We Need Your Help! What's Your Experience With Motability?🚗

How would anyone know that a car is under Motability rather than your privately owned transport ?

There is no badge or label on it - saying MOTABILITY.

If you are granted PIP mobility when you are under pension age - and your award continues into/past Pension age - you continue to receive Mobility - which is not a fair way of doing things!

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If that's the problem, don't get a car on Motorbility, use the PIP payments to fund an older vehicle. I've never used the Motorbility scheme purely because I can't be sure that my PIP mobility payment won't be taken away because an assessor who has no idea how a brain injury can affect a person decides I'm not in constant pain, with all the knock on problems. Lose PIP, lose car, lose all my independence and end up virtually housebound.

I use my allowance to fund a loan that pays for a vehicle, and keep it until something has to change. I've had to go from a manual car, to an automatic, and now I need an automatic WAV. I've nearly finished paying off the loan for that. Should my PIP be removed at my next review, at least I'll be able to keep my WAV on the road whilst I'm fighting to get it back.

thanks for your suggestions- unfortunately we do not have the income or circumstances to pass a credit check (due to previous poverty and missing on bills). We found the motability scheme attractive as it’s easier - husband struggles everytime to transfer and we found the idea of having a motability car attractive due to the seats that swivel and gives us more economical advantage than spending a fortune on XL Ubers and manually having to help him get in. His OT recommended some swivel discs & a curved slide board so we use that but we have to carry them everywhere- sometimes we find it quicker and less cumbersome with manual assistance (minus strain on my back)

My son and I have a driving license but we don’t have a car. So at present we grin and bear with the UBER trips

Motability is far more concerned with the ability to sell on the cars and powerchairs than with the needs and real life of disabled people. They scraped my car taking it up-country to be sold at the end of my lease and blamed it on me. I was banned from the scheme and it took my dad six months on the phone to get them to let me back on. Even he was shocked at the violence of their language towards him about me. Years later, my (now ex) boyfriend's powerchair was damaged by someone else. They picked up on lots of little bits of what was normal wear and tear and demanded to know exactly when and where they happened. Again, they were so rude to him that he was really distressed and I had to take the phone from him.

From: https://thiis.co.uk/motability-responds-to-reports-about-the-government-planning-tax-changes-to-benefits-scheme/

Speculation is mounting that the Chancellor Rachel Reeves is considering reforms to the Motability scheme which allows disabled people to access cars through the benefits system.

The Chancellor is looking at scrapping tax breaks worth around £1billion a year, cutting an exemption which allows cars leased under the scheme to be exempt from VAT or insurance premium tax.

BMWs, Mercedes and other luxury cars could also be removed from the scheme, according to The Times.

In a statement Motability commented: “You may have seen news stories about the possibility of tax changes to the Motability Scheme. These reports are based on media speculation and NOT on any formal announcement.