Since it was set up in 1977, the Motability Scheme has provided over four million vehicles and provides cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles (WAVs), scooters and powered wheelchairs.

The Motability scheme gives people with disabilities the chance to use their government-funded disability benefit to lease a new car and other mobility aids, such as scooters and electrically powered ...

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The Motability scheme allows benefit claimants to use their allowance to pay for a car on a three-year lease. They must be claiming one of just six specific mobility-related allowances.

The Motability Scheme allows those receiving the higher rate of Personal Independence Payment benefit to lease a car from the ...

The scheme, managed by Motability Operations, enables individuals receiving certain disability benefits to use part of their award to lease a new car, wheelchair-accessible vehicle, or scooter.

Motability has revenues of around £7bn a year and is responsible for one-in-five new car sales in the UK. It allows people to finance a car or van purchase using government disability allowances.

It was meant to be one of Britain’s quieter welfare programmes – a behind-the-scenes scheme to help people with serious disabilities lease a car, using their benefits.. But Motability has ...

There has been criticism of the use of the scheme to buy high-end vehicles like Mercedes-Benz and Audi cars. But Motability said this represented only 7% of its fleet of 700,000 vehicles.