Now the Conservatives want your Mobility car

Fuzzy200
Fuzzy200 Community Member Posts: 53 Empowering
in Transport and travel

It just flashed up on my news feed, if the Conservatives win the next election they want to cut back on who has a mobility car

Kemi Badenoch vows crackdown on subsidised cars for benefits claimants https://share.google/zQqlR39spX1er1r39

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  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community Member Posts: 15,499 Championing

    I think like with most of these there's a grain of truth in among the sensationalism.

    I've noticed that you can get some quite expensive cars. What the article doesn't point out is you have to make quite a reasonable contribution to them.

    Also just because a car retails for £50k doesn't mean it's worth that. Lots of electric £50k cars are heavily discounted and selling for £35k at the moment. Motability, with the volume of cars they order, probably get them even cheaper than that

    All that said I was very surprised to see I could get a relatively fast car under Motability. I'm hugely grateful for my car, like many it's a lifeline, but I was shocked I could get the fastest model in the range. It's the same car so all the disability-related specs are the same, it's just faster, so why do I need it? I'm aware there are limitless types of disability so maybe that's unfair to say. Of course I chose the fastest one (and love it) so I'm a slight hypocrite but if I was only offered the basic model I'd still be more than grateful.

  • luvpink
    luvpink Community Member Posts: 5,270 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/137807/now-the-conservatives-want-your-mobility-car

    They have very little chance of winning a general election.

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Community Member Posts: 3,663 Championing
    edited August 2025

    Surely PIP is assessed already and if the individual is found to have poor mobility to receive enhanced PIP “getting around” – they are entitled to use Motability ?

    So Torys are planning on having another layer of assessments ?

    They want us all to drive ….

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  • worried33
    worried33 Community Member Posts: 1,087 Championing

    Its already only for people with severe mobility problems, anyone who thinks e.g. 50m limitation isnt severe needs looking at.

    These type of articles is why the press need regulating.

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