Labour Kicks Motability Scandal into Long Grass Despite Free Luxury Cars For ‘Tennis Elbow’ and ‘Dyslexia’ – Guido Fawkes

Labour Kicks Motability Scandal into Long Grass Despite Free Luxury Cars For ‘Tennis Elbow’ and ‘Dyslexia’

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Yesterday Guido revealed taxpayers are footing a £600 million bill for free cars for people with “food intolerance”, “stress”, “failure to thrive” and “tennis elbow”. There are currently 589,550 claimants on the Motability Scheme…

The story saw a lot of pick up in the media as people were outraged at these bogus benefit claims. As usual, Labour is doing nothing to solve this ongoing scandal…

In a debate on welfare reform in the House of Lords last night, Labour confirmed the now gutted welfare bill will not reform the Motability Scheme. Asked whether the Government will review the scheme, work and pensions minister Baroness Watkins said:

“On the Motability scheme, just for clarity, nothing in the proposals in the Bill now or in earlier incarnations affects the mobility element of PIP, only the daily living allowance, but I take her broader point and I will be happy to have a look at that.”

Kicking it into the long grass…