Motability Cars

[Ivor Windybottom]

Ive applied for a Motability motorbike

You're joking but I'm going to guess it may be possible and some probably have.

 

[pete01]

You're joking but I'm going to guess it may be possible and some probably have.

It wouldn't surprise me

 

[morqthana]

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

0.4%

 

[pete01]

It wouldn't surprise me

Me neither

 

[Highway Man]

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

Why are they any different to anyone else

 

[morqthana]

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.

So because the system has failed your M-I-L you seek to redress the unfairness by making it fail other people.

OK.

Would you also like to take pensions, NHS treatment, and bin collections away from people who can afford to do without them?

 

[morqthana]

if someone has money they should fend for themselves

I keep asking you this, but you seem unwilling to answer. (I wonder why... )

If someone "has money" would you also take away their pension, their right to NHS treatment, and bin collections, and make them fend for themselves?

 

[Highway Man]

Ive applied for a Motability motorbike

Have you heard anything? I would like one as well.

 

[Highway Man]

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.

Exactly this!!!!

 

[morqthana]

In a supermarket, or other similar private car park, there is no check, nor penalty, for parking in a disabled bay, without a BB.

You absolutely can be issued with a parking charge notice for that. If the sign(s) have it in the terms & conditions of the contract you are deemed to have entered into by using the car park you can get parking charge for breaching that term just as much as if you overstay, or don't buy a ticket, etc.

Try this:

There may indeed be few, if any, checks in practice, as they require people on patrol, whereas entering/leaving the car park is easily monitored with ANPR cameras. Although with supermarkets I don't see why the people collecting up trolleys can't take photos of disabled bay offenders and send them to the parking management company. Maybe a disabled rights campaign group should try to get a supermarket (or a parking management company) prosecuted for failing their duties under the Equality Act for not properly enforcing disabled bay restrictions. After all - these companies are quick enough to act when their revenue is at stake.

Only recently, did I manage to qualify for basic level Attendance Allowance, after quite a battle. I'm presently in another extensive battle, since August, trying to get a council tax discount.

So a double whammy re the cut-off for PIP. You had "quite a battle" to get basic level Attendance Allowance, but if you'd been eligible for PIP then you could easily have got a free car by telling a couple of fibs.

Apparently.

 

[Highway Man]

You absolutely can be issued with a parking charge notice for that. If the sign(s) have it in the terms & conditions of the contract you are deemed to have entered into by using the car park you can get parking charge for breaching that term just as much as if you overstay, or don't buy a ticket, etc.

Try this:

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There may indeed be few, if any, checks in practice, as they require people on patrol, whereas entering/leaving the car park is easily monitored with ANPR cameras. Although with supermarkets I don't see why the people collecting up trolleys can't take photos of disabled bay offenders and send them to the parking management company. Maybe a disabled rights campaign group should try to get a supermarket (or a parking management company) prosecuted for failing their duties under the Equality Act for not properly enforcing disabled bay restrictions. After all - these companies are quick enough to act when their revenue is at stake.





So a double whammy re the cut-off for PIP. You had "quite a battle" to get basic level Attendance Allowance, but if you'd been eligible for PIP then you could easily have got a free car by telling a couple of fibs.

Apparently.

Oh my. You really do get your knickers in a twist over everything don’t you. What a strange little fella you are.

 

[pete01]

Have you heard anything? I would like one as well.

Yeah the bloke was very helpful he said they dont offer motorbikes but I could have a unicycle

 

[Highway Man]

Yeah the bloke was very helpful he said they dont offer motorbikes but I could have a unicycle

With an engine on it?

 

[Highway Man]

Yeah the bloke was very helpful he said they dont offer motorbikes but I could have a unicycle

You shouldn’t have told him you only had one leg. That’s where you went wrong.

 

[pete01]

You shouldn’t have told him you only had one leg. That’s where you went wrong.

Oh