Driving instructor suspension: your rights
Working out your losses
You’ll need to work out your income and non-income losses to send your claim.
Work out your income losses
You’ll need to work how much you’d have reasonably expected to earn during the time you were suspended.
This should be based on your income for a period that you can directly compare with, for example the same period the previous year.
You should base your claim on the period that best compares to the time you were suspended if you cannot directly compare with a previous year.
If your claim is for a different amount to what’s shown in the previous period, you should explain why, for example a major change in how many pupils you taught in the weeks just before you were suspended.
Work out your non-income losses
Your claim will need to make clear:
- how the non-income losses were incurred
- why they are reasonable costs
- how you have worked them out
You’ll need to send documents that clearly support your claim.
You can claim for the value of any damage that the suspension caused to your driving school business if you run one.
You can claim for the interest paid on a loan that you took out because your income stopped from being suspended.
Help working out your non-income losses
You can claim for the cost of preparing your compensation application. This can include the cost of getting expert help to work out how much your non-income losses are.
You’ll need to prove that the cost was reasonable, for example by showing that you did not pay a higher fee than usually applies.