Who is eligible for PIP or ADP?

An individual must anticipate their situation to have an effect on them for at the very least a 12 months from once they began to be impacted.

An particular person might qualify if they've difficulties with any of those every day duties:

• Preparing, cooking or consuming meals
• Managing remedy
• Washing, bathing or utilizing the bathroom
• Dressing and undressing
• Engaging and speaking with different individuals
• Reading and understanding written info
• Making choices about cash
• Planning a journey or following a route
• Moving round.

There are greater than 500 circumstances that may qualify an individual to obtain PIP. These are the identical of the frequent kinds of circumstances which will qualify a person for the profit:

• Haematological Disease
• Infectious illness
• Malignant illness
• Metabolic illness
• Psychiatric problems
• Neurological illness
• Visual illness
• Hearing problems
• Cardiovascular illness
• Gastrointestinal illness
• Diseases of the liver, gallbladder, biliary tract
• Skin illness
• Musculoskeletal illness (normal)
• Musculoskeletal illness (regional)
• Autoimmune illness (connective tissue problems)
• Genitourinary illness
• Endocrine illness
• Respiratory illness
• Multisystem and extremes of age
• Diseases of the immune system.

How a lot is PIP?

PIP funds are made up of a every day dwelling half and a mobility half, with a decrease and better charge relying on the extent of assist an individual wants.

These are the present weekly charges:

Daily dwelling

• Standard charge: £68.10
• Enhanced charge: £101.75.

Mobility

• Standard charge: £26.90
• Enhanced charge: £71.00.

This means an individual who receives each increased charges would get round £691 a month, which on prime of the Universal Credit customary allowance could be over £1,000 for single claimants aged 25 or over, or for joint claimants.

These are the present month-to-month charges for the usual allowance

• Single below 25: £292.11
• Single 25 or over: £368.74
• Joint claimants each below 25: £458.51
• Joint claimants, one or each 25 or over: £578.82.

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