Sue Allcock had to spend £22k on adapted van for her wheelchair because she was 'pensionable age'
Sue Allcock tells ITV Granada Reports correspondent Elaine Willcox about her shock at being refused a motability vehicle
The usually busy 74-year-old, from Glossop, regularly took care of her grandchildren, travellws in her motorhome, and is a big part of her local cricket club.After applying for help to fund a special motability vehicle to keep her independence, she was told she did not qualify, and was too old. "My life has just totally changed from upstairs to downstairs and I need help to do everyday things".Jo Williams, Sue's daughter and a physiotherapist, is moving her family closer to her mum to be able to help along with her brother.
The family were told Sue had developed the spinal condition before she was 65, and had received her state pension, she would have been able to get an adapted vehicle as part of a benefits package. “Confidence to travel is a major prerequisite to engaging with family, access to a livelihood, maintaining a social life and, in other words, living a fulfilled life."We seek to transform the lives of 4,000 people in the first year and through systematic change, ultimately tens of thousands of people accessing all the travel support and advocacy they need.
"It might also give them a louder voice to enable things to change for those in wheelchairs, in terms of better support."
Transport Martin Hibbert Glossop
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