Personal Independence Payment (PIP) rates 2026/27

What is PIP?

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) helps with the extra costs of a long-term physical or mental health condition or disability, if you're between 16 and State Pension age when you claim.

PIP isn't means-tested, so your income, savings and whether you work don't affect it. It's also tax-free. What matters is how your condition affects your daily life and getting around. You need to have had those difficulties for at least 3 months and expect them to last at least another 9.

How PIP rates work

PIP has two parts, called components:

• Daily living, for help with things like preparing food, washing, dressing, managing medication, communicating and handling money.
• Mobility, for help planning and following journeys and physically moving around.

Each component is paid at a standard or enhanced rate, depending on your points. You need 8 points for the standard rate and 12 for the enhanced rate. You might get one component, both or neither.

Daily living rates 2026/27

Daily living is scored across 10 activities. The points from each activity are added together, but only the highest-scoring statement that applies to you counts within each activity.

Mobility rates 2026/27

Mobility is scored across 2 activities: planning and following journeys, and moving around. The enhanced mobility rate can also let you lease a car, scooter or powered wheelchair through the Motability Scheme.

The most and least you can get

How much is PIP per month?

PIP is worked out weekly and paid every 4 weeks, so there's no official monthly rate. Averaged over a year (52 weeks divided by 12 months), it comes to:

Because you're paid every 4 weeks rather than monthly, you get 13 payments a year, so once a year two payments land in the same calendar month.

The April 2026 increase

PIP rates went up by 3.8% from April 2026, in line with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) for September 2025. If you already get PIP, the increase was applied automatically.

On the maximum award that's +£7.15 a week, or about £371.80 over the year.

Previous PIP rates (2023 to 2026)

PIP rates go up every April. These are the weekly rates for recent years, useful if you're checking back pay or an old award letter.

Each year's rates apply from the first payment after the uprating date in April.

Scotland and Northern Ireland

• England and Wales: PIP is run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
• Northern Ireland: PIP is run by the Department for Communities. The rates are the same.
• Scotland: PIP has been replaced by Adult Disability Payment (ADP), run by Social Security Scotland. ADP is paid at the same rates as PIP, but you apply to Social Security Scotland instead.

How your rate is decided

Your rate depends on points scored across 12 activities, using descriptors set out in law:

A statement applies if it's true for you on more than half of days. You can only be treated as able to do an activity if you can do it safely, to an acceptable standard, repeatedly and in a reasonable time. See PIP points explained for every descriptor and its points.

Mental health and PIP

The rates are the same whether your condition is physical, mental or both. What counts is the impact. For example, if anxiety means you can't go on any journey without overwhelming distress, that can score 10 points for planning and following journeys. If depression means you need prompting to wash, eat or take medication, those activities can score too.

Explain the real effect in detail: what happens, how often, and who helps you.

PIP payment dates

PIP is usually paid every 4 weeks, in arrears, straight into your bank, building society or credit union account. Depending on your award, that's between £121.20 and £778.40 each time.

• Your payment day is shown on your award letter, and it's normally the same day of the week each time.
• Bank holidays: if your payment is due on a bank holiday, you'll usually be paid on the working day before.
• Christmas and New Year: payments due over the holidays are usually paid early. Plan for the longer gap before the next one.
• Your first payment includes back pay to the start of your claim (see below).

If a payment doesn't arrive, check your bank first, then call the PIP enquiry line on 0800 121 4433 (textphone 0800 121 4493).

PIP back pay

PIP is usually paid from the date you started your claim, not the date of the decision, so your first payment includes back pay for the weeks in between. Work out how much with our PIP back pay calculator, which uses the right rates for each year.

PIP and other benefits

• It doesn't reduce other benefits. PIP isn't counted as income for Universal Credit or most other benefits.
• It can unlock extra help. Getting PIP means you’re exempt from the benefit cap, and the daily living component can mean extra amounts in some means-tested benefits.
• Carer's Allowance. Someone who cares for you for 35 hours or more a week may be able to claim Carer's Allowance if you get the daily living component.
• Motability and the Blue Badge. The enhanced mobility rate can qualify you for the Motability Scheme, and certain mobility scores can help you get a Blue Badge.

How to claim

To start a new claim in England or Wales, call the PIP new claims line on 0800 917 2222 (textphone 0800 917 7777). In Northern Ireland, call 0800 012 1573. Your claim is usually backdated to the date of your call.

You'll then be sent the "How your disability affects you" form. That's the part most people find hardest, and it's where we can help.