PIP 50% car tax reduction again!

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It is time for OH to tax his car again and I just wondered if there has been any change in the way the 50% can be claimed. For the past two years, due to so many DVLA staff working from home, we have paid the car tax in full and then applied for a 50% refund, which has taken quite a while to process.
Has anyone applied recently and has it changed at all? You would think by now they could have come up with a better way to deal with this.
Has anyone applied recently and has it changed at all? You would think by now they could have come up with a better way to deal with this.
Stopped smoking 27/12/2007, but could start again at any time :eek:
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Their answer was that the category did not officially exist on the computer system.
"If you’re claiming for a vehicle for the first time, you have to claim at a Post Office. You must do this every time you change your vehicle ... a cheque or payable order (made out to ‘DVLA, Swansea’) for 50% of the full rate of car tax for the vehicle"
https://www.gov.uk/financial-help-disabled/vehicles-and-transport
You have to send your documents to DVLA every year to get the half price car tax.
You use The PO the first time you claim free car tax
it is so easy for the DVLA to check through their own database if the vehicle is still registered in your name, has a current MOT, etc so I just don’t understand why they insist on you posting all of the documents every year. Surely they could also log how long your PIP award is for so you wouldn’t have to send that every year.
"How to claim: