Motability Cars

[Deleted member 325510]

They should all have 'D' plates on them so that people are aware that they are disabled and make allowances for them, like they do with 'L' plates and 'P' plates. Mind you, that would spoil the looks of their Q8’s, wouldn’t it?

Back to the bad old days when impatient drivers would shout something nasty out of the window as they pass?

 

[Deleted member 325510]

Disabled people having a mobility car isn't the problem.

Its the fraudulent ones received, 1 in 5 new cars are part of the mobility scheme....seems a lot...maybe.

Seems about right, especially with the increasing age of the population, and the reduction in discrimination towards those disabled.
Except some are trying hard to increase the discrimination.

An estimated 16.1 million people in the UK are disabled, making up 24% of the population. The prevalence of disability increases with age, with 45% of state pension-age adults being disabled, compared to 23% of working-age adults and 11% of children.

 

[Deleted member 325510]

They should scrap the complaints form then, good plan

Then none of them would be investigated. So the 10% would continue to be fraudulent.

 

[Mottie]

The motability scheme should be means tested, the same as care home fees. My mother in law, who has dementia and cannot live unsupported, has to pay £75k a year to stay in a care home while those in the rooms either side of her pay…..nothing at all! It’s not even tax deductible. Disabled people that can afford to upgrade to a plusher model of car should have their benefit examined. For every pound they pay for the upgrade, a pound should be deducted from their benefit.

 

[Deleted member 325510]

so for instance - a daughter use's her mothers benefits to buy a flashy car, is the only driver and keeps the car at her own address, takes her mother to the shops once a week, and you as a taxpayer would not mind this scenario ?

Of course individual cases like this would not bankrupt an entire country, but can a country on the verge of bankruptcy afford to be so generous ?

The car can be kept at another secure location, within 5 miles of the address of the disabled person.
But it will probably be fitted with a tracker.

 

[Deleted member 325510]

And that does indeed happen, the same as those blue badges. I know someone who uses his fathers blue badge and his car all of the time.

Have you reported him for committing a crime?

 

[Deleted member 325510]

possibly, or at least limit it to those who can't afford their own cars. So if someone can afford to add 10 or 20k for an upgrade - then they should use that money to buy a sensibly priced car.

That will automatically increase compensation payouts, but only for those eligible. That will in turn put up everyones insurance bills.

 

[johnny2007]

well it bloody well should be - we're not a rich country, we've given up our oil and gas
if someone has money they should fend for themselves


certainly looks that way, i take it that its last character embarrassed itself, or is ignored so much, it has tried for a secret re-invent, thinking it would not be noticed - LOL

I will stick the silly arse on ignore

Secret re-invent?!?!
Anyone can spot the racist bigot from miles away.
What's strange (or new, should I say) is that last round he joined with Knave and Mortquana at the same time to support his own nonsense.
Then let Knave die and left Mortquana.
I thought that was the end of the experiment, but I was wrong.
And here we are now...
Let's see what other animal he pulls out of his nonsense hat.

 

[Munroast]

Secret re-invent?!?!
Anyone can spot the racist bigot from miles away.
What's strange (or new, should I say) is that last round he joined with Knave and Mortquana at the same time to support his own nonsense.
Then let Knave die and left Mortquana.
I thought that was the end of the experiment, but I was wrong.
And here we are now...
Let's see what other animal he pulls out of his nonsense hat.

I bung them on ignore, and if everyone did they would go away

I have no problem with different viewpoints and opinions, it help me reflect on my own - but these odd bods are just tedious outright trolls

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

And that does indeed happen, the same as those blue badges. I know someone who uses his fathers blue badge and his car all of the time.

I've had access to a BB, for many decades - first my partner, a few years gap, and now for me. They are not easy to get, you have to list your issues, have them verified by a doctor, and have an interview at a centre to prove need. In all of that time, and use, only once was the valid user ever checked...

I had taken my partner to Selby shopping, parked out the way, on the road side near the centre, where I had often parked before. On the way back to the car, she had nipped in a shop, just round the corner from the car, I had continued and got in the car, all seen by a parking attendant. Over he came, and asked to take a close look at the BB, which had my partner's name on it, obviously not me. He asked why I was using it, I said for her, and she was just a few minutes behind me. He waited, until she turned up, was satisfied, and I said 'well done, more checks should be done on misuse of the BB's'.

No doubt some people do get a BB, by swinging the lead, but I think the main problem is misuse of the BB, by friends and relatives. Nobody, but nobody, is bothering to check the user of the BB is valid. My one check in 40 years, seems to confirm this lack of checks on use.

Supermarket BB parking misuse seems to be much worse - everyone seems to think it's fine to park in the disabled spaces, and nowt much anyone can do about that.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

so for instance - a daughter use's her mothers benefits to buy a flashy car, is the only driver and keeps the car at her own address, takes her mother to the shops once a week, and you as a taxpayer would not mind this scenario ?

I wouldn't mind, if the by far the major use of the car, were for the mother's benefit. If, however, the daughter is making full use of the car, commuting in it, then that is very, very wrong.

My partner's disability, for many years, paid my road tax for my personal car - my property, I insured it, maintained it etc.. For all of those years, I also had a company car, plus a motorbike. I only ever used my personal car, taxed as disabled, with my partner in the passenger seat, or for her needs - that is how it should be.

 

[morqthana]

We are allowed to hold up any traffic on roads for 15 mins whilst we conduct our work without traffic management. We can also park on paths and access roads for the same period or we wouldn't be able to carry out our works. We get more complaints and confrontation from disabled people than any other person. Very entitlled and special people.

Maybe if they can't simply get round your machine they don't like having to sit there for 15 minutes waiting.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Seems about right, especially with the increasing age of the population, and the reduction in discrimination towards those disabled.
Except some are trying hard to increase the discrimination.

I am not so easily convinced, about the age factor... Remember, unless you are already in receipt of PIP, at retirement, you cannot then get the PIP. The PIP, also, opens the door to lots of other discounts.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Let's just assume (pretend) that nobody is conning us all, the system is fair and every claim is deserved.

We still can't afford it so what now?

 

[pete01]

Ive applied for a Motability motorbike