Just a quick thought. Is this legal? I always thought charities cannot just simply take away or reduce a service for disabled based on a “average” unless that charity is at risk of going insolvent. It stinks of indirect discrimination I’m no good at maths but is an average saying 50% of motability “customers” drive far more than 10,000 miles a year ? With the lease agreement of any other company extra mile fees are between 5p and 15p what information have they used to increase the cost to 25p Where are the sums? How much would it cost to keep the 20k allowance, and why does it even matter to reduce it? Apart from the value of the car at the end of the lease I can’t see why and if it’s a decision based on profit again is that lawful for a charity to do? We have made the easy decision to leave motability when our lease ends next year. As a disabled customer who works and needs that transport for both travelling to and from work as well as medical appointments and you know maybe daring to want to go out somewhere in-between for shock horror to have some fun, they will no longer get our business, maybe we will spend our PIP on tattoos, massive TVs and cigarettes But Rachel from accounts has bowed down to the multi millionaires tax dodging MPs of Reform.
I can’t answer all of that but here’s my thoughts:
1, The average is 7,500 miles a year, that means quite a few doing next to nothing and a few going over 20,000.
2, 25p excess miles is probably just a number plucked out of the air. They’ve taken 15p from commercial leases and added a number for insurance, maintenance and cover that Motability offer.
3, the sums are based on depreciation. They will have seen from experience how much they get for 20,000 cars and 7,500 ones. From that they’ll know just how much the new allowance should create to cover the VAT increase. Dealers on various Motability groups have said that this will more than cover the tax increases and they’re the ones buying our cars.
Yes, this was Labour running in fear of Reform’s popularity and what Tice & co was saying about the unjust ‘free cars’. It’s been left to us and a few pressure groups to put pressure on our MPs and ensuring they are aware of just how wrong these measures really are and how they severely impact our lives. They want us working but just prevented us using those cars to get to work, genius.
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