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Checking your eligibility
Checking your eligibility
If you would like help to check that you meet the Scheme eligibility requirements, you should contact one of the following agencies:
  • Department for Work and Pensions
0845 712 3456
(for Disability Living Allowance)
or visit
the Directgov website
  • Veterans Agency
0800 169 2277
(for War Pensioners' Mobility Supplement)
or visit the
Veterans Agency Website
About Motability
Motability is a national charity, set up on the initiative of the Government in 1977, to assist disabled people with their mobility needs. Motability direct and oversee the Motability Scheme which enables disabled people to obtain a car 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 460,000 disabled people have chosen to have their allowances paid to the Scheme to meet the cost of having a car through contract hire or hire purchase schemes.

Motability, the charity (registered charity no: 299745), has overall responsibility for the Motability Scheme:

  • They direct and oversee the Scheme.
  • They raise funds to provide financial help to Scheme customers who would otherwise be unable to afford the type of car and any adaptations that they need.
  • They administer the Government's Specialised Vehicles Fund which provides financial assistance for customers who need to travel in their wheelchairs.
  • Full breakdown assistance from the RAC
  • We carry out technical evaluations of products and suppliers.
The Motability Car schemes are administered on a contract basis by Motability Operations, a not-for-profit private company owned by the major banks.

Since 1978, over 2 million cars, powered wheelchairs and scooters have been provided through the Motability Scheme. Today the Scheme purchases over 5% of all new cars, powered wheelchairs and scooters sold in the UK, via a national network of some 4,500 Motability dealers.

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Are you eligible for a Motability car?
To use any of the Motability schemes, you must be receiving one of the following benefits:
  • Higher Rate Mobility Component (HRMC) of the Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
or
  • War Pensioners' Mobility Supplement (WPMS)
Please note: If you choose a contract hire car package you must have at least 12 months' award length remaining. For customers choosing to buy a car with a hire purchase agreement, it is normally expected that you will be receiving the allowance for the full length of the agreement.

Plus...

What's more, with the contract hire package you don't need to drive. You can nominate up to two drivers who may be friends or relatives, and parents or carers can apply on behalf of a child aged three years and upwards.

No waiting lists. No credit checks. No assessments required.

Proposed drivers must not have any serious driving convictions, disqualifications, or endorsements within the last five years. There are also some restrictions on drivers under 25 and those with provisional licences.