Due to the cost of living crisis, a number of payments have been handed out in a bid to help people with the increasing costs.
One of these is the DWP benefits, which is set to rise by 10.1 per cent next year, which hopes to help those from the poorest households. The increase, which will come into effect next April, was confirmed by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in his recent Autumn Statement, after months of speculation.
However campaigners warned, according to Birmingham Live, that unless benefits were raised to match inflation, the worst-off families would be left facing a significant real-terms reduction in their benefit payments.
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One of the benefits that’s due to go up by 10.1 per cent is Personal Independence Payment - often shortened to PIP - which is claimed by around three million people living with disabilities and mental health conditions.
If you’re on PIP, here’s what you need to know about how much you’ll get in 2023-24.
What is PIP?
PIP is a disability benefit, introduced to replace Disability Living Allowance for most adult claimants. It supports people living with long-term physical or mental health conditions and disabilities with the increased costs they face as a result of their conditions.
There are two aspects of PIP: the daily living part and the mobility part. The daily living part helps claimants with the costs of everyday living tasks, and the mobility part helps people who have difficulty getting around because of their condition.
Who is eligible for PIP?
If you're aged 16 or over, have a long-term physical or mental condition or a disability, have difficulty performing everyday tasks or with mobility and expect these difficulties to last for at least 12 months from when they started, you may be able to claim PIP.
New PIP claimants will be subject to a DWP test to assess the effects their condition has on their ability to move around and perform ordinary tasks. Applicants will be scored according to their ability to perform tasks and this will be used to determine how much PIP they get.
PIP rates for 2023-24
PIP is one of the DWP benefits that will rise by 10.1% from April 2023. This increased rate will apply throughout the 2023-24 financial year, and the following weekly rates will apply:
Daily living part
Lower weekly rate - £68.10 (up from £61.85 per week currently)
Higher weekly rate - £101.75 (up from £92.40 per week currently)
Mobility part
Lower weekly rate - £26.90 (up from £24.45 per week currently)
Higher weekly rate - £71 (up from £64.50 per week currently)
That means anyone awarded both of the higher payments would get £172.75 a week, equivalent to £691 a month or £8,983 a year.
PIP claimants are also expected to be among those entitled to next year's £150 disability cost of living payment. This is part of a new series of cost of living payments due in 2023, which will also include a £900 payment for people on means-tested benefits and another £300 pensioner cost of living payment.
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