Mobility car. Who can use it...?

A question about : Mobility car. Who can use it...?

The situation:

My auntie has been awarded full DLA after sevel years of hell and a list of ailments as long as ET's phone number!

Anyway, she has placed her order for her car and is due to collect it in a few weeks time. Obviously my Uncle is going to be able to use the car too as he will be named on the insurance.

Will my Uncle be able to use the car to get to and from work?

This was a heated debate we were having the other nite and I was saying that the car is for my Auntie to use. Yes my uncle can drive it, but not to get him to and from work...

Your opinions please.

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Best answers:

• On the motability website it states the rules - although your aunt doesnt need to be in the car when he drives it - the car must be used for the purpose of the disabled person if she is not in it - ie - to get the disabled persons shopping, medicines etc. -
• Thanks. That's what I was thinking, but couldnt seem to get people to understand.
• Go onto the motobility website and print off the page and waft it under his nose ... i am sure that many people use motability cars and dont strictly stick to the rules - i know someone who uses her husbands motability car to do the school run daily. The rules are clear - but i guess its up to your uncle and aunt if they adhere to them !!!
• I always wonder in reallity who`s going to check?
• I know a few people who use the car for their own purposes. They will not listen to what i say. They fall under the umbrella ''it will never happen to me''
  Just wondering if caught is the driver insured when not using the car for intended use?
• On the motability website you can 'Ask Mo'. She says that the customers spouse can use the car for work.
• There was an article in my local newspaper a year or so ago about a crackdown on illegal use of BBs and it mentioned that some people using the badge illegally were also fined for having no car tax as the tax is only valid if the disabled person is in the car.
• This is about the use of the car, not the Blu Badge. But thanks anyway
• When i was a teenager, about 25 years ago, my mum was claiming disability and had a free road tax for the private family car. On my way to collect my sister from school a local plod stopped me and told me i am not allowed to use the car. I asked him why because i was insured on it. He told me that due to the disabled road tax disc the car is only to be used for the purpose of my mum. I told him i was collecting her daughter from school and he let me go.
  However my father used the car for work.
• Using the vehicle
  To claim exemption from paying vehicle tax, the vehicle must be registered in your name or registered in the name of someone you nominate to drive for you (a nominee).
  The vehicle must only be used for your purposes, for example shopping or getting prescriptions.
  If it is being used by the nominee or someone else for their own personal needs, then the exemption will be lost. If you no longer qualify for vehicle tax exemption, you will need to tax your car in the appropriate tax class and pay the correct rate of vehicle tax.
  https://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Disabled...ce/DG_10028003
• Going back to the use of the car we have had motability cars over many years and have got the Insurance from RSA changed to business use as cover for if her car is ever out of commission so in effect the disabled person doesn't have to be present and as one other poster put it if she couldn't use my car should hers be unuseable then I as the disabled person would suffer due to loss of earnings etc....
• lets say for instance, that the person eligable for the motability car is unable to drive and nominates their spouse.
  would it be reasonable for the car to be used solely for the disabled person?
  would the couple need to have 2 cars? one for when the vehicle is being used soley for the benefit of the disabled person and another for anything else?
  no one would get get a motability car if they couldnt drive themsleves, as this would mean accompanying their spouse to work or running 2 cars, both to be driven by the same person!
• But "being used soley for the disabled person" could also mean things like picking up prescriptions and doing errands for them.
• i totally understand that.
  lets say a wheelchair user that cannot drive themselves.
  they apply for a motability car (reliabled/taxed/insured/serviced) the spouse works. should the spouse retain their own vehicle for work? if they did theyd b nuts!