How is Personal Independence Payment (PIP) awarded?

PIP is awarded based on how your health condition or disability affects your ability to carry out everyday activities and get around. 

To decide whether you're entitled to PIP, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) looks at how you manage a range of activities and how much difficulty you have with them. Each activity has different criteria and can score a certain number of points.

There are two parts to PIP:

• Daily living – activities such as preparing food, washing, dressing and communicating.
• Mobility – planning journeys and moving around.

This guide covers all of the activities used to award PIP - continue to the next pages for find out more about each one.

Check what PIP award you're likely to get

Turn2us PIP Helper can take you through the same daily living and mobility activities used in the PIP assessment. You’ll answer questions about how your condition affects you, and we'll estimate:

• how many points you're likely to score
• whether you're likely to qualify for PIP
• whether you're likely to receive the standard or enhanced rate

Use the Turn2us PIP Helper

How the DWP decides your PIP award

The DWP considers:

• your PIP claim form
• any supporting documents you sent with your claim
• the health professional's report from your health assessment

The points you score for each activity are added together to work out whether you qualify for PIP.

Daily living component

Mobility component