Question about use of the car on the Motability Scheme?

sunnyone

This would be abuse of the scheme as the car and road tax are for the benfit of the disabled person only, they cant get a car and give it to you for you to transport your kids arounds etc as your own family vehicle.

I cant see why you cant travel the way you do know and just have the car for the benefit of the disabled person though, you dont have a family car now so it would be no diffrent to you apart from the perks of getting your own shopping in etc. while you are running errands for the disabled person.

nannytone_2

i think youre being overly harsh sunnyone.

families with a disabled person, cant be expected to use the car soley for the disabled member.

ive said previously, that i had a severeky disabled grandchild, who needed a particular type of vehicle to meet his needs. should my son in law have used that vehicle to take my grandson to nusery, then return home to swap cars .... then drop my pther grandson at school, then go to work?

then come from work, pick the older boy up, return home ... swap cars again, then pick the younger one from nursery?

the fact that both parents worked was of 'benefit' for the child.
so using the car to go to worl could be said was for the childs benefit in itself!

OP...dropping the kids off on the way to your relatives house WOULD, in my opinion, be within the rules. as would doing your own shopping whilst doing the relatives shopping.

if the rules were so strictly adhered to.... the whole 'benefit' of qualifying for a motability car would be totally lost!

seven-day-weekend

My husband has been asked to be a named driver on a young friend's motability car. However, the young man drives everywhere himself, so my husband would not be required to drive it much, if at all. Why then does our friend need a named driver (haven't asked him about it yet, the request was very rushed). Is it a requisite of having a motoability car?

sunnyone

nannytone wrote: »

i think youre being overly harsh sunnyone.

families with a disabled person, cant be expected to use the car soley for the disabled member.

ive said previously, that i had a severeky disabled grandchild, who needed a particular type of vehicle to meet his needs. should my son in law have used that vehicle to take my grandson to nusery, then return home to swap cars .... then drop my pther grandson at school, then go to work?

then come from work, pick the older boy up, return home ... swap cars again, then pick the younger one from nursery?

the fact that both parents worked was of 'benefit' for the child.
so using the car to go to worl could be said was for the childs benefit in itself!

OP...dropping the kids off on the way to your relatives house WOULD, in my opinion, be within the rules. as would doing your own shopping whilst doing the relatives shopping.

if the rules were so strictly adhered to.... the whole 'benefit' of qualifying for a motability car would be totally lost!

In this is a case where any old family memeber is getting a car to use as their own on the premis that they do a bit running around for the HRM claimant and its against the rules and the law because of the tax disc.

Motability isnt their to provide vehicles for anyone and everyone, they are their to provide vehicles for severely mobility impaired people who should have access to THEIR vehicles, how can they have access when they have to fit in with a relatives kids schedual/shopping schedual?

I think I will get my son the car he wanst next year, he will be 17 then so his insurance will be horrendous, he is me and my husbands carer so he has the right to a motability car then?

He is a college and having the car will allow him to get home earlier to care for me or his dad in emergencies right, he cant get carers allowance so the car can be his reward for all the help he gives us.

At least in my son's case the car would be at my home address over 85% of the week if I needed it myself and he could be home in 20 minutes at other times when he/it is needed, the car would even be adapted for me to drive and be big enough for my wheelchair.

Hey we might as well go a look at cars then, but I would never break the rules by doing that nor would I break the law by abusing the tax disc.

My son's case is much more valid than the OP's but decent people dont break the law/rules so my son will have to continue saving for a car/insurance like every other 16 year old who wants a licence/vehicle as soon as he legally can.

System

sunnyone wrote: »

In this is a case where any old family memeber is getting a car to use as their own on the premis that they do a bit running around for the HRM claimant and its against the rules and the law because of the tax disc.

Motability isnt their to provide vehicles for anyone and everyone, they are their to provide vehicles for severely mobility impaired people who should have access to THEIR vehicles, how can they have access when they have to fit in with a relatives kids schedual/shopping schedual?

I think I will get my son the car he wanst next year, he will be 17 then so his insurance will be horrendous, he is me and my husbands carer so he has the right to a motability car then?

He is a college and having the car will allow him to get home earlier to care for me or his dad in emergencies right, he cant get carers allowance so the car can be his reward for all the help he gives us.

At least in my son's case the car would be at my home address over 85% of the week if I needed it myself and he could be home in 20 minutes at other times when he/it is needed, the car would even be adapted for me to drive and be big enough for my wheelchair.

Hey we might as well go a look at cars then, but I would never break the rules by doing that nor would I break the law by abusing the tax disc.

My son's case is much more valid than the OP's but decent people dont break the law/rules so my son will have to continue saving for a car/insurance like every other 16 year old who wants a licence/vehicle as soon as he legally can.

Don't forget that the vehicles are limited with a 17 YO driver

Drivers under the age of 25 can only drive cars in the lower ABI insurance groups of one to 16 and with a brake horsepower rating of 115BHP or less.

mandiskem

i have been a motability customer for years they are clamping down on a few things like the named drivers you got to live within 5 mile radious of the mobility customer to be insured .

seven-day-weekend

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

My husband has been asked to be a named driver on a young friend's motability car. However, the young man drives everywhere himself, so my husband would not be required to drive it much, if at all. Why then does our friend need a named driver (haven't asked him about it yet, the request was very rushed). Is it a requisite of having a motoability car?

I know it's a bit OT, but does anyone know the answer to my question?

System

Only your young friend can answer why he wants your husband as a named driver.

seven-day-weekend

!!!!!! wrote: »

Only your young friend can answer why he wants your husband as a named driver.

OK fine, we'll be talking to him soon. I just wondered if it was a pre-requisite for having a motability car.

Mojisola

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

My husband has been asked to be a named driver on a young friend's motability car. However, the young man drives everywhere himself, so my husband would not be required to drive it much, if at all. Why then does our friend need a named driver (haven't asked him about it yet, the request was very rushed). Is it a requisite of having a motoability car?

Obviously ask him but I would guess that it's just in case he isn't well enough to drive himself on occasions.