PIP was launched in 2013 to exchange Incapacity Residing Allowance for individuals of working age to assist with additional residing prices brought on by long-term disabilities or in poor health well being.
How a lot individuals are given relies on how troublesome they discover on a regular basis duties and getting round. The utmost weekly cost is £184.30.
You’ll be able to declare PIP whether or not you’ve gotten a job or not.
The latest statistics, exterior say greater than 3.3 million individuals in Britain obtain PIP to assist with the additional price of residing with a well being situation or incapacity. Some claimants are of retirement age however are eligible as a result of they obtained assist once they had been of working age.
The money can be utilized for issues like particular diets, extra laundry, accessible transport and better insurance coverage prices.
The federal government says spending on PIP is anticipated to develop by 52% from 2023/24 to £32.8bn by 2027/28.
The variety of month-to-month new claimants in England and Wales, the place the principle situation was anxiousness and despair, grew from a mean of two,200 a month in 2019 to five,300 a month final 12 months.
And the federal government says the rise to the advantages invoice is “unsustainable”.
In Scotland, PIP is being changed with Grownup Incapacity Fee, exterior.
Paul Harris, from Barnard Fort, will get £72.65 per week in PIP funds to assist with additional prices related together with his anxiousness and despair – reminiscent of for specialist remedy apps and counselling.
