It's called Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and nearly three million people across the UK who suffer from a long-term health condition may be able to receive it. A disability benefit payment offered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), a successful claim for PIP is worth between £24.45 and £156.90 each week in additional financial support.
And as the benefit is paid every four weeks, this amounts to between £97.80 and £627.60 each payment period. There are now 403,469 people receiving support through PIP for 70 neurological conditions, 26,987 of whom are in Wales.
Designed to help with those higher living costs, it's described by Citizens Advice as "extra money to help you with everyday life if you've an illness, disability or mental health condition", reports NorthWalesLive. And below is a simplified guide to making a PIP claim, including components, rates and how the application is scored, which in turn determines the level of award a person receives. You can get more health news and other story updates straight to your inbox by subscribing to our newsletters here.
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People over 16 and under State Pension age
PIP and Adult Disability Payments are benefits for working adults who need extra help because of an illness, disability or mental health condition.
PIP payment rates 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.
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
Infections
- Creutzfeldt - Jacob disease (CJD)
- Infections - Other
- Poliomyelitis and post polio syndrome
- Prion diseases - Other / type not known
Other neurological disorders
- Neurological disorders - Other / type not known
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