Hiya everyone
So what do you think of this.
My brother-in-law has just been bragging to us about his new BMW.
He got it through his father, his dad gets full mobility so got him the BMW, my BIL gets the full use of the car...no tax to pay, no insurance, no repairs, no bills, full valeting service and car servicing including tyres etc, all he needs to pay for is, the petrol and he gives his dad the £180 a month his dad loses from his disability benifits to pay for the car. He doesn't even drive the car for his dad so his dad gets no use of it whats so ever.
I am so angry that people abuse this system, surely this must be illegal to do. I asked why he just doesn't get his own car on finance and the car would be legally his, but basically he said, you can't get a BMW for £180 a month.
Angel x
In a nutshell, a b*y ptake of the highest order!:mad:
The only advice i can offer is perhaps phone the DLA helpline ( a google should find this) and ask them for their opinion.
Warmest wishes- calla lily x
Calla Lily, there is nothing I would like more that to phone the DLA, but I would feel so guilty at doing this as this is my BIL. I have no feelings for the man, I don't even like him, he is so smug, but this is just the worst form of dissing the system I've seen. I'm sure he would only talk his way out of the situation too.
Ooh I know what you mean, I would be mad too. Most people work hard for what they have. The government take money from us to pay for that car. Surely if the powers that be, knew his father was receiving this benefit in the form of a car and wasn't using it, but giving it to someone else, I think they would have something to say.
There are so many loopholes in the claims system though, your brother in law would just have to say he drives his father around and they would have to prove otherwise.
This is the sort of dishonesty thats crippling the country. The films I've seen on TV of people claiming disability benefits and then window cleaning or running marathons or taking part in dangerous sporting activities, it unbelievable.
Then you have the people that need more and the system says 'no'.
Maybe the goverment should start to do secret videoing twice a year on the people who get these cars, think of the money that would be saved. I'm sure they would catch my father-in-law running to the pub every afternoon more than once or twice, there is nothing wrong with him come opening time.
Hiya everyone
So what do you think of this.
My brother-in-law has just been bragging to us about his new BMW.
He got it through his father, his dad gets full mobility so got him the BMW, my BIL gets the full use of the car...no tax to pay, no insurance, no repairs, no bills, full valeting service and car servicing including tyres etc, all he needs to pay for is, the petrol and he gives his dad the £180 a month his dad loses from his disability benifits to pay for the car. He doesn't even drive the car for his dad so his dad gets no use of it whats so ever.
I am so angry that people abuse this system, surely this must be illegal to do. I asked why he just doesn't get his own car on finance and the car would be legally his, but basically he said, you can't get a BMW for £180 a month.
Angel x
Calla Lily said you could report.
I would say that it is the duty of everyone to report such blatant abuse. If it was me, a written report would be with the [url]appropriate Government department whose website is here.[/url]
[url]A rather more pictorial site is here [/url]
I regret to say that abuse of the disability benefit system is very widespread, in my experience. I have seen perfectly able people park in disabled and normal spaces using a disabled badge- frequently.
It's time these abuses stopped.
Regards.
i hate to see this abused, as one who gets the car on disability if i could have a day without pain i would give it up, in this last year i have seen my mobilty go, for example i cannot walk for a time and i need my car to get about when i have a distance to walk, i had a car before i got the dla and i got the car because i have to rely on transport to do the things now that i used to take fore granted. if a see a parking space that i know another person worse off than me i leave it for them. but we are always going to get those who abuse it, but i do feel now that it is harder to get it, i know my doctor had to write to them and they had my scan results to see how bad mine had got, but there is some good actors out there, so maybe the dla should look at everyones hospital records to see what has happened to them.
Hiya CR
I know you personally and see you need your car, your car is your lifeline, without it, you would be grounded. It's just timewasters and brilliant actors like my father-in-law that iritate the life out of me.
I know it is hard to get disability, my hubby was on it 12 years ago after a bad car accident and the forms and tests he had to go through to get it were rigorous back then. But once his injuries were healed, he got up and went back to work.
I don't think they is a test out there yet that can prove that you are faking a bad back, so the docs just have to take people's word for it.
Calla Lily, there is nothing I would like more that to phone the DLA, but I would feel so guilty at doing this as this is my BIL. .
Angel
Have you talked to your sister about this? How does she feel about it?
x
I regret to say that abuse of the disability benefit system is very widespread, in my experience. I have seen perfectly able people park in disabled and normal spaces using a disabled badge- frequently.
It's time these abuses stopped.
Regards.
You are so right, every time and i mean every time I go to the supermarket there is someone who takes up a disabled parking place gets out of the car and has a hop skip and a jump into the shop. Even when I had very small children running in every direction and buggy's to deal with in horrible weather, I never ever used a disabled parking space, they should be caught. I would love to be there when they are!
Hiya Daniela
It's my hubby's brother not my sister, hubby said something but was told that he was only "jelouse" that it wasn't him driving.
Hiya Daniela
It's my hubby's brother not my sister, hubby said something but was told that he was only "jelouse" that it wasn't him driving.
Oops sorry, wrong assumption there...
Shame that your hubby cannot see what is wrong in his own brother's behavior.
I would be extremely tempted to report him.
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My hubby is furious at his behavior. Hubby works really hard to pay for his car and is annoyed that the tax that is taken from his wages each month goes towards people like this.
thats not fair! :mad:you could report it anonymously and never admit to family that it was you who did it ever.deny it.( to protect yourself and family)
if your bil is boasting it to all and sundry i expect someone will report him sooner or later.
Amethystfairy
Hello all at HP,
I agree that this abuse should be looked into and stopped but unfortunatley it is legal because like someone has said the problem is proving that the BIL does not drive Angel's father-in law about. I have a close, personal friend who works in this department of the disability section of the DSS and she says they get literally hundreds of reports a week about this but they don't have the resources to prove that the person the car is allocated to is not being driven around in it.
Love and Peace
Rebecca xx