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The culture war against the disabled & their benefits conitinues with accusations of fraud among users of Motability Operations who organise leases of modified vehicles for disabled users.
On a user base of around 700,000 vehicles, last year the firm removed 5,300 users from their scheme due to miss-use.
These figures are being used to claim the system is rife with miss-use/fraud & should be clamped down on, with added tracking & surveillance of users.
It could get nasty!
#disabled
h/t FT
@ChrisMayLA6 Mis-use of a Motability vehicle does not equal benefit fraud.
A claimant can rightfully get #PIP and apply for a Motability car but abuse occurs if the carer or family member does not use the car for the benefit of the claimant. For example, a family member is using the Motability car for commuting every day leaving the claimant without transport.
Indeed, but that seems to be the simile being used.... miss-use by a relative = fraud... not in any way saying I agree with such an assertion
@ChrisMayLA6 That's less than 1%, hardly ridiculous unsustainable levels of fraud. Now talk about tax evasion, misuse of funds, what's the percentages there?
Yup, my implied point, exactly!
@ChrisMayLA6 I'd question whether the removal of those 5,300 users was actually for what any non-disabled person would recognise as miss-use.
I had a friend who's mother had such a car. She was threatened with having her car removed if she did too many miles. Essentially, she was a prisoner in her own home if she'd had to attend too many medical appointments that month.
This keeps the re-sale value of the cars higher for the scheme operator. They're the real miss-users.
Aha, well that is, of course, not how it was presented to the FT.... thanks for this context (boosted)
@ChrisMayLA6 I knew it was a major purchaser of cars-just not that many. that actually makes it something whose contributions to the national vehicle fleet could be taken advantage of to accelerate a move to electric vehicles.
What about restricting mobility leases to PHEV and BEV cars? It'd increase adoption, and with a predictable purchase volume make it easier to justify investment in AC and DC charger infrastructure.