VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|HarryR|DATE|1366287983|CONTENT|@Peter,

I&#039;m experiencing cognitive dissonance having read of the requirement for Terry to have his need for mobility support re-evaluated and 

a) not being allowed to keep the vehicle until the decision - maintaining the status quo as you say. Couldn&#039;t they just have started the process earlier? Or just let him keep the vehicle until re-evaluation and any appeal process are done, as you say. There seems no obvious reason not to do exactly that.

b) that the vehicle is not a standard vehicle that can be returned to a pool of such vehicles and reassigned to someone else but has been adapted for Terry&#039;s specific requirements and is to be sold off at auction prior to the decision of the re-evaluation, thereby requiring the cost and likely delay in obtaining another vehicle similarly adapted when the re-evaluation process decides the need for mobility still exists.

There&#039;s whiff of corruption about this. Someone somewhere is buying a stream of vehicles cheaper than market price that they can sell on for profit and/or someone is selling more new vehicles and making more refits than the govt needs to fund.

Is there a chance you could buy the vehicle at auction yourselves? That could be exactly what the policy is seeking to encourage you to do, of course. 

Hmm...but in that case why don&#039;t they offer to sell you the vehicle at an attractive price should the decision go against you instead of immediately sending it to auction for a very uncertain and likely low price? ( Cause their mates are there, waiting?)

It seems irrational both from need to meet local social need and the efficient use of resources.

Call a journalist. Or perhaps present the case at a journalism college and see if any of the hot eager minds would like to have a go investigating the rationale for this and interview on the record the players involved. Then send their report to local paper. Would make an interesting project and can&#039;t do any harm.|IP-ADDRESS|77.188.117.206|MODERATIONFLAG|