Motability - Can I use my 'sons' car to go to Uni?

Denny_Crane

Soapn wrote: »

If you've been provided with a car from mobility BECAUSE of a person's disability, then that car should be used to take the person to school(it's detailed on another thread)

No. The disabled person has been awarded the Higher rate Motability Component of the Disability Living Allowance.
This sum currently £50 a week is for helping that person carryout actions which normal able bodied people take for granted.

This CAN be to lease a Motability operations car, or lease another car, or pay towards taxi fares, or pay someones petrol money or any other use.

The car as I see it is being used to take the child to child care, something thousands of able bodied people do day in, day out, they dont take their child to school as they ahve to be at work, college, hospital etc etc, before the school opens.

Why is this not a normal activity that the HRMC is used for???

colin13

I sometimes think that some healthy people are jealous of the disabled ,for being able to lease a new car every 3 years,which is also an option for healthy people, are we not entilted to make our lives a litttle bit easier,or are we to be put away in homes never to be seen again

Denny_Crane

colin13 wrote: »

I sometimes think that some healthy people are jealous of the disabled ,for being able to lease a new car every 3 years,which is also an option for healthy people, are we not entilted to make our lives a litttle bit easier,or are we to be put away in homes never to be seen again

Thats what teh Government is trying to do with PIP Colin :-)

jackieb

colin13 wrote: »

I sometimes think that some healthy people are jealous of the disabled ,for being able to lease a new car every 3 years,which is also an option for healthy people, are we not entilted to make our lives a litttle bit easier,or are we to be put away in homes never to be seen again

I'd agree with all of your post apart from the highlighted part. Many of us 'healthy' people can't afford to run a lease on a car, or change it every 3 years.

Parva

I picked up my brand new Focus yesterday as part of Motability and you know what? I'm sure as hell going to use it until PIP or any other plan the government dreams up takes it away!

I've worked all my life up until being struck down with severe leg pains. Long story short, went on holiday to Cyprus October 2011, broke my femur, uhoh nasty shadow. Came back to the UK and lost my entire leg and a lot of my backside due to the cancer that it turned out to be.

Came home just before Xmas 2011, constant pain from the op, inability to sleep on my right side and constant pains from the 'phantom' leg. Up until yesterday I've been pretty much imprisoned at home, I can't go anywhere in the wheelchair as I live a long way from any bus stop or even shop and I'm in too much pain to go any sort of distance anyway.

So I've finally got my Motability car, this house no longer needs to be my prison! I need my son or daughter here just to enable me to be able to get to the car for my freedom but let's say I could manage on crutches at a push.

I can only drive the car for 30-40 minutes due to half my bottom (sorry!) missing, it gets terribly uncomfortable otherwise. Fortunately my son is the other named driver so I can have him drive me.

It's been liberating having the ability to get out again, even after just this one day. I have spent so long indoors now, it's nice to be able to go and 'mingle', even if that does entail me being pushed in a wheelchair and the looks from people that I get due to the missing leg.

Yes, I'm giving up the mobility component of my DLA for this luxury but it will allow me to function as a member of society rather than being stuck inside my home as a prisoner. Perhaps some feel that we shouldn't get DLA and Motability and we should be made to stay at home, perhaps being stuck at home is a luxury to them, I don't know.

Me personally, I would like that leg back, I would like to be able to walk and more importantly, I would love to be able to sleep 'normally'. I would happilly give the car and all benefits up tomorrow!

Regardless, the benefit bashers have once again got stuck in here without a clue. I find life bad on one leg but given a disabled child I would happily lose the 2nd leg just for them to be 'normal'! My disability pales in comparison to the OP's childs problems and the benefit bashers amongst you should take a long hard look at yourselves (Soapn was expected, where's Uponahill gone?).

Offer practical advice and don't be judgemental, you never know when it might happen to you!

kingfisherblue

Excellent post Parva. Hope you enjoy your newfound freedom :j

Denny_Crane

jackieb wrote: »

I'd agree with all of your post apart from the highlighted part. Many of us 'healthy' people can't afford to run a lease on a car, or change it every 3 years.

hmm... Peugeot's "Just add fuel"
http://www.peugeot.co.uk/finance/finance-offers/just-add-fuel/107/

103 3 door Allure, £169 a month, £42.25 a week, not exactly a massive cost.

Abled and disabled people do have one thing in common however, and thats they decide what is more importatnt to them each week and what they spend their available income on.

However abled people do have one big advantage, and thats they can walk into town, then can carry bags of shopping home, they can then spend £50 a week on other things that are more important as they have a choice in the way they carry out normal day to day things.

clemmatis

Parva wrote: »

I picked up my brand new Focus yesterday as part of Motability and you know what? I'm sure as hell going to use it until PIP or any other plan the government dreams up takes it away!

I've worked all my life up until being struck down with severe leg pains.

Parva, this isn't about you having and using the car or your son driving you, and it isn't about the OP having a Motability car for use for her son's benefit. It's about her having the Motability car and her son also being taken to school by taxi, paid for by the council.

The OP has explained why, but it is not the same as your having a Motability car.

Soapn

Denny_Crane wrote: »

hmm... Peugeot's "Just add fuel"
http://www.peugeot.co.uk/finance/finance-offers/just-add-fuel/107/

103 3 door Allure, £169 a month, £42.25 a week, not exactly a massive cost.

Abled and disabled people do have one thing in common however, and thats they decide what is more importatnt to them each week and what they spend their available income on.

However abled people do have one big advantage, and thats they can walk into town, then can carry bags of shopping home, they can then spend £50 a week on other things that are more important as they have a choice in the way they carry out normal day to day things.

or they could jsut get their shopping delivered by Tesco or Asda

colin13

jackieb wrote: »

I'd agree with all of your post apart from the highlighted part. Many of us 'healthy' people can't afford to run a lease on a car, or change it every 3 years.

are you one of these people who thin it is a luxury,,I/we need our cars as a neccesity ,we aint able to walk to bus stop to use public transport,and taxis are very expensive,so better using the money for a car,give me your health,and I will fund my own car