Motability car, named drivers and parking - please help?!

sarahg1969

fivetide wrote: »

The only things I can think of are:

1. Get shot of the car as outlined above. He'll get his DLA money back and could use this for taxis when he's well enough and/community transport if you have one in your area.

2. Keep the car and apply for a blue badge. It's not quite straight but if your mum is only using the car and the badge for the benefit of your dad that should be ok.

3. Borrow a driveway? anyone nearby have one you can borrow? Anywhere else she can park the car? I wouldn't worry as much about the car being stolen. Modern cars are usually stolen with the keys so it is more likely someone will break into the house after them. If nothing is on view the car is unliekly to be broken into so I would not worry about leaving it with your dad. Plus it is insured fully comp so no worries there.
4. If she does live close your dad transfers the DLA to her. I'm not sure exactly how that might work but parents of children who qualify for DLA can have a car using that money and of course the car is registered to the parent, not the child. No idea if that is possible in this situation.

Above all, must be worth a call to motability to discuss the options, we're all just guessing really.

Another alternative is to use the DLA payment (and any money spent on bus fares, etc before the motability car came along) to buy a car, and then your mother can do what she likes with it, including registering it in her name and address.

sunnyone

fivetide wrote: »

The only things I can think of are:

1. Get shot of the car as outlined above. He'll get his DLA money back and could use this for taxis when he's well enough and/community transport if you have one in your area.

2. Keep the car and apply for a blue badge. It's not quite straight but if your mum is only using the car and the badge for the benefit of your dad that should be ok.

3. Borrow a driveway? anyone nearby have one you can borrow? Anywhere else she can park the car? I wouldn't worry as much about the car being stolen. Modern cars are usually stolen with the keys so it is more likely someone will break into the house after them. If nothing is on view the car is unliekly to be broken into so I would not worry about leaving it with your dad. Plus it is insured fully comp so no worries there.
4. If she does live close your dad transfers the DLA to her. I'm not sure exactly how that might work but parents of children who qualify for DLA can have a car using that money and of course the car is registered to the parent, not the child. No idea if that is possible in this situation.

Above all, must be worth a call to motability to discuss the options, we're all just guessing really.

The bit in red bold is misuse of a blue badge, the mum could use the BB (which is awarded automatically to the dad btw because he gets HRMC DLA) to collect the dad or drop him off but not when visiting him, doing errands etc.

The bit in blue bold is not relevant in this case and even in the case of child DLA HRMC awardees the parents do not have the right to abuse the privelige of having a motability car/BB though most the parent's I know do abuse the scheme by believing the motability car is their car in the same way as if they had bought a family car.