the country's only news agency specialising in disability issues
Tax changes announced by Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves last November will cost disabled people who lease a Motability* car more than £400 each on average, the company that runs the scheme has told Disability News Service (DNS). Reeves announced last November […]
A devastated disabled woman had her Motability vehicle taken away after failing to respond to letters and emails that ordered her to sign up to the flawed Drive Smart programme, even though the scheme had been suspended. Hibah Abdi, who used […]
More than 50 disabled people have had to hand back their Motability vehicles since the company introduced a controversial and “discriminatory” new scheme that monitors how safely its customers are driving. Figures released to Disability News Service last night (Wednesday) show […]
Disabled customers have called on Motability to pause a “discriminatory” scheme that monitors how they drive, until it is accurate and fit for purpose. They say the design of the Drive Smart scheme – which now applies to all under-30s and […]
A Motability customer has launched a legal action against the Treasury over budget measures that he says will put at risk the mobility “lifeline” the scheme provides to disabled people. Charlie Proctor, from Dorset, sent a legal letter to the Treasury […]
An “absolutely awful” mobile phone app that helps the Motability scheme monitor the driving behaviour of increasing numbers of disabled people is securing overwhelmingly poor reviews from its customers. The Drive Smart scheme, which launched last August, allows Motability Operations to […]
A disabled actor has accused the Motability scheme of putting young disabled people’s freedom at risk and taking away their choice and control by forcing them to sign up to an “offensive” new system that monitors how they drive. The Drive […]
November’s changes to the Motability car scheme – including tax rises introduced by the government – are already restricting disabled people’s freedom to travel, according to a letter signed by 70 disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) and allies. The letter, co-ordinated by […]
Disabled people have warned of “severe” consequences if the chancellor goes ahead with reported plans to remove the Motability car scheme’s VAT exemption in next month’s budget. Disability News Service (DNS) reported last week how the company that runs the scheme, […]
The company that runs Motability has repeatedly refused to say how much money the four high street banks that own the business are making from the £7 billion-a-year disabled people’s vehicle leasing scheme. Motability Operations, which is owned by Barclays, Lloyds, […]