The #Motability scheme is facing major scrutiny. Between compulsory black boxes for drivers under 30 (impacting disabled people’s independence due to others' driving), slashed mileage caps, and rigid journey restrictions, users are worried. Is the scheme still serving those it’s meant to help? 🚗♿️

Motability drivers 'horrified' by compulsory black boxes The boxes will monitor driving habits, such as speed and braking, and will provide a weekly rating.

Interesting debate about those 'black box' trackers being fitted into all #Motability vehicles leased to drivers under the age of 30 | BBC News | 2 April 2026:
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I'm a young Motability driver - tracking our vehicles is completely unfair Sex Education star Keron Day is worried by the ‘black box’ monitoring tools made mandatory for disabled motorists under 30

#Motability

It’s discriminatory and outrageous that Motability ops are installing black boxes to Motability cars for disabled drivers under the age of 30

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Requiring "black boxes" on #Motability drivers is basically GPS tagging #disabled people. Not only is it a gross invasion of #privacy, it's basically assuming all disabled people are working in bad faith and are guilty... Of something.

Disgusting.

Motability drivers 'horrified' by compulsory black boxes The boxes will monitor driving habits, such as speed and braking, and will provide a weekly rating.

It's an inevitable consequence of the #disabilitytax, which #Motability are absorbing.
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#Motability
#disability
A scheme imposed upon a group of drivers who often have little or no other options - especially wheelchair accessible vehicles.
No such scheme imposed upon any other group of drivers.
A thinly disguised scheme to claw back money.
Shameful.

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Please read and sign petition to oppose these changes. #dwp #motability #send

Photo is of a blue Kia EV4 in the Air trim with a white Kia EV3 partially obscured on the left side of the EV4. Photo taken at Fiskens of Forfar by their staff

That's me finally ordered the #Kia #EV4 Air trim today, went for blue, the red was a bit too dark. Collection date is 30th June when my current #Motability lease comes to an end on my #Hyundai #Kona.

Looking forward to it!

If the Treasury capped the mileage and hiked fuel costs by 25p for the general population, there'd be an outrage, front page headlines and lorry strikes.

Yet this can be done to disabled people, in a #CostOfLiving and cost of fuel crisis, and Parliament stands back and lets this happen? #Motability

Actor says Motability’s ‘offensive’ black box scheme discriminates against young disabled people A disabled actor has accused the Motability scheme of putting young disabled people’s freedom at risk and taking away their choice and control by forcing them to sign up to an “offensive” new syste…

A disabled actor has accused the #Motability scheme of putting young disabled people’s freedom at risk and taking away their choice and control by forcing them to sign up to an “offensive” new system that monitors how they drive.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/actor-says-m...

#RachelReeves clearly detests the #disabled, she is attacking from every angle, she's added VAT to #Motability cars and insurance, as a result the mileage allowed has been halved, the AP has gone up massively on all but city cars which in the main are unsuitable. #bbcqt

Actor says Motability’s ‘offensive’ black box scheme discriminates against young disabled people A disabled actor has accused the Motability scheme of putting young disabled people’s freedom at risk and taking away their choice and control by forcing them to sign up to an “offensive” new syste…

Actor says Motability’s ‘offensive’ black box scheme discriminates against young disabled people
#Motability
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#RichardTice has said he'd scrap the #Motability scheme and slash #disabled disability benefits. He says he'd bring back the #Invacar so only those with obviously visible disabilities would use one. #Reform #bbcqt

Well done #Labour slow fucking clap 👏 👏 👏

#Disability
#Motability
#PunchingDown
#WelfareNotWarfare

Good to see #Poole #Labour MP @neilduncanjordan.bsky.social bringing the #Motability campaign to the fore alongside @transportforall.org.uk 👏👏

#Jenrick 🤡🤡🤡

Wants to abolish #motability cars.

So, if you get full mobility #DLA/PLP, you can swap that for a car, worth about the same.

If he does that and nothing else he saves £0 and the claimant uses the money to lease a car anyway.

So presumably he wants to kill DLA/PLP altogether.

#twat

From the proposed changes to #PIP, through the cuts to the #motability scheme, to the new #SEND restrictions, via the "overdiagnosis" lie/rhetoric, this government's hatred of #disabled people has always been openly on display.

If you vote #Labour, you are telling us a lot about your own hatred.

Peter Facenna in a blue‑and‑white checked shirt against a wooden plank background. To the right, a large quotation reads: “It is also important to recognise that the WAV element of the Motability Scheme cannot operate in isolation. For these vehicles to be available, affordable and sustainable, the wider Motability car scheme must function effectively. One does not work without the other.” Beneath this, the text states: “Peter Facenna ~ Managing Director, Allied Vehicles Group”. The Allied Vehicles logo appears at the bottom right with blue and yellow elements.

Allied Vehicles Managing Director, Peter Facenna, shares his thoughts on the importance of the Motability Scheme at a time when public debate around it is increasingly shaped by headlines rather than understanding.

More: ow.ly/OAmj50Y7FW9
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Motability - Motability is a scheme for disabled people in the UK to use their mobility allowance to pay for a car. But there are a few problems…

"Not only do I earn less money because I can’t easily work because of #MS, but I also need to be a magician to magic up the money needed every three years to be able to go places." shorturl.at/Qqo2f via @trippingtreacle.bsky.social

#ChronicIllness #ChronicallyIll #Disabilty #Motability

Picture shows a white car with a flat tyre. Attached to the tyre is a red tube connected to a white container containing what’s left of the repair glue. The white container is connected to a black electronic air pump. All over the ground, over the wheel and the visible surfaces of the car shows sighs of being sprayed with the repair liquid. The tyre is still flat.

Puncture repair kits instead of spare wheels?
Great in theory, in practice…. Not so much.
Mobile tyre call-out estimated time, two days!
Had lots to do over the next 48 hours, no it going anywhere now.
#Motability
#FlatTyre

People with PIP mobility award could see eligibility changes before end of this year A review of the full PIP assessment process will be completed by this Autumn.

DWP timeline for planned PIP changes for new and existing claimants PIP reforms have been put on hold until a comprehensive review of the benefit has been completed.

Black box / Drive Smart This form is ANONYMOUS. These questions are to gather concerns and any patterns that motability customers and extra drivers have around the black box (that motability insist on calling the drive sma...

I'm working on a blog post. I'm getting nowhere with #Motability and #DirectLine - thought to ask you guys your thoughts; answers will be anonymous. I would love to hear your thoughts, whether you have a drive smart / black box or not.
It'll be posted on Little Sea Bear ♿
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Full list of people on disability benefits eligible for the Motability Scheme Claimants in receipt of the higher rate of the mobility component may be eligible to join the scheme.

Please Don’t Make Us Drive These Again What the Motability Scheme changed — and why the Budget risks turning the clock back My driving life began in a three-wheeled blue “Noddy ...

A car can mean freedom. Or the difference between isolation and work. I’ve written about the Motability Scheme, why it worked, and why recent changes matter more than people think.
Read here: www.thefriendlytimes.co.uk/2025/12/plea...

#Disability #Motability #IndependentLiving #Access

People with PIP mobility award could see eligibility changes next year A review of the full PIP assessment process will be completed by Autumn next year.

Full list of Motability Scheme changes starting next year for all users Current leases will not be affected by the changes coming into effect on July 1, 2026.

#Tories vow to slam the brakes on Motability cars for PIP folks with ADHD, anxiety & mild depression - 39% of claimants could be grounded!
-> Who's next?
#PIPCuts #MentalHealthMatters #DisabilityRights #Motability

It then needs to go to the dealer in January due to another on going issue! Just bear in mind this car is only 3 years old! #motability

Disabled people are NOT given a FREE car to gain access to freedom. Thank you Joe Politics for highlighting this Conservative BS supported by the BBC again.
#motability #rightwinglies #torylies #bbcbias #joepolitics
Please share tf out of this.

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