VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Administrator (Rev. Dr. Peter Hearty)|DATE|1366289437|CONTENT|@HarryR

I don&#039;t think there&#039;s anything dodgy happening here. There are various ways to use the allowance that Terry is given for mobility. The way the Motability scheme works is something like the following.

- Terry contracts to lease an adapted vehicle from a hire company.
- His allowance then goes direct to that hire company.
- Like any hire car, they are responsible for everything on the vehicle: tax, servicing and MOT after the third year. Insurance is covered by the allowance.
- At the end of 5 years the contract expires and the vehicle returns to the company.

What should happen at this stage is that Terry uses his Motability allowance to set up a new contract with a hire company. What has gone wrong this time is that the DWP have not automatically renewed Terry&#039;s allowance so he&#039;s been unable to arrange a new car hire.

The vehicle&#039;s owners are quite at liberty to do what they want to do with their car at the end of the contract. In this case they&#039;ve taken it back and decided to sell it immediately at auction. It would have been nice if they had given us the option to hire it out for a few more months, but for whatever reason they chose not to. They might have very good reasons for this, such as difficulty in insuring the vehicle outside of the Motability scheme - I don&#039;t know.

As you say, we could put a bid in ourselves. Terry has chosen to wait and see what the outcome of the DWP&#039;s reassessment is before making a final decision.|IP-ADDRESS|94.168.119.214|MODERATIONFLAG|