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Matthew Evans & Nathan Bevan & Ellie Kendall

DWP: PIP monthly payments of £627 a month if you have one of 70 conditions

Some three million people in the UK could be eligible for monthly payments from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The new Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is available to those who suffer from one of 70 long-term medical conditions.

A disability benefit payment offered by the DWP, a successful claim for PIP is worth between £24.45 and £156.90 each week in additional financial support. What's more, as the benefit is paid every four weeks, this amounts to between £97.80 and £627.60 each payment period, with 403,469 people already receiving support through PIP for 70 neurological conditions.

The payments have been described by Citizens Advice as "extra money to help you with everyday life if you have an illness, disability or mental health condition", WalesOnline reports. Below is a list of all of the conditions for which you could receive these DWP payments...

Read more: DWP claimants could get up to £8,983 tax-free this year, full list of increases

People between the ages of 16 and State Pension age

If you're over the age of 16 and under State Pension age, PIP and Adult Disability Payments are benefits for working adults who need extra help because of an illness, mental health condition or disability. These are the PIP payment rates up until April 2023:

Daily Living Component

  • Enhanced: £92.40
  • Standard: £61.85

Mobility Component

  • Enhanced: £64.50
  • Standard: £24.45

People who have reached State Pension age

People of State Pension age or over are also receiving support for a neurological condition through Attendance Allowance. The most recent data shows that 28,029 older people across Great Britain are getting financial support of either £61.85 or £92.40 each week from the DWP, depending on the level of support needed during the day or night.

Attendance Allowance helps with extra costs if you have a physical or mental health condition, disability, or illness severe enough that makes it hard for you to look after yourself, but it does not cover mobility needs. You do not need to have someone caring for you in order to make a claim, Devon Live reports.

Neurological conditions supported through PIP, ADP and Attendance Allowance

This is the list of 70 neurological conditions being supported through PIP, ADP or Attendance Allowance. A claimant’s main disabling or medical condition is recorded during their assessment. The categories and groupings are based on DWP data.

Cerebrovascular disease

  • Cerebrovascular accident (stroke)
  • Cerebrovascular disease - Other / type not known
  • Transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs)

Epilepsy

  • Cataplexy
  • Generalised seizures (with status epilepticus in last 12 months)
  • Generalised seizures (without status epilepticus in last 12 months)
  • Narcolepsy
  • Partial seizures (with status epilepticus in last 12 months)
  • Partial seizures (without status epilepticus in last 12 months)
  • Seizures - unclassified

Non epileptic disturbance of consciousness

  • Disturbances of consciousness - Non-epileptic - Other / type not known
  • Drop attacks
  • Non epileptic Attack disorder (pseudoseizures)
  • Stokes Adams attacks (cardiovascular syncope)
  • Syncope - Other / type not known

Movement disorders

  • Blepharospasm
  • Essential tremor - benign
  • Huntington's disease
  • Movement disorders - Other / type not known
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Parkinson's syndrome / Parkinsonism
  • Torticollis
  • Tourette's syndrome
  • Writer's cramp

Multiple sclerosis

Benign tumours

  • Neurofibromatosis
  • Tumours - benign - Other / type not known

Hydrocephalus

Headache

  • Dizziness - cause not specified
  • Headache - Other causes of / cause not known
  • Migraine

Head injury

  • Head injury - Cognitive and sensorimotor impairment
  • Head injury - Cognitive impairment
  • Head injury - Sensorimotor impairment

Spinal cord compression

  • Paraplegia (traumatic)
  • Spinal cord compression - Other causes of / cause not known
  • Syringomyelia / Syringobulbia
  • Tetraplegia (traumatic)

Degenerative neuronal diseases

  • Degenerative neuronal diseases - Other / type not known
  • Motor neurone disease

Cerebral palsy

  • Cerebral palsy - Ataxic
  • Cerebral palsy - Athetoid
  • Cerebral palsy - Diplegic
  • Cerebral palsy - Hemiplegic
  • Cerebral palsy - Other / type not known
  • Cerebral palsy - Quadriplegic

Spina bifida

Ataxia

  • Ataxia - Friedrich's
  • Ataxias - Other / type not known

Neuropathy

  • Charcot Marie Tooth disease
  • Diabetic neuropathy
  • Guillain Barre syndrome
  • Neuropathies - Other / type not known including peripheral

Peripheral nerve injury

  • Brachial plexus
  • Peripheral nerve injury - Other / type not known

Disease of muscle

  • Dermatomyositis
  • Dystrophia myotonica
  • Muscle - Other diseases of / type not known
  • Myasthenia gravis
  • Polymyositis

Muscular dystrophy

  • Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy
  • Muscular dystrophy - Becker type
  • Muscular dystrophy - Duchenne
  • Muscular dystrophy - limb girdle
  • Muscular dystrophy - Other / type not known

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