After april it will be over £300 a month £307.72 x 36 is £11,078.26 that’s how much someone on pip or dla will pay before any Ap is taken into account from april for the next 3 years. The new car payment is covered by the extra over the norm in the rise from the allowance and hense why it starts in spring, not now.
What is clear is the allowance is not keeping up with prices of new cars and hasn’t for some time and many just cannot afford the huge ap’s so what is left often is unsuitable for some, for a multitude of reasons.
It’s good to see more cars coming back to the scheme, but some are at to high an ap for many to afford and some are just certain trims or engines and others just in manuals.
Some ap’s have now been increased to a high of £7999 what happened to the cap we had beforehand, it’s been removed.
Over 3 years that £7799 ap is another £222.19 on top a month. combined that’s £529.91 a month and £19,076.76 over 3 years.
Personally I would never spend that much to lease a car and it’s only going to get the media in a frenzy as it has before. Some are even saying they been told they cannot even apply for a grant as mb are cutting back.