Thanks for posting the articles in full. I still think that Motability are missing a trick and should adopt the two suggestions that I made in my last post in order to fend off a lot of the criticism. I don’t think that Andrew Millers response is robust enough. I was very surprised to read that they “take back thousands of cars every year due to abuse”. Clearly the level of benefit abuse and abuse of the scheme is at a level of magnitude that is well above what many of us thought.
I don’t think it’s necessarily benefit abuse. There’s instances of abuse of vulnerable individuals, like those gang members who ‘befriend’ a disabled person and effectively take control of their money and benefits including claiming a new car that they don’t have to pay for. There’s also instances of family members pushing the boundaries.
The big question is how to prevent it?
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Mark