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'Grossly overpaid' charity bosses should see salaries capped, says disability campaigner

Linda Burnip of Disabled People Against Cuts says donations should go to those who need them

“GROSSLY overpaid” charity bosses should have their salaries capped to ensure that money is spent on the people who need it, says leading disability campaigner Linda Burnip.

Two parliamentary committees have branded the £1.7 million pay packet for the boss of Motability Operations “totally unacceptable” and criticised the company, which supplies cars to people with disabilities, for hoarding £2.4 billion in cash reserves.

Motability chief executive officer Mike Betts was given a 78 per cent increase in his pay package over nine years, despite running a taxpayer-supported monopoly with zero competition.

The work and pensions and Treasury committees called for the National Audit Office to review the scheme.

Work and pensions committee chair Frank Field said that Motability “operates as a monopoly that faces no competition” and needs to “get a grip on itself and realise the privileged position in which it trades.”

Disabled People Against Cuts co-founder Ms Burnip said Motability was a “wonderful” scheme while criticising Mr Betts’s vast salary and bonuses.

She told the Star: “It seems an awful lot of money for someone to be paid when they have a captive audience.

“I think that most CEOs, both of Motability and most of the big disability charities, are grossly overpaid for what they do and there should be a cap maybe on what they earn.

“I’m sure there are lots of people who would do it for less. That money instead could go towards disabled people and help them getting vehicles.”

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