Who can use the Motability Scheme?
Scheme is open to anyone who receives one of the following benefits, and has at least months' award length remaining when they apply
- Higher Rate Motility Component of Disability Living Allowance
- War Pensioners' Mobility Supplement.
No waiting lists, credit checks or medical assessments are required. You don't need to drive but can nominate up to two friends or relatives as drivers instead. Parents and carers can also apply on behalf of a child.
Financial assistance
Motability may be able to offer customers financial help towards meeting their mobility needs, for example, towards the cost of the advance payment for a suitable car, adaptations, driving lessons or a wheelchair accessible vehicle.
How the Motability Scheme works
By far the most popular option, chosen by over 90% of our customers, is the contract hire of a new car.
Customers enjoy affordable, convenient, trouble-free motoring; choosing a brand new car every three years with insurance, servicing, tyres and breakdown cover all included.
A wide range of adaptations, e.g. hand controls and wheelchair accessible vehicles, are also available on the Contract Hire Scheme.
A similar contract hire scheme also exists on the Powered Wheelchair and Scooter Scheme.
Alternatively, there are also Hire Purchase Schemes available for both cars and powered wheelchairs or scooters for customers who want to own the car, wheelchair or scooter at the end of the agreement.
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Motability information
Motability is a national charity, set up on the initiative of the Government in 1977, to assist disabled people with their mobility needs. They direct and oversee the Motability Scheme which enables disabled people to obtain a car, powered wheelchair or scooter simply by using their government-funded mobility allowances.
In the UK, over 1.7 million disabled people qualify for the Higher Rate Mobility Component of Disability Living Allowance and over 16,000 qualify for the War Pensioners' Mobility Supplement. What a disabled person chooses to do with that money is entirely up to them.
Currently, some 430,000 disabled people have chosen to have their allowances paid to the Scheme to meet the cost of having a car, powered wheelchair or scooter through contract hire or hire purchase schemes. Motability, the charity (registered charity n 299745), has overall responsibility for the Motability Scheme:
- Motability direct and oversee the scheme.
- The raise funds to provide financial help to customers who would otherwise be unable to afford the type of car and any adaptations that they need.
- They provide Technical Services to customers and the adaptation of convension industry.
The Motability Car Schemes are adminstered on a contract basis by Motability Operations, a not-for-profit private company owned by the major banks.
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