Misuse of Motability vehicles.

[fifitot]

Just sounding as just this week 2 of my friends got brand new cars under this scheme. If you don't know, someone getting a high rate of disability allowance can get this paid direct to a car dealer and get a brand new car which includes free insurance and servicing costs. No problem with that at all. Even if the person cannot drive themselves they can have a named driver but the issue is that the car must be primarily for the use of the disabled person, even if it is as a passenger, or for doing errands for them etc. It s a good scheme that assists disabled people.

It is not for relatives to scam the system and get a brand new car which is parked miles away in another town, never to be used by the disabled person themselves or in connection with that person. 2 people I know have recently got cars by conspiring with their parents/brother. These cars are parked outside their own homes, they never use them in connection with their relatives and are quite open about how they have 'played the system'. It really bloody annoys me.

And don't even get me started on the misuse of the blue badges!

You are talking bollocks OP. My nephew has CP and leases an adapted car, which carries him in his chair. When you sign the lease paper work you have to confirm that the car stays at the address, and none of the named drivers can live over a certain mileage away. I know this because when we go and visit my sister and her kids in Cheshire DH can only go on the insurance for 24hrs at a time if he wants to take DN and the other kids out, because we live down south. We also had major problems because DH is German and has an EU license. You do also know that you have to put money down for these supposedly free cars, don't you?

YABU and I suggest you go and spread your disablist shite elsewhere.

YABU for Not reporting

only this week our regional tv station ran a piece on shoppers abusing the blue badge scheme,disabled person was not with them,claimant had died 18 months ago son was still using

im sick to the gill's of this happening,i wish there were tougher enforcement

this does the genuine disabled no favours

I completely agree that the abuse of motabilty cars needs to stop but it's very hard to distinguish between the genuine motability car drivers and the abusers. I was in a position where I had to give up my job to look after my mum so my humble £12000 a year salary reduced to £61 a week carers allowance . Shortly after I left my job my tired old car decided to die and I had no way of affording the repairs or to buy another. My mother suggested us getting a car through motability and like most of you I was unsure of the rule so I contacted motabilty to explainy position. They asked me how far I lived from my mother which is just over 4 miles. I also explained that I go to my mums early every morning to help her get washed and dressed etc and then go and do my shopping and mums etc. I return to mums to prepare lunch etc then I go home or to friends etc until the evening when I return to my mums to get her evening meal and get her ready for bed. I then return home or sometimes out to friends to socialise etc. my sister who works in the week covers mums weekend care but I keep the car for my own use at the weekend. I advised motability of all this and they told me it is fine for us to have a car for these purposes as I would not be able to afford my own car and therefore would be unable to care for my mother effectively. The abuse comes in when people have the car but do not use it for the benefit of the disabled person when they need it. As motabilty advised me my mother pays over £200 a month for the car and if it helps her and her family/carer that is what rhe scheme was invented for. Carers also suffer as well as the disabled relative. Just to put it from the viewpoint of a genuine carer.

www.motability.co.uk/understanding-the-scheme/use-of-your-car/