The Motorbility Scheme
The Motorbility Scheme: options for buying or hiring a car
Buying and adapting a car can be expensive. The Motorbility Scheme - run
by the independent not-for-profit organisation Motorbility - gives disabled
people the opportunity to own or lease a car at an affordable price.
The Motorbility Scheme can help you with leasing or buying a car if you're
getting the War Pensioners' Mobility Supplement or the higher rate of the
mobility component of Disability Living Allowance (DLA). Even if you don't
drive, you can apply for a car as a passenger and propose two other people
as your drivers.
You can also apply for a car on behalf of a child aged three or over, who
is entitled to the mobility component of Disability Living Allowance.
Contract hire
Through the contract hire scheme you can lease a new car supplied by a motorbility
Accredited dealer for at least three years. Comprehensive insurance, routine
servicing and breakdown assistance are included. You will need to pay for
the fitting and removal of any adaptations.
You can apply if you have 12 months or more of your Disability Living Allowance
'award' remaining. If your award is not renewed during the full length of
your chosen scheme, your car will need to be returned.
At the end of the period, the car is returned to Motorbility Operations who
operate the car schemes under contract to motorbility.
Hire purchase
Hire purchase enables you to buy the car you want and this can be a new
or used car. You are responsible for negotiating the purchase price of the
car with the dealer and arranging insurance cover. At the end of the hire
purchase agreement - which can be between two to five years - you will own
the car.
Powered wheelchairs or scooters
Motorbility also offers a hire purchase scheme for powered wheelchairs or
scooters.
Financial help and VAT relief
If money is a problem when financing the car or adaptations, motorbility
may be able to provide a grant through their own charitable fund or the
Specialised Vehicle Funds, which they administer for the government.
Disabled people don't have to pay VAT on the cost of hiring a car through
the Motorbility Scheme. The cost of any work involved in adapting a vehicle
for a disabled person is also eligible for VAT relief.
Visit the Motorbility Scheme website
To find out more about the Motorbility Scheme, contact Motorbility on the
numbers below, or visit their website.
Telephone: 0845 4564 566
Textphone: 01279 632 273
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