Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is replacing Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for disabled people aged 16 to 64. PIP replaced DLA for new claimants from June 2013.

It is currently being rolled-out and the reassessment of existing claimants living in certain post codes started in October 2013 (see box page 51). DLA is a benefit for children and adults aged under the State Pension age who, because of disability or illness, need help with personal care or with mobility. PIP helps with some of the extra costs caused by ill-health or disability. According to the government, “it is based on how your condition affects you, not what condition you have.”