Motability cars - should they be UK made?

As far as you are aware is incorrect. Motability cars awarded for children are ordinarily deemed as the family car and normal family car usage can apply.

Mobility cars are for the use of the disabled person and not the use of family members as far as I'm aware.
For example if a named driver needs to fetch a prescription for a disabled child that's fine to use the mobility car. If they need to fetch a prescription for themselves then the mobility car shouldn't be used. Maybe its different for a child but I know an adult with a mobility car and their named driver isn't allowed to use the car for their personal use, commuting to work, socialising etc - they have a second car for that

You didn't answer the question about how this surveillance would work? Where would the money come from to pay for it? Somehow, I doubt it would save much if any money at all.

Do you think mental health professionals are thick then?
Nobody is going to be getting PIP for mild anxiety
And clearly you don't know how it works because you seem to think mobility cars can't be used as the family car.

Some bloke down the pub told them.

Funnily enough, if the same bloke told them the seats had just been painted, they'd have to touch them to check.

Remember 50% of the population are below average intelligence. And we know how to find them.

Mental health and the likes of fibromyalgia are easily exaggerated and often unprovable.

Not so easily exaggerated you could do it though. And I hope you only ever treat your own health problems. I'd hate to think of you being treated by a doctor who could be conned by so many people obviously faking it.

I suppose you could get medical treatment outside the UK though.

Or are you quite happy to say in one face that you would see a doctor about your own health and out of the other face at the same time say doctors are so stupid they can be fooled by frauds ?

I bet you never answer.

I wonder if the people who believe it’s easy to claim PIP have made successful claims themselves?

Nobody who knows the PIP process can claim anything about it is easy!

I'm well aware of how it works.
I'm also aware of people who claim and shouldn't.
Mental health and the likes of fibromyalgia are easily exaggerated and often unprovable. It's an easy option to extra money.

The OP is bowing out because this thread failed to go the right way.

Still, they can take heart that someone else (it could be them if they namechange) will be along in a few days to start a similar (but not exact) thread to this to try and steer it it a conclusion where the majority are ready to go out dragging the disabled into the chambers themselves.

How many people will claim they can't understand this poster because it's in German ?

So to someone who is a paraplegic driver who needs to lift themselves from chair to car seat etc.. the ideal car is one that has

• a driver's door that opens wide enough that a wheelchair can get close enough to the seat so that the driver can transfer.
• sills that aren't huge so that the gap between where the chair stands to the seat is not a giant crevasse (most are)
• seat that can be the right level for transferring. It's no good if you need crampons to get back up to your chair.
• a boot that is large enough to hold a wheelchair

You'd be amazed how few cars will fit this criteria and how futile sourcing a suitable car can feel.

The roof lift is not covered by motability. A chair lift is several thousand pounds and the installation will be an additional thousand.
Motability will not cover the total cost of a car that is suitable for needs of someone with such a disability and additional deposits will be required.

If the person has to hand the car back after 3 years, they will have to fund the cost of transferring the lift to a new vehicle.

Yes. And that's covered in the application and in the assessment. The point i was making is that the evidence to back it all up is in the medical supervision. So there is no need for surveillance on top, which is what the post i was redponding to suggested.

She also has learning disabilities. Those are evidenced in her school reports, her qualifications, her learning disability assessment. She has autism and adhd. That's evidenced by the diagnostic letters from CAMS.

People seem to think you can say what you like on the forms and the gov gives you a car.

What does that even mean? Why would someone lease a car that they didn't need? Spend £300 a month on it?! What?

So you think people should have a Motability car for the disabled family member PLUS another vehicle? Does that not seem ridiculous and wasteful to you?

Just think a bit longer and harder about things, will you?

Erm you are allowed to treat the car as the family vehicle in fact motability expect you too ,when my sons previous car was off the road for repairs motability arranged for a taxi account so my dh,could get to and from work obviously he doesn't take our son to work with him ,maybe educate yourself about how people can treat the mobility car, s before writing ignorant posts ?

What is so difficult for posters like you to understand, the fact that if a person is not eligible to claim, they can try until the cows come home, and they will not be given an award. The rest of your post just highlights your ignorance about the Motability scheme.

in vast majority of cases where the award is for a child they are deemed to be the family vehicle though, so perhaps you need to check this with motability before suggesting people are doing something wrong.

But it's not the government's job to keep you in yours.
If changes to the scheme mean you lose your job it's down to the company you work for

It's not her having epilepsy that matters its how it affects her life.
If it has a severe affect then ofcourse she should get help.
Too many people claiming who don't actually need too is the problem and people treating mobility cars like the family vehicle

DS qualifies for a motability car but we’ve chosen not to have one. I lease my car myself and it costs me £200 per month. I could lease that exact same car through motability, in DS’s name and for his use, but it would cost £300 per month of his PIP. I’m really not sure how that’s a free car or a perk.

You not claiming PIP doesn't make you a martyr, and being ND doesn't necessarily mean you would qualify for PIP ,you would have to meet the criteria.

Why start a thread about something you know nothing about🤔
We have a mobility car for my son he has severe autism and learning disabilities, he's 15 ,but cognitively around 2 or 3 ,he can speak at all ,in a special school for children with severe to profound learning disabilities and working at pre school levels ,cannot be left alone at all has extremely challenging behaviour, etc etc ,would you like to exchange lives and benefit from our " perk" ?
No I didn't think so.

Exactly this my son qualified under SMI he has extremely complex disabilities and will never be independent, I'm sick of some posters thinking it's easy to qualify it really isn't.

You cannot get a motability car via DLA for learning difficulties alone. The child must either fit the virtually unable to walk criteria or the severe mental impairment criteria. The SMI criteria includes having to be severe enough to get high rate care, never being able to be left alone safely and have challenging behaviour that requires regular physical restraint.

"I’ll leave this thread now. As stated I am ND and not fabulous with words."

Being ND doesn't stop someone being a twat.

Maybe someone could arrange for you to have the perk of havinf epilepsy and learning difficulties.