Yet again, very poor journalism, from the Dail Mail school.
The cost of the Motability scheme per diabled user will NOT be effected by the unreasonable cap now put on tyhe cars available. The whole point of the Advanced payment is that it is the Disabled drivers on cost for having a less basic acr!
This is NOT a cost on the taxpayer and has no effect on the money paid out to Motability!
Dont forget Motability as a charity does not pay VAT, becaiuse they lease in big amounts they get special prices from the manufactureres, so this emotive line of £35,000 cars is spurious and quiet frankly, bad journalism!
Also dont forget, unlike normal lease schemes, any money paid by the driver in AP is lost, its not paid back to the driver. If a disabled person wnats to spend some of their own hard earnbed cash on a better spec acr why should they be stopped? Many of us have worked solidly for 35 years or maore, paying taxes and yet this stupid jealousy rears its ugle head.
Those of us who need an automatic are doubliy penalised ny these new cahnges, as always auto boxes cost more and have a greater AP than manual cars. We now have a much smaller choice and of a lower spec than manual drivers because of this knee jerk reaction by the gutter press.
of course some peopeol abuse the systen, rather like ablked bodies people taking up disabled spaces because they can’t be bothere to walk, but this change penalises the majority for the few who shoukld be rooted out and removed from the scheme.
Please Shropshire Star, do some investugatice work and get the facts, not repring the daily mails lies, which they ahve had to retract.

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i have just read all that has been printted on this site ,and feel that the cases for no limit is correct my reasons are there is no extra cost to anyone APART from the disabled person buying the car and then giving it back and start again ,so WHY has anybody got anything to say about this situation other than the person who is selling the car and the one buying the car , are we the disabled not aloud to drive nice cars (even expencive cars) or like most people these days like benifit fraud every body says disabled people are the scum of the earth because they claim benifits ….were costing the workin people of this country this or that amount ,i have worked all my life and paid into into a system that if somehting happens to me i will be helped to LIVE a normal life and when it comes to that time like many others the public and the govenment try to stop not only me but every one who claims a benifit and just as important the people who are moaning have probaly paid into a system like myself and when they have a problem and THEY will there wont be any help there because the govenment and those who moan like those who moaned about thee above i rest my case . ONE DAY I COULD BE YOU ,disabled !!!!!!!

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