Re-instatement of Full Mobility by tribunal

A friend with MS lost his Motability vehicle upon the change from DLA to PIP. He purchased his own vehicle and is now awaiting a tribunal date in the hope of having full mobility re-instated.

I recently had a DWP decision overturned by tribunal and had full mobility returned to me. I did not have a Motability vehicle. I had no difficulty in receiving a full refund from the DVLA for the one and a half year's worth of road tax I had to pay whilst waiting for the tribunal.

But what about my friend? He has gone to considerable expense to purchase a vehicle after his Motability vehicle was taken away from him. If the tribunal overturns the DWP's decision and award him full points for mobility will he be able to, somehow, make a claim for recompense?

Or have ATOS and the DWP done the dirty again?

Gordon, I think I understand the logic in your answer.

However, after the tribunal, the DWP issued me with a new certificate stating that I was on full mobility from such and such a date. I simply sent this certificate to the DVLA with a covering letter and subsequently received a cheque for the full amount of road tax I had paid. I did not have to show/prove that the DWP had made an Official Error.

Together with the back-dated payment I received from the DWP, for the amount of benefit I had missed out on, this fully recompensed me for what it had cost me financially.

It seems to me that anyone who loses their Motability vehicle and has to purchase their own vehicle is losing out financially in exactly the same way as I did with road tax. There is no difference. Of course it would be much more difficult to calculate the actual cost of purchasing one's own vehicle, having to take into account depreciation and so on, but the principle will be the same. (Not having had full No Claims Discount, my friend's first year's insurance cost him £900.)

Presumably, my friend would be able to claim for the road tax he has had to pay.

What a truly terrible system.
IanR