People living with health conditions such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, and pneumonia could be missing out on £156 a week.
Those who live with one or more of the 27 conditions listed below could be eligible for Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Birmingham Live reports.
A total of 2.9million people are claiming the support, according to the latest from the DWP. However, thousands could be missing out.
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If your condition obstructs your daily life, you could be owed cash. To be eligible for PIP, you must have a health condition or disability where you have had difficulties with daily living or getting around (or both) for three months and expect these difficulties to continue for at least nine months.
You can make a new claim by contacting the DWP, you will find all the information you need to apply on the GOV.UK website here.
- Sleep apnoea - obstructive
- Upper respiratory tract - Other diseases of / type not known
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Chronic bronchitis
- Emphysema
- Bronchiectasis
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Asthma
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Extrinsic allergic alveolitis
- Fibrosing alveolitis
- Pulmonary fibrosis - Other / type not known
- Pneumoconiosis
- Asbestosis
- Pneumoconiosis
- Silicosis
- Granulomatous lung disease and pulmonary infiltration
- Sarcoidosis
- Empyema
- Pleura
- Pleural effusion
- Pneumothorax
- Lung transplantation
- Heart and lung transplantation
- Pulmonary embolus
- Pneumonia
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