Seagull Steve
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I find that both offensive, and downright f***ing childish, go try and frighten somebody else keyboard warrior.
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Disabled car mobility scheme.
- Thread starter Leekbrookgull
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I find that both offensive, and downright f***ing childish, go try and frighten somebody else keyboard warrior.
Seagull on the wing
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The choice is yours with mobility allowance...you can have the money,think it's about £205 a month now or a new car every 3 years,which includes tax, comphrensive insurance,free breakdown,free servicing,4 tyres over the 3 year hire,free windscreen and window repair.
The hire agreement does state not to be used for racing and business use.
The hire agreement does state not to be used for racing and business use.
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
When you say "all over the north" is it being used to travel to a single place of work, or is it being used between places of work ?
Seagull on the wing
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Don't rise to it Steve....forgive them them as they know what they do!....something like that ......
Seagull Steve
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Yeah I guess you're right Seagull on the wing. Its just people were asking sensible questions, and you get arseholes like that come on and post shit.
Leekbrookgull
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However the claimant,cant drive but his father does and uses the car for work.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
A 3 year-old child can receive the higher rate of the mobility component of DLA and qualify for a Motability car - as the government's website makes clear:-
The Motability Scheme: options for buying or hiring a car : Directgov - Disabled people
How the scheme works
The Motability Scheme can help you with leasing a car if you're getting either the:
•War Pensioners' Mobility Supplement
•higher rate of the mobility component of Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
Even if you do not drive yourself, you can apply for a car as a passenger and propose two other people as your drivers.
You can also apply for a car on behalf of a child aged three or over. The child must be entitled to the higher rate mobility component of Disability Living Allowance.
That is morally wrong,....imo.
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Seagull Steve
SWC
It isn't if the disabled person gains from his father working and he provides food and a roof over his/her head. Also how do we know he doesn't pick up medication/other things for the disabled person?
Lord Bracknell
On fire
How many extra civil servants would you be prepared to pay for to ensure that 560,000 cars were only driven in accordance with your idea of what is morally right?
And how would they check up? Would you have them park outside people's homes with a fancy camera? Or would you electronically tag the people who care for disabled claimants?
severnside gull
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That is morally wrong,....imo.My wife has a motability car but she is no longer able to drive herself so I am the named driver on the insurance. She is often bedridden.
Is it wrong that I should be able to do the shopping without her present, or that I should use the car to go to the doctor's or the gym to maintain my physical wellbeing so that I can act as her carer (and save the government a small fortune in so doing)? When I do the occasional day's "work" in an honorary role which helps me to retain a sense of self-respect and mental well being having retired early to care for her, is it wrong that I should use the car? In each of these instances she is demonstrably a beneficiary. At a cost to us of £200 a month I think the motability scheme represents good value but it is by no means a "freebie" and as we lease the car with our own money it doesn't seem unreasonable that we decide how we should use it. We could (indeed we used to) run an old banger for less and spend what we save on other needs. The scheme isn't subsidised by the taxpayer. Lease terms are negotiated on the strength of combined spending power. Many manufacturer's offer similar terms to private leasees.
On the other issue, I only use her Blue Badge when she is in the car or if I'm dropping her at the hairdressers or whatever - the rules on that are quite different and rightly so although it is often the case that warden's will book you even when displaying a badge. It isn't a licence to park just anywhere by any means but it is widely abused. I strongly recommend everyone to do what I do and report people who are clearly flouting it to the local authority who are responsible for managing the issue of blue badges.
BTW - as the car is hers she gets to choose and accessorise it with the result that we have a car that looks like a bumble bee on heat (bright yellow with a black roof and matching internal "touches") and has plastic eyelashes with diamante trim around the headlamps - personally I think I deserve a frigging medal for just getting behind the wheel
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My mrs can't drive, her car has my private plate on and in her eyes is my "company car" seeing as we could no longer afford to run my car after I left £30k job to be her full time carer and my "wages" are a stonking £32.50 a week. I neither see your point or your problem tbh - is it that he's turned up to work recently and you've got a touch of the green eyed monster maybe?
tezz79
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So a carer should not be able to use the car if the disabled person is not in it ?
What if the reason I have not been able to get food shopping ect is because I have not been able to leave my sick sons side for a week.... Is that allowed or do I have to get a carer to work overtime while I get on a bus ?
Oh but wait. I don't have time to get the bus into town & back as my other children finish school in an hour.
It's little things like this that somebody who is not a full time carer would not think of (understandably fair enough) but should i have to buy another car seeing as I'm already renting this one ?
That is one simple example but I'm telling you.... There are a thousand & one other reasons that a person might need to use the car without the disabled person being it that actually does help the disabled person aswell as their family who for many reasons may be struggling & would otherwise be housebound or unable to do the things that most people take for granted
What if the reason I have not been able to get food shopping ect is because I have not been able to leave my sick sons side for a week.... Is that allowed or do I have to get a carer to work overtime while I get on a bus ?
Oh but wait. I don't have time to get the bus into town & back as my other children finish school in an hour.
It's little things like this that somebody who is not a full time carer would not think of (understandably fair enough) but should i have to buy another car seeing as I'm already renting this one ?
That is one simple example but I'm telling you.... There are a thousand & one other reasons that a person might need to use the car without the disabled person being it that actually does help the disabled person aswell as their family who for many reasons may be struggling & would otherwise be housebound or unable to do the things that most people take for granted
tezz79
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- Apr 20, 2011
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That is morally wrong,....imo.My wife has a motability car but she is no longer able to drive herself so I am the named driver on the insurance. She is often bedridden.
Is it wrong that I should be able to do the shopping without her present, or that I should use the car to go to the doctor's or the gym to maintain my physical wellbeing so that I can act as her carer (and save the government a small fortune in so doing)? When I do the occasional day's "work" in an honorary role which helps me to retain a sense of self-respect and mental well being having retired early to care for her, is it wrong that I should use the car? In each of these instances she is demonstrably a beneficiary. At a cost to us of £200 a month I think the motability scheme represents good value but it is by no means a "freebie" and as we lease the car with our own money it doesn't seem unreasonable that we decide how we should use it. We could (indeed we used to) run an old banger for less and spend what we save on other needs. The scheme isn't subsidised by the taxpayer. Lease terms are negotiated on the strength of combined spending power. Many manufacturer's offer similar terms to private leasees.
On the other issue, I only use her Blue Badge when she is in the car or if I'm dropping her at the hairdressers or whatever - the rules on that are quite different and rightly so although it is often the case that warden's will book you even when displaying a badge. It isn't a licence to park just anywhere by any means but it is widely abused. I strongly recommend everyone to do what I do and report people who are clearly flouting it to the local authority who are responsible for managing the issue of blue badges.
BTW - as the car is hers she gets to choose and accessorise it with the result that we have a car that looks like a bumble bee on heat (bright yellow with a black roof and matching internal "touches") and has plastic eyelashes with diamante trim around the headlamps - personally I think I deserve a frigging medal for just getting behind the wheel
Exactly !!!
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
When you say "all over the north" is it being used to travel to a single place of work, or is it being used between places of work ?
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
What was the relevance of you stating "her car has my private plate" ?
Oooh look my stalker has joined in, now be a good boy and try not to make yourself look like too much of a cock this time eh
The relevance is that despite the car being in my mrs' name in her eyes it's my car - so much so that it's got my plate on it.
Top post mate, so many people have no idea what it's like being a carer for a family member
About Motability Operations
Motability Operations is a not-for-profit company that runs the Motability Car Scheme, and more recently, the Powered Wheelchair and Scooter Scheme. The largest fleet operator in the UK and the biggest supplier of used cars to the trade, we are owned by the major banks: Barclays Bank plc, Lloyds Group plc, HSBC Bank plc and Royal Bank of Scotland plc.
As operators of the Motability schemes, our activities are regulated and overseen by the charity Motability. Our annual turnover is over £2.5 billion and our assets worth £4.2 billion. All surpluses are reinvested in the business for the benefit of our customers.
The number of cars we purchase each year accounts for no less than six per cent of all the new cars sold in the UK. Since our beginnings in 1978, we've supplied customers with over two million cars.
As you can see it has nothing to do with the government. It is a company led scheme overseen by a charity.
The customer, note customer has to pay for the car just as in any lease.
Basically Motorbility has such buying power that it buys the cars from the supplier at cost or even below cost price. The manufacturer benefits in a turnover of its cars and the ability to offer surplus cars to the scheme added to the supply of parts. Garages benefit by having contracts to service the cars and the second hand market benefits by having a ready made supply of well maintained cars.
So the scheme benefits the disabled and families, the car manufacturing industry, garages, employs loads of people at no cost to anyone bar the DLA recipient.
Motability Operations is a not-for-profit company that runs the Motability Car Scheme, and more recently, the Powered Wheelchair and Scooter Scheme. The largest fleet operator in the UK and the biggest supplier of used cars to the trade, we are owned by the major banks: Barclays Bank plc, Lloyds Group plc, HSBC Bank plc and Royal Bank of Scotland plc.
As operators of the Motability schemes, our activities are regulated and overseen by the charity Motability. Our annual turnover is over £2.5 billion and our assets worth £4.2 billion. All surpluses are reinvested in the business for the benefit of our customers.
The number of cars we purchase each year accounts for no less than six per cent of all the new cars sold in the UK. Since our beginnings in 1978, we've supplied customers with over two million cars.
As you can see it has nothing to do with the government. It is a company led scheme overseen by a charity.
The customer, note customer has to pay for the car just as in any lease.
Basically Motorbility has such buying power that it buys the cars from the supplier at cost or even below cost price. The manufacturer benefits in a turnover of its cars and the ability to offer surplus cars to the scheme added to the supply of parts. Garages benefit by having contracts to service the cars and the second hand market benefits by having a ready made supply of well maintained cars.
So the scheme benefits the disabled and families, the car manufacturing industry, garages, employs loads of people at no cost to anyone bar the DLA recipient.
That's a shame. I like the idea of a Motorbility grand prix.