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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
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 1976.
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I've asked someone who is a benefits expert, he said that whilst it had some strange rules, such as being required to have 'enhanced facility for locomotion', it was never means tested.