Disability Living Allowance And Motability, Money Missing, I Think..

[::Lisa::]

Hi all,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this, so feel free to move it should there be a better area.

I will try and explain as best as possible, but I'm not the best person to explain things so as through as possible. I have been been claiming DLA since Jan 05. I am severely disabled with Psoriatic Arthritis. Presently am now on Medium Care and High Mobility. In May 05, I bought my own car using the Motability services at Hartwell Ford. At the time, I was surrendering ALL my Mobility to pay for the car. At that time surrendering it all was £169.20 per 4 weekly. It states that on the receipt for the car contract that £169.20 will be paid every 4 weekly for 52 weeks. OK, that's fine by me.

As I said above, I get High Mobility and Med Care. On this website. It states...

* Mobility - £46.75 pw (£187 per 4 weekly payments)
* Care - £44.85 pw (£179.40 per 4 weekly payments).
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Both added up to make grand total of £366.40
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The strange thing though is that if you take that grand 4 weekly total amount of £366.40 and remove the car payment of £169.20 it leaves me with £197.20. OK? I'm not getting that though. They're paying me £183. Where is the rest of my money going? Are they allowed to take it? Is there something I'm missing? Are they allowed to take more than the £169.20 for the car to make it pay off faster?

I'm confused where my money is going. Please could someone help me, is this normal? It must have been going on quite some time, but I have always trusted them to work it out, until now.

-Lisa

[blue4ever]

Hi
You should have recieved correspondance from the d.w.p for a payment increase 07/04/2008 on the paper work,this should telll you the amount each week you will recieve. This hopefully will show how they have split the claim for the car/and your self.





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paul

[qbal]

Hi,

The amount they have been taking is correct. The link to the website you gave gives the new amounts after their recent increase. The original amounts for last year would have been:

Mobility £45.00 (may 05 rates = £42.30)
Care £43.15

Total for four weeks is £352.60. Minus your payment of £169.20 leaves £183.40.

(Your payment of £169.20 is at the rate of higher mobility from 2005/2006)

Your next DLA payment should show as the revised amount due from April 08. Giving you a total payment to you of £197.20 every four weeks from 5th April 2008

[::Lisa::]

Originally Posted by blue4ever

Hi
You should have recieved correspondance from the d.w.p for a payment increase 07/04/2008 on the paper work,this should telll you the amount each week you will recieve. This hopefully will show how they have split the claim for the car/and your self.

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paul

Thanks Paul. I've not received anything yet from them sadly. I just got paid today (on 8th) from them too, same amount, so I assume the new amounts will come in on my next 4 weekly payment, next month

Originally Posted by qbal

Hi,

The amount they have been taking is correct. The link to the website you gave gives the new amounts after their recent increase. The original amounts for last year would have been:

Mobility £45.00 (may 05 rates = £42.30)
Care £43.15

Total for four weeks is £352.60. Minus your payment of £169.20 leaves £183.40.

(Your payment of £169.20 is at the rate of higher mobility from 2005/2006)

Your next DLA payment should show as the revised amount due from April 08. Giving you a total payment to you of £197.20 every four weeks from 5th April 2008

That is brilliant. Thank you ever so much for your time and your breakdown, I had just automatically assumed that the website hadn't been updated as of yet. Duh me! Thanks again. Much appreciated.