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7 years 1 month ago #181109 by Pat Allerton
LOST MOTABILITY CAR was created by Pat Allerton
Hi , I was on Low Rate Care and Higher Rate Mobility under the DLA system. After PIP claim I have, like many others, been put on Standard Rate for Mobility which decreases the payment and Standard Rate for Care which increases the payment . .which means the total payment stays the same. even though I had no complaint re the lower rate of care. But the effect of this is that I now lose my Motability car. We have requested the Mandatory Reconsideration but the car had to be back by 7th Feb and we decided to buy our current one we have been given the £2000 discount off the £9300 so have cashed in our ISA savings to fund the £7300 balance . We have also had to take out insurance at a cost of £1200 through Autonet as advised to us by Motability .
We now await the log book so that we can get the car taxed so have been unable to drive it since 7th Feb. Hopefully those documents will arrive before the weekend.
As you can imagine this has been a thoroughly stressful time adding to a horrendous past few months where I have been hospitalised twice with a really bad flare up . They gave be a home visiting nurse/ carer to help wash and dress me and now I am over the flare up , which they had warned be would probably last months rather than weeks,, I then became ill and unable to take the morphine and oramorph and gabapentin . We are now in the process of reducing the morphine back down but it can really leave me feeling very rough. I have lost 2 stone over Christmas so every cloud eh ? lol.
But my main point is that it does seem like a deliberate ploy to stop Motability entitlement for so many desperate people. My husband whilst going around the car dealerships trying to decide what to do about the car,.was shocked to hear stories from them of for example a man with no legs had his car taken back, another man who could only use his left arm and had his car fully adapted for his use had to hand the car back ! The car salesmen themselves were disgusted at what has been happening.

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7 years 1 month ago #181130 by Gordon
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