Hello can anyone help?

As i found when my mother was able to claim for things but didn't find out till age concern told her. Claiming anything from the government is a secret society, they don't let you know unless you ask.

Over the last few years well abou 12 I have suffered from osteoarthritis in both knees. Enough to say I have to sit and rest about every 10-15 mins and would be lost without my car. I obtained a blue badge last year but the questions are:
1) Would i get disability working allowance?
2) If I did would I qualify for motorbility and how?

Hope you can help.:help:

First of all sorry to hear about your knees.

To get a motability vehicle you need to be in receipt of the higher mobility component of The Disability Living Allowance. Then you sign over your allowance for leasing a vehicle (sometimes referred to as hiring) of your choice from their list, normally for a 3 year period. They do other things too, like wheelchairs, but I don't know the details of those schemes.

Sometimes you have to pay an advance payment when leasing a car. This is non returnable, but there are many vehicles on the list where no advance payment is necessary. Insurance and maintainance is included in the deal.

Anyhow, here is the link for the Motbility site. They'll be much more info there and you can see the lists of the vehicles too.

http://www.motability.co.uk/main.cfm

I think all you have to pay for is tyres and petrol and there is a mileage limit.

I think all you have to pay for is tyres and petrol and there is a mileage limit.

When my ex had a motobility car, he was allowed one change of tyres per 3-yr contract, IIRC.

I presume it was worked out, on the premise that you get x-thousand miles out of a set of tyres, which i imagine corresponds with something like half your mileage allowance over the 3 yrs (which was 36,000 miles over the 3 yrs, 12,000 miles per year, back then)

I believe your mileage allowance is either 39, 000 or 42,000 miles over the 3 years, these days, and if you go over a certain percentage excess, you have to pay them an amount per mile over.

PS, when you lease the car for the three years, you get your insurance and (I think) a breakdown cover (rac/ green flag/ AA) and your MOT's if it is not a brand new vehicle.

Your road tax should be covered with an exemption:- if you qualify for a motability contract, you will be entitled to a rebate on your road fund licence (tax disc)but there's only one exemption per person, so you can't have two cars, and claim an exemption on both cars.

You can either lease the car and return it after the three year duration, or you can buy the car, (useful if you have had adaptations done to the car), and it's yours after the three or four year period.

However, you have to find your own insurance, and your own MOT's on a "buy" contract.

The other thing is, you can buy a wheelchair through motability:- a manual chair, or a power chair or a "scoota". (you can only buy one thing at a time, mind you. you can buy a chair, or you can buy a car, you can't have both at the same time.

I think all you have to pay for is tyres and petrol and there is a mileage limit.

No Tyres are included.

ASAW - even if you decide not to use any higher rate DLA to get a car you will also be entitles to disability Tax Disc, where you don't pay the road tax.

Contact DVLA for more details

Just to clarify what you get currently.

Firstly you give over your mobility element of the DLA to pay for the lease etc of the car.

You get the car as stated - I would advise having a test drive first as you will be stuck with the car for 3 years.

You have full comprehensive insurance - you don't work up a no-claims bonus however if you don't claim during the lease you will get a cash reward, if you do need to claim you pay an excess of £75 (for fully qualified drivers over 25)

You get tyres (done by Kwik Fit) this is for all normal maintenance and any punctures.

You get break down cover (RAC) and they will be aware you are a motorbility customer so will get priority.

You get a service every year (no MOT as its a new car so doesn't need one until its 3 years old) - you also get any maintenance done free of charge for normal wear and tear not if abuse.

Some dealer are better than overs. Hartwells (now Pentegon) were rubbish, we currently having to use their body shop for a repair following a breakin to our car and they haven't changed - we are having to chase everything and they even texted us to call them after details had been passed onto them by insurance company.
Our current dealer (not the one we signed the car with but they do not deal with our make of car) in Ecclesfield (name escapes me but its the Rover/MG dealer now Hyundai) are great for simple things like bulb changes they will ask us to bring it in and do it in minutes at Hartwells could take days.

Also you do get an exception - Motorbility keep hold of your log book, and if you do get pulled the police are aware of this and will contact them. Also the tax disc (except the first one) will be mailed to you in advance.

You can have two named drivers on the car and only those will be insured. You can take the car to Europe but need to inform the insurance first so they can alter your insurance cover as needed.

Any other questions PM me

Hello can anyone help?

As i found when my mother was able to claim for things but didn't find out till age concern told her. Claiming anything from the government is a secret society, they don't let you know unless you ask.

Over the last few years well abou 12 I have suffered from osteoarthritis in both knees. Enough to say I have to sit and rest about every 10-15 mins and would be lost without my car. I obtained a blue badge last year but the questions are:
1) Would i get disability working allowance?
2) If I did would I qualify for motorbility and how?

Hope you can help.:help:

The qualification for help through Motability has pretty much been outlined, but it certainly is a while since you've needed to deal with any form of benefit, as DWA was scrapped nearly nine years ago!

It was replaced by the Disabled Person's Tax Credit, is now part of thw Working Tax Credit, and the responsibility for this lies with HM Revenue and Customs.

To be eligible, you need to be working for at least 16 hours per week, and have an illness or disability which puts you at a disadvantage in the the workplace and fulfil certain benefit criteria.

If you meant Disability Living Allowance, there are no real hard and fast rules regarding it being awarded to you (it all boils down to medical opinion), but you must be receiving the higher rate of the mobility component to gain access to the Motability scheme, as has been stated.

I don't know your age, but you must be under 65 to claim DLA, otherwise the benefit is called Attendance Allowance, and doesn't have a mobility component to it. Both of these benefits are administered by the Disability and Carers Service, which is part of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Hope that helps!