyslexic to the point of being unable to remember letters never mind read, can't tell the difference between yellow and green, has no spatial awareness, does not understand the concepts of 'in, on, under' I could go on. Oh and now his kidneys are starting to fail, he gets headaches where he is unable to move, he vomits in his sleep is incontinent at night and awaiting a biopsy, how much is he costing the NHS huh?) he would be there, but they cant so he is at a special needs unit since they stopped locking them up and all.
Getting a 'free car' is totally awesome, getting a taxi to take him to a school while he brother and sister (in a few years) go to a different school is also amazing. Having therapists on call and spending nights in hospital is such great use of council funds.
I totally did it for the money :cool:
Ofcourse if one doctor had actually examined me in the 9 hours I spent complaining of the above-mentioned abruption signs, they would have managed to get him out before he suffered a massive stroke due to oxygen starvation as the placenta detatched from my uterus before he was born and right now I'd be a happy mother of 3 healthy, happy children all going to the same local primary school with no idea at all about school transport for special needs children.
I did not dispute the DLA award.
All of the above I assume you would take up with your local hospital.
Your post does not answer why you need a taxi to take him to school when you have an allowance to pay for the extra costs incurred by his disability.
The extra costs are the travel to a different school, which he would not need if he was not disabled.0 -
They don't send 100 taxis, they have wheelchair accessible minibuses; my son's 68-pupil school has 7. The kids still take around 20 minutes to be dropped off, obviously time has to be allowed for dropping the tailgates etc.
I've received HRM DLA for a decade and my son has been transported to nursery & school for all that time - I wouldn't be able to work (and attend Uni) otherwise and would be on benefits - as would the other 67 families whose children attend the same school.
ps We're all taxpayers too - just because we have disabled children doesn't mean we have our tax bills waived.
Pay for the taxi yourself out of the DLA.You could still work or go to Uni.0 -
I did not dispute the DLA award.
All of the above I assume you would take up with your local hospital.
Your post does not answer why you need a taxi to take him to school when you have an allowance to pay for the extra costs incurred by his disability.
The extra costs are the travel to a different school, which he would not need if he was not disabled.
I did answer, twice, as to why he has a taxi to school. You seem to be unable to understand simple answers.
I could send him to the local primary school with a full time assistant which I am sure would cost more than a taxi twice a day.0
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