AIBU to feel horrified at the number of Motability vehicles being provided?

I mean it's a bit of a low blow to begrudge a single mum with disabled kids help.
I doubt she can work much as she needs to be there for her kids....should she starve?
And she probably needs 4 bedrooms for said kids.
And no...I doubt she popped out the kids specifically for the benefits.

Motability is a charity.

Cars can be leased through the mobility component payment of DLA/PIP.

Which is payable, if entitled to it, whether a car is leased or not. Claimants cannot get the cash and the car.

Every car made and every car leased, provides others with employment.

More important things to worry about really. 🙄

As for housing - no one is just ‘given’ a home. If the income is low enough, working or not, then people can apply for help with their rent, whether in social housing, or a private let.

These ‘I’m horrified at who is getting what, because I’m not’ threads seem to be at least weekly lately. 🤷‍♀️

If she was a single woman with no disabilities and no kids with a high paying full time job then yes...it would be fraud.
But having well kids is hard enough ...but children with disabilities is next level hard...and expensive.
The comments about sterilisation are a bit Dritte Reich for me!

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?!

This is why the mobility scheme exists, to offer people the option to use that £80 a week to lease a car instead! I just don't get why people have an issue with it.

Oh I can help with that one - it's because they're ill-informed, spiteful, or both.

That's nice, dear.

I mean I get it, but yours is not a very nice response nonetheless. And needless to say I’m not your “dear”. Last I checked this is a forum for posting stuff on it?!

I have nothing to gain from posting on a subject like this, since I’m a forrin anyway so it’s not like I can vote in national elections.

But it’s good to expand the hate I receive I guess, it’s not only for being forrin but now it’s also for writing something completely true (to the point where I was shitting myself posting that it could be identifiable)

Have a lovely day, dear. And congrats on your lightning speed response 👍🏻

Thats just bollocks there are two ways of qualifying for High rate mobility
One is being unable to walk for ( i think) 200 metres
And the other is not being able to plan a journey and travel from A to B independently
A " little limp" wouldnt cover it
Also if its " high spec"
He would be using a considerable amount of his OWN money to fund it.

Oh my god ok it’s bollocks. So the cars and my neighbour and the chats we had living next door to him for ten years were all illusions. Fuck that, I’m not going to be bombarded with stupid notifications all day.

Well dont post nonsense then.

Was he retired before or after he got his high spec cars?

Ok 👍🏻 The only truth is whatever x2boys says. Anything else, is a nonsense that I’ve dreamt up. Christ, some people just refuse to accept they do not know 100% of everything.

Weird gotcha post but whatever I’ll bite, he was long retired when we moved next door to him so yeah he was retired before he showed off to us his first car.

I love the various gotcha posts on something that is completely true 🤣😭🤣😭🤣 Hilarious and infuriating in equal measure but ok

This, you need oodles of evidence of higher tier treatment and care.

Weird gotcha post but whatever I’ll bite, he was long retired when we moved next door to him so yeah he was retired before he showed off to us his first car

I asked because it is relevant. DLA/PIP cannot be awarded for the first time once the claimant is past retirement age.

No DLA/PIP = no "high spec" Motability car.

It's 20 meters. But you can also qualify if you meet criteria for both following a journey and moving around if you get at least 12 points overall

Sounds like he was just enjoying winding you up.

This. A test of gullibility.

@TwoBagsOfCompost one of the first things labour did was tighten the criteria on mobily funded cars.

No more soft tops, no more Mercedes etc. Milage is also limited so your spouse/ partner can't use it for work. I have RA and other conditions. I've had it for 23 years post partum.
Even though at times I've needed a wheelchair I didn't receive enhanced Pip. It is really difficult to get. It took me twenty years and a further life limiting illness to get it.

Your neighbour is a liar and a scumbag. There are a few about including people who claim not to be living with a partner but claim UC as a single person. I believe PIP fraud is the lowest of all rogue benefit claims.

If we hadn't raised the pension age the young would have some job opportunities and those that are ill and tired could have a pension and retire. Many people claim PIP because they can't access their pension. Go into any retail outlet and you'll find mature workers who would really like to be retired. They've paid their full NI and loose PIP at retirement although they can get attendance allowance (half the money) if they have nothing else and are disabled. Young people are claiming pip for MH conditions as they are unsupported with no access to therapy or employment opportunities that would give them a sense of worth
If you saw daily the rubbish that the media puts out about feckless young people (NEETS apparently) you too would feel distraught.

I thought I was disabled but it was nothing compared to the last two years of my life. I'd happily taken myself to Switzerland. My pension contributions would die with me as you can't claim as a widower anymore!

Oh and the work projects 'aka workhouses' don't exist because it's against our human rights. I'd be very interested to know what product or service they'd be providing because we make nothing in the UK. A laundry perhaps?

Why would they be paying out, for something that you think, that they do not need?

Just a bit of reverse psychology here.

If outraged 'tax payers' repeatedly tell others that it's really easy to get a paid for mobility car it will increase the amount of 'fraudsters' who apply.

If they spent their time shouting about how hard it is to get a car then the 'feckless' may not apply?

That's how our DD1 (17) qualifies for the enhanced rate. She can't plan journeys independently.

I'm sure there would be people who think she shouldn’t be entitled to the enhanced rate as well, as her disabilities (autism, epilepsy and FASD) are hidden.

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/new-campaign-aims-to-make-media-hostility-towards-disabled-people-unprofitable-now-it-needs-your-help/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVIDcdjbGNrBUgNRWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeYW-CEeAF-5S61Vx-X4BHl2HTcBmNEPLlVNhwc7c376z0J-NOnk2T3RApAT8_aem_DQn7BxU-PfaRE0QEPjKirQ

Just popping this in here for anyone interested in the debate.

The dangerous propaganda must be challenged.

I have RA and other conditions. I've had it for 23 years post partum.
Even though at times I've needed a wheelchair I didn't receive enhanced Pip. It is really difficult to get. It took me twenty years and a further life limiting illness to get it.

What were you playing at? You were doing it wrong - all you need to do is put on a bit of limp and say 'Ooh me back' every now and again and you get given a gold plated Bentley. My neighbour told me.