PIP AWARD WAS REDUCED BUT I AM NOW IN NEED OF ADVICE

montyboy
montyboy Community member Posts: 2 Listener
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My motability award was reduced because I was able to keep eye contact. 

I appealed under the mandory reconciliation  and it was 7 months before they put it back but in the 7 months I still had the car but it was not paid for and now motability want 2000 from me or I have to give the car back.  

I don't think that a un qualified person who is not medically trained is in a position to take this decision on my need for a car then expect me to find 2 grand. 

Any chance you have any information on this. 

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  • montyboy
    montyboy Community member Posts: 2 Listener
    Surely if they don't take the car while it's being reviewed and they don't take the money either and in the 7 months it took to get the award put back to the highest rate as it was for the past 15 years and in the time that it was under reconsider I was paid a different amount of pip each month so I didn't even know what was going on. 

  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Community member Posts: 59,054 Championing
    It sounds correct to me. You continued to lease the vehicle, so now you need to pay what you owe them from the money you received after the 7 month wait. The motability scheme isn't free and you exchange your mobility payments for the lease of a vehicle.
    Having said that i'm very surprised they continued to allow you to keep your vehicle while you didn't have a Enhanced mobility award during those 7 months.

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