In case you hadn't noticed it is a benefit and it is paid out/for with their benefits?
How disabled do you have to be then?
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In case you hadn't noticed it is a benefit and it is paid out/for with their benefits?
Hmm, she didn't appeal?
It's as if she was more interested in kicking up a fuss than actually being concerned about keeping the car... Fancy that.
Apparently she did, and was turned down...
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In case you hadn't noticed it is a benefit and it is paid out/for with their benefits?
If they can afford to get a car payed for out of their "benefits" then they are getting too much "benefits" to start with.
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Some people need them, it's not just a car, it's a better life otherwise they would be housebound.
I detect much troll in you.
I know lots of people who don't have cars, none of them are house bound?
Can they walk more than 10 metres? Do they have a serious life limiting medical condition?
I honestly think some people will never understand the difficulties disabled people face until they become disabled themselves. Total lack of empathy.
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I know lots of people who don't have cars, none of them are house bound?
I did say some people, in context the disabled who deserve the cars.
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This - a friend of mine requires one of these and I think it's reasonably inexpensive. She has the modification done when she buys a car. It also flips over so others can drive the car.
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The UK is a joke with regards to governance.
I know a man who contracted a lung problem due to working with petrol motors, he is suffering genuine problems, but works full time and also coaches football, yet he drives a new car, has a new one quite regularily and usually very decent VW Golfs and such, over the years I have seen him with a Subaru Impreza, Golf GTi, Audi A3 sportback, currently has a nice Astra, they are given free for mobility reasons. No cheap tat there, proper new models with all the trimmings. Married, with kids, and a working wife with her own car, bought house! No idea how that works to be honest!
I also know unemployed parents who have been offered mobility cars due to children having slight health issues but unable to take them due to having no driving licence. Not sure why we can't pay for them having driving lessons or if they get GTi's too?
Yet one of my lads has had health problems and regularily needed picking up from school and his mum to be available on short notice, she could not work because of young kids and our son, but because I was working, and even though not earning much or owning a car, we had no entitlements.
Yet we see amputee's managing quite well in dancing, running, and general life with prosphetics? On a serious note, no one is forcing her to do anything, and it looks like she is more mobile than many people I know. Plenty of people dying of cancer and on benefits have to make their own way to treatment on buses.
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Its amazing though the amount of people posting who obviously have no frigging clue about either, disability and the effects it can have on you or how the Motability scheme actually works.
Try reading some of the info available here http://www.motability.co.uk/ then try posting again.
Depending on which Mobility Supplement, (please take note of the word supplement and not benefit), a person receives will dictate along with the type of vehicle they choose, how much they need to pay towards a vehicle from the Motability Scheme, there are plenty of vehicles that require no advance payment and do not take up the whole amount of the supplement they receive. This all depends on the type of disability and how it effects the individual as to what type of vehicle they need.
Any adaptations needed are usually paid for by the Motability Scheme.
Other vehicles may require anything upto a £3k Advance Payment and will result in the complete supplement being used to pay for the vehicle this could possibly be £250ish a month I believe for those on DLA/PiP. Please yell out though if that is incorrect anyone.
Some wheelchair accessible vehicles require a £5k+ Advance Payment but these vehicles are usually kept for 5 years not 3 same as with certain adaptations on standard vehicles they may require a longer term.
Those that receive the Mobility Supplement through the Veterans Agency, (Ex-Service Personnel), get a higher rate of supplement and as such they get better deals on Motability Scheme vehicles which roughly works out to be the Advance Payment generally being about £1k less than those on PiP etc and they tend to be able to get higher spec vehicles as they will be paying more a month.
Some here are talking about buying vehicles from Motability at the end of the 3 years or if they loose there Mobility Supplement word of warning - I spoke to Motability about this very subject 2 days ago and was told in no uncertain terms that this is not an option at all.
The best they will do is if you retain your Supplement then as long as the vehicle has a low enough mileage they may do an extension of your term from 3 to 5 years.
If you loose entitlement then they will take the vehicle back to recoup some of the money on it.
For info ATOS do not make recommendations/decisions regarding suitability for a benefit all they do is assess and submit a report to the DWP that report is then examined by a Decision Maker who is, funnily enough, the one who makes the decision.
As for me well I became eligible for a Motability Vehicle through the Veterans Agency in 2005 when I was discharged from the RAF on medical grounds after 18years of service.
According to specialists I should be in a wheelchair now but the injury I sustained to my lower spine that required 2 discs being removed, prevents me from sitting for long periods of time.
Until the end of this year I could not afford to join the Motability Scheme I really couldn't afford either the Advance Payment or the loss of £270 a month so now I hardly get anywhere as I have been stuck with a 20+ year old Pajero that seems to go wrong more times than not when I do drive it
and is actually uncomfortable for me to get into as I have trouble lifting my left leg up to climb into it.
Now that my financial situation has changed I will be looking to order my first Motability Vehicle in the new year and after a great test drive it will be Ford Kuga as I can step across into it with no climbing up and no having to try and bend my self double to get down into a standard type car.
Sorry for the rant/ramble but this is a subject that really bugs me when people dont have a clue and go about yelling about "Free Cars". And I have spent a lot of time lately researching the Scheme much to my wife's annoyance
Try reading some of the info available here http://www.motability.co.uk/ then try posting again.
Depending on which Mobility Supplement, (please take note of the word supplement and not benefit), a person receives will dictate along with the type of vehicle they choose, how much they need to pay towards a vehicle from the Motability Scheme, there are plenty of vehicles that require no advance payment and do not take up the whole amount of the supplement they receive. This all depends on the type of disability and how it effects the individual as to what type of vehicle they need.
Any adaptations needed are usually paid for by the Motability Scheme.
Other vehicles may require anything upto a £3k Advance Payment and will result in the complete supplement being used to pay for the vehicle this could possibly be £250ish a month I believe for those on DLA/PiP. Please yell out though if that is incorrect anyone.
Some wheelchair accessible vehicles require a £5k+ Advance Payment but these vehicles are usually kept for 5 years not 3 same as with certain adaptations on standard vehicles they may require a longer term.
Those that receive the Mobility Supplement through the Veterans Agency, (Ex-Service Personnel), get a higher rate of supplement and as such they get better deals on Motability Scheme vehicles which roughly works out to be the Advance Payment generally being about £1k less than those on PiP etc and they tend to be able to get higher spec vehicles as they will be paying more a month.
Some here are talking about buying vehicles from Motability at the end of the 3 years or if they loose there Mobility Supplement word of warning - I spoke to Motability about this very subject 2 days ago and was told in no uncertain terms that this is not an option at all.
The best they will do is if you retain your Supplement then as long as the vehicle has a low enough mileage they may do an extension of your term from 3 to 5 years.
If you loose entitlement then they will take the vehicle back to recoup some of the money on it.
For info ATOS do not make recommendations/decisions regarding suitability for a benefit all they do is assess and submit a report to the DWP that report is then examined by a Decision Maker who is, funnily enough, the one who makes the decision.
As for me well I became eligible for a Motability Vehicle through the Veterans Agency in 2005 when I was discharged from the RAF on medical grounds after 18years of service.
According to specialists I should be in a wheelchair now but the injury I sustained to my lower spine that required 2 discs being removed, prevents me from sitting for long periods of time.
Until the end of this year I could not afford to join the Motability Scheme I really couldn't afford either the Advance Payment or the loss of £270 a month so now I hardly get anywhere as I have been stuck with a 20+ year old Pajero that seems to go wrong more times than not when I do drive it
and is actually uncomfortable for me to get into as I have trouble lifting my left leg up to climb into it.Now that my financial situation has changed I will be looking to order my first Motability Vehicle in the new year and after a great test drive it will be Ford Kuga as I can step across into it with no climbing up and no having to try and bend my self double to get down into a standard type car.
Sorry for the rant/ramble but this is a subject that really bugs me when people dont have a clue and go about yelling about "Free Cars". And I have spent a lot of time lately researching the Scheme much to my wife's annoyance
The hoops my mum had to go through to maintain her benefits were unreal. I've mentioned them on here before but making someone who suffers severe depression (amongst other physical and mental issues) go through them amounts to nothing more than cruelty.
Or extremely cheap good publicity for a company in dire need of some. Just hope its not a diesel
.Bang on - was looking years ago when I thought my son might get higher, he didn't we got medium so no car scheme, very few would have been suitable in the 'free' range and what I was looking at, Mondeo 2.0tdci lx was about a grand upfront plus extra weekly on top of losing the mobility payment.
I have 2 ppl in my house who had mobility payments, neither get the higher and one of them is in a wheelchair with some funky metal on his spine
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