Hi all
I`m new to the backroom and was just wondering why I get a car on motability but have to pay for the wheelchair out of my hard earned? any explanations very welcome thanks!
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SWMBO says:
"Unfortunately you can have the car, or the wheelchair, but not both. It seems a bit stupid, but that's just the way it is (like Bruce Hornsby said). It's just one of their rules".
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No disrespect, but why do you feel that you should be given everything for nothing? Other people have to use their hard earned to pay for their transport.
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I dont feel that I should get everything for nothing! But I fail to see how they can make sense of having a scheme where you can have a car and no wheelchair so you can look at your car and not be able to get to it cos you have no chair!
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Hi all I`m new to the backroom and was just wondering why I get a car on motability but have to pay for the wheelchair out of my hard earned? any explanations very welcome thanks!
Because the car takes much more of your hard earned. You really want it the other way round?
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Sensitive subject. Please be thoughtful before posting
smokie. BR Moderator
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Are you referring to an ordinary wheelchair or a powered version?
My wife got an ordinary wheelchair through the NHS for the period for which it was required; a friend who suffered a spinal illness also had an NHS supplied wheelchair but, eventually, bought his own powered version which makes it easier to get in and out of his adapted vehicle.
The vehicle, a Citroen Berlingo, has a pull down ramps section at the rear and, once in the Citroen, my friend remains in the wheelchair which is firmly secured for the journey. His wife does all the driving.
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What\'s for you won\'t pass you by
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If you qualify for the higher rate of the mobility component of the disabled living allowance, meaning that basically you can't walk, you can use this money to lease a motability vehicle. By the same token if you are in that bad a state the local NHS wheelchair service should provide you with a chair that suitably full fills your needs. Contact them.
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>>By the same token if you are in that bad a state>>
Sensitivity is not your style then...?
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What\'s for you won\'t pass you by
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Or you could use a couple of months DLA to pay for a chair and then get a car on Motability with the DLA.
Blue
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I don't need to be sensitive about it Stuartli, I am in that state.
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