Luxury cars removed from the motability scheme

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https://news.sky.com/story/luxury-cars-removed-from-motability-scheme-ahead-of-budget-13475029

too little too late. As a full time worker I can’t afford to run a car, let alone a luxury car. Motability should be a standard car - available in automatic and manual, an option for wheelchair users, and that’s it.

There may be some specific exceptions but for the majority other brands are more appropriate. Functionality should be the primary objective. Bottom line is that having a disability doesn't give someone the right to aspirational items.

Absolutely. My daughter will never work, have a family or even live independently. I’d swap the car for her life to be normal, for want of a better word

Just heard the end of a discussion on notability cars on Jeremy Vine. Was surprised to hear ex DWP doctor state that the whole notability scheme whilst he was working there was wide open to abuse.

"Bottom line is that having a disability doesn't give someone the right to aspirational items."

Wow. Just wow.

No you don't
Absolutely nobody is getting a mobility car for mild anxiety stop talking bollocks 🙄

No, but being able to afford to pay for aspirational items does. Which is exactly how the motability scheme works. If you want luxury, you pay for it.

Why should disabled higher earners be excluded from having nice things just because they need adaptations because of their disability?

The disabled person has paid an extra up front payment for the car with the better residual (luxury car). They will not get that money back, but mobility benefits from the luxury car resale.

What bit of "not giving" don't you understand. Its a humongous advance. And if you also look, the models might be BMW/Mercedes but they're not the top models by any stretch.

Anyway the mean minded of your ilk have got their way. Next you'll be shouting for them to go back to reliant robins.

You don't think having access to a vehicle is a nice thing? Is only nice if it is an aspirational brand?

That sounds more like greed than gratitude that a scheme exists at all.

Indeed.

No one was giving them out. People's mobility allowance paid the monthly fee, if you wanted a luxury model you paid the advance payment. This will save tax payers exactly zero pence.

The CEO of Motability received nearly 750,000 remuneration last year.
the whole scheme needs looking at .
Of course people with health issues need safe cars which are appropriate for their needs.
But whether those needs include obtaining such expensive brands and models seems questionable when those funding it can’t afford such choices.

Surely it's the whole PIP / DLA system that's open to abuse? Not Motability. Since you can't access Motability without those benefits. Once you qualify, does it matter if it's spent on a Nissan Joke, or A BMW X1 via Motability, a taxi or a home help every day to wheel you around in a wheelchair?

Its a humongous advance - Why is this money not being put to better use?

Nobody ‘needs’ a posh car. But why shouldn’t they if they’re paying for them themselves (which they are)? Are we a communist state?

Do people truly believe that a disabled person shouldn’t have anything better than ‘basic’ just because they’re disabled?

If they can afford the uplift they should not be ‘entitled’ to a Motability car /they can just lease a basic model themselves.

Because the people earning the money want to spend it on a car? What do you think they should be spending their own money on?

How about we stop child benefit and give out basic food parcels instead? Why should a parent be entitled to go and spend that money on whatever they want?

Not nice is it

People have this amazing thing called choice. They can choose what to wear, what to eat, where to go...and what to spend THEIR OWN MONEY on.

Well those of a jealous disposition wouldnt need to feel jealous because let's face it this is about jealousy.

How many people here claim child benefit, but would buy a Boden (insert any other aspirational brand) coat for their child. Why aren't you buying cheaper supermarket clothes for your child?

Yeah... doesn't matter that you can't drive it with only one leg or can't get into it with a wheelchair. You can afford it so that's that!

What's 'wow' about that. It's perfectly possible to have a nice car that is not a Mercedes. No person disabled or not has the right to aspirational items they cannot afford. There is almost always a reasonably priced alternative.

1. Could you tell me how I get my electric wheelchair in a standard model? My husband drives my motability car as I don't drive since I became a quadruple amputee. You have shown your ableism very succinctly in your 3 sentence post - congratulations.

They're using their own money to pay for it. If they couldn't afford it, they wouldn't have it.

What is so difficult about that to understand????