Financial support for people with disabilities using their own car

Access to disability services is based on an individual assessment of the need for services. New clients are referred to disability services through the client and service counselling Soihtu or the client and service counselling for the elderly. The assessment of the need for services first evaluates the suitability and adequacy of the services in accordance with the Social Welfare Act.

If you are applying for disability services for the first time and are under 65 years of age, contact the Soihtu Team in your municipality by phone, via Varha App or fill in the form: Ilmoitus/yhteydenotto sosiaalihuoltoon tuen tarpeen arvioimiseksi (huoli-ilmoitus).

If you are over 65 years old, you can contact the client and service counselling for the elderly. The customer helpline for services for the elderly is available on weekdays in Finnish on 02 313 2100 (9-15) and in Swedish on 02 313 2200 (9-15).

If you are already a client of Varha’s Disability Services and you are applying for a new service or a change to an existing service, you can contact your designated Disability Services employee or fill in the Disability Services application form. The Disability Service Application is for existing clients of the disability services.

If you don't know who to contact, you can contact the disability services office or disability services counsellor in your area.

When applying for financial support for the car, the customer must submit the application as an appendix

- a medical advice that is not older than one year

- A statement from a work or physiotherapist, which explains the need for additional equipment and the car characteristics required in view of the necessary needs required by the customer's disability or illness.

- A written cost estimate of the car dealer for the car planned to be purchased, including a technical division of the car's equipment level, cost calculations for additional equipment needed due to injury or illness, and an estimate of the costs of the changes to them

- an estimate of the repayment of the old car made by a car dealer or other party

- Advance message on repayment of car tax

- decision on other grants or compensation granted for the purchase of car and

- Other justifications for granting financial support for the car.

The customer can apply for the service before the purchase of the car, or to have the purchase costs reimbursed afterwards.

Contact the services for the disabled in your town of residence.

You can receive special services under the Disability Services Act if you have a long-term and permanent illness, impairment or disability that means you absolutely need support and assistance with your daily activities. These services and support measures are provided to you if you do not receive sufficient and appropriate services under any other law. Disability services are intended to complement other social services and health and medical services.

Financial support for the purchase of a car or other means of transport is one of the ways in which a disabled person's mobility is supported. Mobility support for disabled persons is intended for persons who have special difficulties in moving and who, because of their disability or illness, cannot, without unreasonable difficulties, use public transport independently. The wellbeing services county may grant you financial support for the purchase of a car or other means of transport and for modification of it, within the framework of the budget, based on an individual needs assessment, provided that the criteria for the provision of the service for mobility support are met. The wellbeing services county has directed the service primarily to students or working disability services and families with disabled children, in situations where the use of a car is necessary and the need for mobility is frequent and regular.