PIP is run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and gives profitable claimants as much as £748 a month.

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) has two parts a every day residing half and a mobility half.

‌The every day residing half is for individuals who need assistance with on a regular basis duties, and the mobility half is for individuals who need assistance shifting round.

Each comes with two charges: a regular charge and an enhanced charge.

The quantity somebody will get is dependent upon their particular person circumstances, and the way troublesome they discover sure duties.

Britons can apply for the profit even when they’re working, have financial savings, or are already receiving different advantages.

The commonplace and enhanced fee charges are as follows:

Daily residing duties

• Standard charge - £68.10 per week (up from £61.85)
• Enhanced charge - £101.75 per week (up from £92.40).

Mobility duties

• Standard charge - £26.90 per week (up from £24.45)
• Enhanced charge - £71 per week (up from £64.50).

‌The enhanced charge of the mobility part additionally provides folks the choice of getting a Motability car as an alternative of money.

The adjustments imply these entitled to the total charge can now obtain as much as £172.75 per week, which interprets to round £748.58 a month, up from £156.90.

An individual has to anticipate their situation to have an effect on them for a minimum of 12 months from when it began to qualify for the help.

They additionally need to be affected by it in finishing up every day duties or in getting round. An applicant might have to have an evaluation to find out what stage of help they want.

‌There are greater than 540 circumstances that may qualify an individual to obtain the profit.

Figures from a Benefits and Work research discovered these circumstances are ‘extremely likely’ to get an award:

• Dementia - 94.1 p.c
• Motor neurone illness - 97.5 p.c
• Down’s syndrome - 99.6 p.c
• Creutzfeldt Jacob illness CJD) - one hundred pc.

The mostly recorded disabling circumstances included:

• Psychiatric problems - together with anxiousness, stress and OCD - 37 p.c of claims
• Musculoskeletal illness (normal) - together with joint ache or arthritic circumstances - 20 p.c of claims
• Neurological illness - together with epilepsy or a number of sclerosis - 13 p.c of claims
• Musculoskeletal illness (regional) - together with circumstances affecting the neck, again or wrists - 12 p.c of claims
• Respiratory illness - together with bronchial asthma and pulmonary fibrosis - 4
• From sleep apnoea and cystic fibrosis to extreme bronchial asthma, the 24 respiratory circumstances that folks declare PIP for embrace:
• Sleep apnoea - obstructive
• Upper respiratory tract - different illnesses of/kind not identified
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary illness
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary illness (COPD)
• Chronic bronchitis
• Cystic fibrosis
• Emphysema
• Empyema
• Bronchiectasis
• Asthma
• Asbestosis
• Extrinsic allergic alveolitis
• Fibrosing alveolitis
• Sarcoidosis
• Silicosis
• Granulomatous lung illness and pulmonary infiltration
• Pulmonary fibrosis - different/kind not identified
• Pneumoconiosis
• Pulmonary fibrosis
• Pleura
• Pleural effusion
• Pneumothorax
• Pulmonary embolus
• Pneumonia
• Lung transplantation
• Heart and lung transplantation.

As nicely as this month-to-month fee, Britons claiming sure incapacity advantages corresponding to PIP are as a consequence of obtain a £150 price of residing fee.

‌The fee types a part of a £26billion help package deal to assist weak Britons with rising price pressures, as inflation persists at a excessive 8.7 p.c.

‌To qualify for this yr’s fee, folks will need to have acquired a fee (or later obtain a fee) on April 1, 2023.