Motability

Transport

June 14, 2018 0

Motability calls police about disabled woman who failed to return car

A disabled woman who refused to return her Motability car after she lost her eligibility for disability benefits was threatened with arrest by police officers after the company reported the vehicle as stolen. Mary Jenkins* was approached by two police officers in the middle of a supermarket carpark on the Isle of Wight on

Transport

May 24, 2018 0

Motability faces calls to increase grants or cut prices after MPs’ fierce criticism

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Disabled activists have told Motability it would be “obscene” not to expand a fund that provides grants to customers with high support needs, after an inquiry heavily criticised the decision to pay the executive running the car scheme £1.7 million. A report by the work and pensions and Treasury select committees says the £1.7

Transport

March 8, 2018 0

Motability ‘tit for tat’ row intensifies as bosses and minister give evidence

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The public “tit for tat” row between the government and Motability has intensified after senior figures in the organisation and the minister for disabled people gave evidence to MPs. The Treasury and work and pensions select committees are holding a joint inquiry following political and media criticism of how the car scheme for disabled

Transport

Esther McVey speaking in the House of Commons

February 22, 2018 0

Tory peer attacks McVey over ‘litany of inaccuracies’ on Motability

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A Tory peer has accused work and pensions secretary Esther McVey of making a series of untrue statements about the Motability car scheme to fellow MPs. Lord Sterling, who co-founded Motability in 1977, has told McVey in a letter that he found the “litany of inaccuracies” in the comments made by her and fellow

Transport

Andrew Knowlman in his wheelchair in front of a van with a woman behind him

February 22, 2018 0

Call for government to ditch ‘discriminatory’ PIP rules for NHS care home stays

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Campaigners are calling on the government to scrap a policy that prevents disabled people with complex healthcare needs receiving the benefits they need to stay mobile if they are living in residential homes. Little-known regulations apparently state that recipients of NHS Continuing Healthcare (NHS CHC) are not eligible to receive the mobility component of

Transport

February 15, 2018 0

Motability row sparks anger and demand to use huge reserves to support customers

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Disabled campaigners have reacted to the political row over the Motability car scheme by calling for the organisation that runs it to use part of its huge financial reserves to increase support for disabled people. Details emerged in a newspaper last week of the “grotesque” levels of pay and bonuses awarded to senior executives

Activism and Campaigning

October 19, 2017 0

Sir Bert Massie: Tributes to ‘a life committed to disabled people’s liberation’

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Tributes have been paid to Sir Bert Massie, the chair of the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) throughout its seven years, who made a “fundamental” contribution to disabled people’s liberation, and who died this week. His other appointments included time as a founding commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), as chief executive

Transport

September 14, 2017 0

Motability’s tyre policy ‘risks safety of customers’

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The Motability car scheme has been accused of risking the safety of its disabled customers, by refusing to replace their tyres until they are only just above the legal minimum tread depth. Disabled campaigner Ian Jones, one of the founders of the WOW petition, said that the position of Motability Operations contradicts the advice

Benefits and Poverty

July 6, 2017 0

PIP reassessments cause more than half DLA claimants to lose Motability rights

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More than half of those disabled people previously eligible for the Motability vehicle scheme have lost that eligibility after being reassessed for the government’s new disability benefit, according to a freedom of information response. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) figures show fewer than half (about 126,000) of the 254,000 people previously receiving

Benefits and Poverty

The Queen talks to a bearded man in a wheelchair, with Motability vehicles behind them

April 27, 2017

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Minister announces new PIP flexibility on Motability… but no sign of scheme extension

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Disabled people hit by the government’s benefit reassessment programme will be able to keep their Motability vehicles for up to six months while they appeal against losing their eligibility, thanks to a new series of measures. The changes will help former claimants of disability living allowance (DLA) who lose their eligibility for the higher

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