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RichardCoulter · 08-03-2019, 15:12

Pretty sure that's incorrect info on that site, or perhaps it's referring to the Motability scheme and has been transposed??

AFAIK, the principle has always been to make disability benefits tax free and not to be counted as income when calculating other benefits, so as to ensure that disabled people benefited from the extra help in full. I've never known it to be means tested.

I'll ask someone who will know, it would be interesting to find out if it was actually means tested when it started in the 1976.

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RichardCoulter cf.mega poster Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 10,719	Re: The state benefits system mega-thread. Pretty sure that's incorrect info on that site, or perhaps it's referring to the Motability scheme and has been transposed?? AFAIK, the principle has always been to make disability benefits tax free and not to be counted as income when calculating other benefits, so as to ensure that disabled people benefited from the extra help in full. I've never known it to be means tested. I'll ask someone who will know, it would be interesting to find out if it was actually means tested when it started in the 1976. Last edited by RichardCoulter; 08-03-2019 at 15:17.