I just don’t understand the problem and the obsession with Motability, no one is holding a gun to your head, you are free chose how to use your allowance, the majority of us are quite happy with the scheme.
The problem isn’t the scheme. However, the perception when disabled people are required to pay increasing APs for business reasons beyond Motability’s control but the profits hit £1 BILLION and the boss gets huge bonuses. That money comes from the pockets of the disabled people and the taxpayer. Regardless of whether I was on scheme or not I’d be outraged at £1 billion being taken out of the economy, especially paid for out of the government budgets, at the same time as public services are facing strike action for pay. That profit margin would go a long way to aiding problems that the current government can’t (or won’t) find the money to solve. To put it in full context the NHS was given and addition £500Million or HALF A BILLION to solve the problems it’s facing. If payments to Motability were reduced, or profits returned to public coffers, that payment could have been twice as much.
Any private company is perfectly entitled to make a profit, however, when they take money from the public purse, the public have a right to know that money is well spent and profits are not excessive. £1Bn is excessive, it’s getting on for Microsoft or Amazon type amounts, not a single country’s disability mobility company’s level of acceptable profit.
I think that the scheme does a brilliant job, provides reliable transportation to people who would have had a cheap, unreliable and potentially hazardous vehicle with the option to have something suitable that is fully maintained for them. That’s fantastic. What’s less so, and the reason behind this post, is people making large amounts of money from this organisation.
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Mark