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Motability car, named drivers and parking - please help?!
Hello all, I hope I have this in the right section.
My mother has recently entered into an agreement with motability to become a named driver for my father who has become very ill in recent years. He had a license, but is now unable to drive so my mother is the sole driver of the car.
The issue is, they have been separated for about 10 years and live at different addresses. So far she has been using a visitor's permit for her estate so she can park directly outside her home, but you are only allowed two "10 space" vouchers per month, and spaces are limited.
To park on the road she needs a council permit, but they are only able to issue her with one for 3 months, due to the car being registered to my father. After this they suggest she use a 'companion' badge but it is my understanding she cannot use this unless my father is in the car.
Is there any way around this? I don't drive and know nothing about parking. It is causing both of my parents a lot of stress, and I would like to offer some advice if I can.
My mother has recently entered into an agreement with motability to become a named driver for my father who has become very ill in recent years. He had a license, but is now unable to drive so my mother is the sole driver of the car.
The issue is, they have been separated for about 10 years and live at different addresses. So far she has been using a visitor's permit for her estate so she can park directly outside her home, but you are only allowed two "10 space" vouchers per month, and spaces are limited.
To park on the road she needs a council permit, but they are only able to issue her with one for 3 months, due to the car being registered to my father. After this they suggest she use a 'companion' badge but it is my understanding she cannot use this unless my father is in the car.
Is there any way around this? I don't drive and know nothing about parking. It is causing both of my parents a lot of stress, and I would like to offer some advice if I can.
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1: Move back in with your dad.
2: Leave your dad's motability car at his, drive there in the estate then drive him where he needs to go.
3: Sell the Estate and drive the motability car full time.
NO way around it. Why should there be.Near a tree by a river, there's a hole in the ground.
Where an old man of Aran goes around and around....0 -
1: Move back in with your dad.
2: Leave your dad's motability car at his, drive there in the estate then drive him where he needs to go.
3: Sell the Estate and drive the motability car full time.
NO way around it. Why should there be.
1. My mum is not going to move back in with my dad because they seperated TEN years ago.
2. He lives too far away for my mother to commute backwards and forwards.
3. The estate is a HOUSING ESTATE.
And there should be a allowances for nominated drivers. Otherwise why have them?
SO NO thank you for the rude tone and extremely UNHELPFUL advice (don't know why you bothered). But thankfully there is a similar thread on the same issue, and some very helpful advice in it.0 -
I thought a named driver on motability now had to live within a couple of miles? What name is the insuarnce in? Doesnt the car have to be sub-registered to the address of the DLA so if you get a ticket etc motability can forward it, if so would the insuranceb state the car should be kept at that address overnight?
Surely if you can, in essence, give the car to someone miles away and have no paperwork in your name and address the system would be far too open to abuse? Wouldnt motability question it?
Sorry not trying to be rude, I had a motability car 3 years ago so dont really know how it works now. Did your dad not have to give his license etc for the insurance? I know parking tickets were forwarded to my address from motability and I had to be the 'owner' for my child0 -
I thought a named driver on motability now had to live within a couple of miles? What name is the insuarnce in? Doesnt the car have to be sub-registered to the address of the DLA so if you get a ticket etc motability can forward it, if so would the insuranceb state the car should be kept at that address overnight?
Surely if you can, in essence, give the car to someone miles away and have no paperwork in your name and address the system would be far too open to abuse? Wouldnt motability question it?
Sorry not trying to be rude, I had a motability car 3 years ago so dont really know how it works now. Did your dad not have to give his license etc for the insurance? I know parking tickets were forwarded to my address from motability and I had to be the 'owner' for my child
I don't think the insurance is in anyone's name. My father in law has a motability car and we went on holiday with him earlier this year, he is allowed 3 named drivers on the insurance and decided he wouldn't be doing any of the driving so had himself removed from the insurance and put me on for the week.0 -
Doesnt there have to be a main address though? Who the insurance should contact if a claim was put in against them etc? And for sake of benefit fraud would this not have to be the same as the person claiming the benefit?
Im confused by it all lol... Would benefits also have something to say if, say someone reported it as fraud and they investigated, they saw it being kept/used by someone living miles away?
My sister has a motability car and everything is registered to her address, when her and her husband split up she had to stop him using the car as he lived in the next county and it was all in her address, even though he was the only one that could drive to come take her disabled child to appointments0 -
Perhaps the car could be registered at mother's address?"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Ride hard or stay home :iloveyou:0 -
1. My mum is not going to move back in with my dad because they seperated TEN years ago.
2. He lives too far away for my mother to commute backwards and forwards.
it.
The last bit worries me. Your mother has the car as a direct benefit to your father, yet cannot commute in it to see your father as she lives too far away?
I am reading that as a suggestion that car is permanently with your mother and doesn't benefit your father in any way?I’m a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on the eBay, Auctions, Car Boot & Jumble Sales, Boost Your Income, Praise, Vents & Warnings, Overseas Holidays & Travel Planning , UK Holidays, Days Out & Entertainments boards. If you need any help on these boards, do let me know.. Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any posts you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button, or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com.All views are my own and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.0 -
1. My mum is not going to move back in with my dad because they seperated TEN years ago.
2. He lives too far away for my mother to commute backwards and forwards.
3. The estate is a HOUSING ESTATE.
And there should be a allowances for nominated drivers. Otherwise why have them?
SO NO thank you for the rude tone and extremely UNHELPFUL advice (don't know why you bothered). But thankfully there is a similar thread on the same issue, and some very helpful advice in it.
Perhaps if you stop being a tit, people will help more? There is absolutely no need for such a harsh post. Shame on you.
Yes, it wasn't giving you the answer you want - but if you don't like the post just ignore it.0 -
Drivers must live with in 5 miles of the person the car is intended for.
http://www.motability.co.uk/cars-and-wavs/customer-area/your-agreement-named-car-drivers
We’ll ask you to make sure:- The car is used by, or for the benefit of, the disabled person. This does not mean that the disabled person needs to be in the car for every journey. In practice, this means other named drivers in the household can use the car for shopping and other routine activities, as long as the disabled customer will benefit
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OP, how far from your Dad does your Mum live? Do you have to tell Motorbility where the car is parked over night?Be Alert..........Britain needs lerts.0
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