Motorbility

We finally got our new Motorability car its only two weeks overdue! i was really fed up of being stuck in the flat all the time. I will lose £200 of my Disability Living Allowance which is my mobility part but as i won my tribunal appeal i should get £280 a month for higher rate care instead of the £70 a month which i was getting for lower rate care which will make up for the car money really so nothing lost at the end of the day. Motorability cars are a really good deal for disabled people.. you get a new car for three years.. it covers insurance.. tax.. services.. any work that needs doing on the car.. wear and tear and also if the car needs any disability adaptations.. there are lots of other things too.. sometimes there are charges for certain things http://motorbility.com/index.htm

Hopefully the DLA will sort it all out soon with no screwing up, i called the Disability Living Allowance people friday and they said they hadn't even received notice from the Tribunal Service saying i had won the tribunal and its been almost two weeks!! it looks like its going to be a while before its all organized and i get my backdated money. The Motorability company should tell the DLA i have the car and that should sort that out.. its all risks of getting screwed up and its all likely to happen to me.. geez all stress last thing i need.. the man on the phone at the DLA said that sometimes the Decision maker for the DLA sometimes appeals the Tribunals decision which kinda seems pointless.. whats the point of the Tribunal in the first place if someones going argue against the result! i hope he doesn't argue against mine i have been through enough!

One thing that was really annoying yesterday i had a letter in the post from the ILA (Independent Living Association) asking me if i wanted to be put on a list for 30 days for the 'possibility' of getting a representative at my tribunal.. erm well my tribunal was on the 1st of march.. a little late.. sigh.. but oh well i did well without them..