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68 days ago
The programme allows disability benefit claimants to swap their mobility allowance for a lease on a new car, which are also exempt from VAT and insurance premium tax.
70 days ago
Motability boss sees pay soar to £924,000 thanks to £300,000 bonus after anger over scheme offering access to luxury Mercedes and BMWs ⊕⊕
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Chief executive Andrew Miller, 59, took home £924,000 this year, around a quarter more than the year before, after being handed a huge £300,000 bonus.
83 days ago
As many as one in three new car sales in parts of UK were through taxpayer-funded Motability scheme for welfare claimants, new figures show ○
The Motability scheme allows disability welfare claimants to swap their mobility allowance for a lease on a new car, which are also exempt from VAT and insurance premium tax.
3 months ago
I already feel judged for having a Motability car - the Budget didn't help ⊖
Rachel Reeves has removed tax breaks on insurance and advance payments for high-end Motability cars.
'Premium' cars like BMW and Mercedes cut from Motability scheme ⊕
Motability says it will provide vehicles that meet disabled peoples' needs and are safe and affordable.
BMWs and Mercedes are removed from Motability scheme after Rachel Reeves said leasing luxury cars to disability claimants is 'unfair' to working families ⊖
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Motability announced it will 'immediately' stop offering the luxury models, in addition to cars made by Audi, Alfa Romeo and Lexus.
The Motability map of Britain: Areas with the highest number of benefit claimants entitled to brand new car under the controversial £3BILLION scheme ⊕
Motability was set up to help Brits with serious physical disabilities get around. But the bloated scheme is now being used by people with a wide variety of ailments.
Give blue three-wheelers to Motability drivers, says Reform in its plan for benefits scheme that dishes out new cars to claimants ⊕
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Lee Anderson, the party's chief whip, said today the current scheme - which allows disabled people to obtain financing for luxury brands such as BMWs and Mercedes - was an 'absolute scandal'.
4 months ago
Motability car scheme costs up by EXTRA £275million under Labour ⊕
The cost of Motability - which accounts for more than one in five new cars sold in Britain - increased by almost 10 per cent from £2.8billion to £3.074billion last year.
Reeves sets sights on Motability to save £1billion in Budget: Will Chancellor scrap tax breaks for disability car scheme users? ⊕
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
The Chancellor is considering scrapping tax breaks which spare Motability's 860,000 users from having to pay VAT or insurance premium tax on their leased vehicles.