If you receive any disability benefits, you will get more money from April this year, the Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said in his Autumn Statement that all DWP and HMRC benefits would get a 10.1% rise in the next financial year, based on the September 2022 rate of inflation. This includes disability benefits such as the Personal Independence Payment (PIP), which is claimed by three million people to help with the extra costs of physical and mental health conditions.
PIP is intended as the eventual replacement for Disability Living Allowance (DLA) but currently there are still 1.2 million people on that older benefit. Both have been replaced by new Adult Disability Payment and Child Disability Payment in Scotland.
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Another 1.5 million people get Attendance Allowance, which helps with extra costs if you have reached State Pension age and have a disability that's severe enough to need someone to help look after you, reports Birmingham Live. In addition, 1.3 million people claim Carer's Allowance for looking after someone who is on a disability benefit.
Here is a look at how all these and other disability payments will change from April 2023. All are weekly rates unless otherwise stated.
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) / Adult Disability Payment in Scotland
Daily living component
- Enhanced - increasing from £92.40 to £101.75
- Standard - increasing from £61.85 to £68.10
Mobility component
- Enhanced - increasing from £64.50 to £71
- Standard - increasing from £24.45 to £26.90
Claimants are assessed for what level of PIP they receive. If an application is successful, the lowest amount is £24.45 a week for standard mobility (going up to £26.90 from April) and the highest is £156.90 a week for both enhanced rates combined, which will rise to £172.75 a week from April. PIP is actually paid every four weeks so that's a rise from £627.60 to £691 a month. The same applies to the new Adult Disability Payment in Scotland.
Disability Living Allowance / Child Disability Payment in Scotland
Care Component
- Highest - increasing from £92.40 to £101.75
- Middle - increasing from £61.85 to £68.10
- Lowest - increasing from £24.45 to £26.90
Mobility Component
- Higher - increasing from £64.50 to £71
- Lower - increasing from £24.45 to £26.90
Attendance Allowance
- Higher rate - increasing from £92.40 to £101.75
- Lower rate - increasing from £61.85 to £68.10
Carer's Allowance
- Increasing from £69.70 to £76.75
Incapacity Benefit
- Long-term Incapacity Benefit - increasing from £118.25 to £130.20
- Short-term Incapacity Benefit (under state pension age) - lower rate increasing from £89.25 to £98.25, higher rate increasing from £105.55 116.20
- Short-term Incapacity Benefit (over state pension age) - lower rate increasing from £113.45 to £124.90, higher rate increasing from £118.25 to £130.20
- Increase of Long-term Incapacity Benefit for age - lower rate increasing from £6.95 to £7.65, higher rate increasing from £12.55 to £13.80
- Invalidity Allowance (Transitional) - lower rate increasing from £6.95 to £7.65, middle rate increasing from £6.95 to £7.65, higher rate increasing from £12.55 to £13.80
Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
Standard rate for assessed level of disablement
- 100% disablement - increasing from £188.60 to £207.60
- 90% disablement - increasing from £169.74 to £186.84
- 80% disablement - increasing from £150.88 to £166.08
- 70% disablement - increasing from £132.02 to £145.32
- 60% disablement - increasing from £113.16 to £124.56
- 50% disablement - increasing from £94.30 to £103.80
- 40% disablement - increasing from £75.44 to £83.04
- 30% disablement - increasing from £56.58 to £62.28
- 20% disablement - increasing from £37.72 to £41.52
Maximum life gratuity (lump sum)
- Increasing from £12,520 to £13,780
Unemployability Supplement
- Increasing from £116.60 to £128.40
Increase for early incapacity
- Lower rate - increasing from £7.75 to £8.55
- Middle rate - increasing from £15.50 to £17.10
- Higher rate increasing from £24.15 to £26.60
Maximum reduced earnings allowance
- Increasing from £75.44 to £83.04
Maximum retirement allowance
- Increasing from £18.86 to £20.76
Constant attendance allowance
- exceptional rate - increasing from £151 to £166.20
- intermediate rate - increasing from £113.25 to £124.65
- normal maximum rate - increasing from £75.50 to £83.10
- part-time rate - increasing from £37.75 to £41.55
Exceptionally severe disablement allowance
- Increasing from £75.50 to £83.10
Severe Disablement Allowance
Basic rate
- Increasing from £83.75 to £92.20
Age-related addition (from Dec 90)
- Higher rate - increasing from £12.55 to £13.80
- Middle rate - increasing from £6.95 to £7.65
- Lower rate - increasing from £6.95 to £7.65
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