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

Denny_Crane

Soapn wrote: »

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

Oh yes, without a doubt. Of course, all the daily bargains that appear and the reduced goods sold in teh shops themselevs you can get with your delivery, oh wait, thats right, they dont have those on delivery, plus of course due to the fact that many disabled are on the breadline they can afford to pay the delivery prices and accept what is delivered.

What about when a disabled person runs out of milk say, will Tescos/ASDA deliver a single pint?

But thats OK, at least if the goods are delivered then all the disabled can be forgotten about ande hidden as they will never leave their houses eh?

Parva

clemmatis wrote: »

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.

Oh I fully appreciate what the point of the initial post was but unfortunately the benefit bashers had to derail it and I felt that it was worth putting over another point of view on that. As far as the OP's original query goes I think the Motability rules are pretty clear cut. If I were the OP I would retain the existing car and use the £51 whatever per week towards maintaining that in order to fulfill her transport duties to her son whilst not breaking Motability rules.

That's my personal opinion on the OP's post, there was no need for the usual trolls to see an opportunity to wage war on people that really do need those benefits.

GlasweJen

Even if motability allow it I don't think you can use a disabled tax disc in the above circumstances?

Denny_Crane

Parva wrote: »

Oh I fully appreciate what the point of the initial post was but unfortunately the benefit bashers had to derail it and I felt that it was worth putting over another point of view on that. As far as the OP's original query goes I think the Motability rules are pretty clear cut. If I were the OP I would retain the existing car and use the £51 whatever per week towards maintaining that in order to fulfill her transport duties to her son whilst not breaking Motability rules.

That's my personal opinion on the OP's post, there was no need for the usual trolls to see an opportunity to wage war on people that really do need those benefits.

Personally I do not believe she is breaking the rules.
The car is used to drop off the child at a place and then she goes to uni (or work in other cases). On the way back she picks up her child from a place.
She has teh car avaiolable to her just in case something goes down with her child.

Seems well within the guidelines.

wonderemxx

I cannot believe what some people have been saying. It seems the people who don't understand how the motability scheme works are getting on there high horses. Why should this person have to pay for a taxi just because the school isn't near their home?? Maybe a taxi is provided because the parents have to start work and if they took a child to the school they wouldnt get to work in time?

My husband used to use the access to work scheme to take him to school, then when he started work the taxi's would take him to and from his place of work. My husband had to pay approx £200 a month towards the cost of a taxi out of his pay and between the govenment and his employer they would pay the rest. This was because I work longer hours than my husband and couldnt take him myself.

I stopped working last year to care for his sick mother, so we cancelled his taxi contract and I have since then taken him to work and collected him. Yes we have a motability car and I am the only driver as he cannot drive. I drive him 19 miles to work in the morning then I go home and then I do the same trip in the afternoon- that's 76 miles a day when if were able to drive it would only be 38 miles. Obviously he is not in the car with me on 2 of the trips a day but I use the car as I am going to collect him.

It really annoys me when people think that those with a disability are getting something they don't get. As it's been said previously the car comes at a cost. The initial deposit is anything from Nil to £2000 now it's been capped. Yes many people can have a nil deposit car but most won't. Our car for example was around £1700 and not because it's luxurious but to be able to fit my husbands wheelchair and our luggage etc. If we took a small car for example a corsa- we would have to put the back seats down to fit the chair and wouldnt be able to carry passengers. Also by having a motability car you don't get paid the DLA it goes straight to the car. Able bodied people can have this in the form of a lease car!

What would people rather- a disabled person was stuck at home? For us the motability car is a blessing. Having the need to have a bigger car would mean my insurance would be huge due to us only being in our mid-twenties. Also it's the knowledge that if anything goes wrong we will be looked after!

If people don't understand how these schemes work then please don't say anything. It saves offending people!!

clemmatis

Parva wrote: »

Oh I fully appreciate what the point of the initial post was but unfortunately the benefit bashers had to derail it and I felt that it was worth putting over another point of view on that. As far as the OP's original query goes I think the Motability rules are pretty clear cut. If I were the OP I would retain the existing car and use the £51 whatever per week towards maintaining that in order to fulfill her transport duties to her son whilst not breaking Motability rules.

That's my personal opinion on the OP's post, there was no need for the usual trolls to see an opportunity to wage war on people that really do need those benefits.

Sorry, parva. Yes, I realise the benefit bashers had turned up, as usual, I just didn't want you to feel you were being attacked.

Your suggestion to the OP makes sense to me.

clemmatis

Byatt wrote: »

Are you eligble for Attendance Allowance?

http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/index/information-and-services/people-with-disabilities/financial-support-for-people-with-disabilites/attendance-allowance-people-with-disabilites/attendance-allowance-introduction.htm

I currently receive LRC DLA. I can't drop DLA and claim Attendance Allowance. But even if I could, Attendance Allowance has no mobility component. Basically, nobody over 65 can claim any mobility benefit.

But thank you, Byatt.

24skins

So, does anyone have the answer to my query - ie if my son got a Motability car would I have to hand it over to his dad once a fortnight or would me dropping him off & picking him up be acceptable?

My ex is a gambling addict and can't be trusted with anything of value...

Denny_Crane

clemmatis wrote: »

SoapN is a troll. But let me ask you what people who lack a car and become unable to walk to the shops after the age of 65 are supposed to do.

I'm one, I've just turned 66.

My milk is delivered daily, but also I keep UHT milk in. I can afford milk from the milkman and can afford supermarket delivery prices. I take full advantage of the reduced prices I can get buying online -- the ones you say are only available in the shops.

Would you like to campaign for mobility money for people like me?

I take it you have both a national pension and a private pension then I say this as people on national pension only do suffer the same as disabled interms of disposable income and many cannot afford supermarket deliver To many of them its food or heat. You are very lucky to live in an area with milk deliveries, thats not the same with many places.
You cannot get the reduced prices in the supermarkets from their on line delivery, such as sell by date food reduced to shift that day.

I would campaign for a better national pension for all pensioners, yes.

Denny_Crane

clemmatis wrote: »

I currently receive LRC DLA. I can't drop DLA and claim Attendance Allowance. But even if I could, Attendance Allowance has no mobility component. Basically, nobody over 65 can claim any mobility benefit.

But thank you, Byatt.

Thats not entirely correct. If you were awarded the HRMC before 65 you continue to recieve it after 65