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Decision Change - what to do about new car ?

skinnygirl101skinnygirl101 Member Posts: 8 Listener
in Motability, Blue Badges and disabled motoring
My PIP decision was changed and I now have the enhanced rate of the mobility component now after being denied it originally. I was told before I could keep my car until early next year but now I have the enhanced rate back , can I order a new car now as it was due to be changed in September or do I have to wait ?. I’m not sure 
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  • poppy123456poppy123456 Member Posts: 22,218 Disability Gamechanger
    Great news. You'll need to contact motability about your new award and they will tell you what happens.
    Community champion and proud winner of the 2019 empowering others award. This award was given for supporting disabled people and their families for the benefit advice i have given to members here on the community.
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  • wilkowilko Member Posts: 2,284 Disability Gamechanger
    Another good news story, get checked out with mobility over your car, good luck.
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  • skinnygirl101skinnygirl101 Member Posts: 8 Listener
    Thank you. I just spoke to them and I have to pay Motability for the months the DWP didn’t pay for the car. I never knew this ?. Anyone else had this experience ?
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  • lindadeniselindadenise Member Posts: 302 Pioneering
    Should receive backdated pay which you can use to pay motability.
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  • skinnygirl101skinnygirl101 Member Posts: 8 Listener
    Thank you Linda , that’s a great help. 
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  • poppy123456poppy123456 Member Posts: 22,218 Disability Gamechanger
    Yes of course you'll have to pay them what you owe, you can't have the car for free.
    Community champion and proud winner of the 2019 empowering others award. This award was given for supporting disabled people and their families for the benefit advice i have given to members here on the community.
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  • skinnygirl101skinnygirl101 Member Posts: 8 Listener
    I was only asking , you don’t have to be so condescending. 
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  • poppy123456poppy123456 Member Posts: 22,218 Disability Gamechanger
    I wasn't being that way. I was just giving you a straight logical answer.
    Community champion and proud winner of the 2019 empowering others award. This award was given for supporting disabled people and their families for the benefit advice i have given to members here on the community.
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  • TopkittenTopkitten Member Posts: 1,263 Pioneering
    I have been in contact with them today and they have a process for handling the loss of a vehicle due to status change and I am sure they have a process for getting it back again. Just give them a ring.

    TK
    "I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell" - from Wrong side of heaven by Five Finger Death Punch.
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  • YadnadYadnad Posts: 2,856 Member
    edited September 2018
    skinnygirl101 said:
    Thank you. I just spoke to them and I have to pay Motability for the months the DWP didn’t pay for the car. I never knew this ?. Anyone else had this experience ?
    No when I lost my PIP for the third time in 5 years like the previous two times, I drove the Motability car back to the dealership on the same day that the decision from the DWP was received.
    It was logical to me - no mobility element of PIP = no Motability car - I had no legal entitlement to keep it
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