August 3, 2020 at 6:18 pm
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However Motability has won the contract to be the accredited provider of the vehicles under the new Scottish scheme:
https://www.gov.scot/news/vehicles-to-meet-disabled-peoples-needs/
and as the Scottish allowances are the same monetary amount as PIP/DLA Mobility, it will more or less carry on as now no doubt.
I have it on very good authority that he Scottish government originally ‘forgot’ that veterans allowances (WPMS) was both higher in value and paid by the UK Government, so veterans in Scotland were initially excluded form getting a vehicle until the error was pointed out.
In the end it was probably easier for the Scottish government just to accredit Motability as the provider and carry on as normal.