DWP list of freebies and discounts you can get worth up to £70,000 on PIP

There is simply a scope of freebies, discounts, and other enactment you assertion if you get Personal Independence Payment (PIP).

PIP is simply a disability benefit paid by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to radical with semipermanent health conditions oregon disabilities. It is not an retired of enactment payment and it's intended to assistance with the other costs radical tin look owed to their information - this means you tin assertion it whether you are moving oregon not.

PIP is made up of 2 components - a regular surviving complaint and a mobility complaint - and you tin beryllium entitled to some oregon conscionable 1 of these. These components are past divided again, into the modular complaint and the enhanced rate. Currently, the modular complaint for regular surviving sits astatine £72.65 and the enhanced is £108.55. For the mobility component, the modular complaint is £28.70 a week and the enhanced is £75.75.

Alongside the benefit, claimants tin besides assertion aggregate antithetic freebies and other enactment to assistance them with their regular lives. This tin see Blue Badges, capped h2o bills, and Council Tax discounts. Here we item conscionable immoderate of the freebies, discounts, and enactment you tin get.

Council taxation discounts - £2,171 mean

You mightiness besides beryllium capable to get a assembly taxation discount if you assertion the surviving oregon mobility portion of PIP. Again, you volition request to interaction your section authorization to find retired whether you could beryllium entitled to a discount. How overmuch you'll get disconnected wide depends connected what your idiosyncratic concern is and however overmuch PIP you're claiming - truthful it's champion to telephone up and person a chat.

If you’re classed arsenic "severely mentally impaired", you could beryllium eligible for a implicit exemption, meaning you’ll beryllium disregarded from paying immoderate assembly taxation astatine all. The mean Band D assembly taxation acceptable by section authorities successful England for the 2024/25 fiscal twelvemonth is £2,171 - meaning this overmuch could beryllium saved if you got a afloat discount.

Usually, you volition request to amusement your PIP grant missive to beryllium you are claiming the discount. You should interaction your section assembly for much accusation connected what discounts are available.

Blue badge - £3,800 mean

Blue Badges assistance radical with disabilities oregon wellness conditions parkland a car person to their destination and you tin usage your PIP grant missive to get one. Blue badge holders tin parkland connected azygous oregon treble lines for up to 3 hours arsenic agelong arsenic determination are nary loading oregon unloading restrictions. They tin besides get escaped oregon discounted on-street parking.

You tin use for Blue Badges from your section assembly and immoderate tin beryllium free, however, immoderate bash charge. The astir they tin complaint sits astatine £10.

To beryllium eligible, you’ll request to person a disablement that limits your question and quality to locomotion - you tin besides get 1 if you are registered blind. Other benefits which could get you a bluish badge include;

• Disability surviving allowance
• War Pensioners’ Mobility Supplement
• Lump sum outgo arsenic portion of the Armed Forces Compensation scheme

According to Just Park, Brits walk £3,800 connected parking connected mean each twelvemonth which means PIP claimants could beryllium redeeming this overmuch with their bluish badge.

Benefit boost - £7,334.40

People connected PIP tin besides assertion different DWP benefits alongside PIP and these benefits include:

• Housing Benefit
• Jobseeker’s Allowance
• Income Support
• Working Tax Credit
• Employment and Support Allowance - but lone if you get the PIP regular surviving component

• Pension Credit - but lone if you get the PIP regular surviving component

However, it's important to enactment that immoderate of these are "legacy" benefits, and you cannot marque a caller assertion for them. You tin lone get them if you are already claiming. So if you are claiming 1 of these benefits you could get a "disability premium" which is an other outgo connected apical to assistance with the outgo of your disability.

If eligible, you could get either:

• £39.85 a week for a azygous idiosyncratic (disability premium)
• £56.80 a week for a mates (disability premium)
• £76.40 a week for a azygous idiosyncratic (severe disablement premium)
• £152.80 a week if you’re successful a mates and are some eligible (severe disablement premium)
• £19.55 a week for a azygous idiosyncratic (enhanced disablement premium)
• £27.90 a week if you’re successful a mates and astatine slightest 1 of you is eligible (enhanced disablement premium)

This means the maximum amount, you could assertion could scope up to £7,945.60 a year. You tin find each the eligibility rules for disablement premiums connected the GOV.UK website here.

Capped h2o bills - £1,053

Some radical who assertion PIP tin eligible for assistance with paying their h2o bills done the WaterSure Scheme. They tin besides beryllium capped truthful you wage little than others successful your area.

To beryllium eligible, you'll request to devour - oregon idiosyncratic successful your household consumes - a batch of h2o owed to your aesculapian condition. Alongside this, you indispensable besides beryllium connected a h2o meter. Eligibility varies from h2o supplier to h2o supplier, truthful to get the help, you should get successful interaction with your supplier to spot if they’re offering immoderate support. You tin bash this done their website oregon online.

The magnitude you could prevention varies depending connected your supplier but according to Martin Lewis' Money Saving Expert (MSE), 1 idiosyncratic was refunded £1,053 done the scheme.

Vehicle taxation simplification - £1,177.50

If you're receiving the modular complaint mobility constituent of PIP you tin get a 50% simplification successful conveyance tax. You tin besides get 100% disconnected if you're connected the enhanced complaint mobility component. Vehicle taxation - besides known arsenic roadworthy taxation - is what you person to wage to usage your car connected the roads. To get the discount, the conveyance you're getting reduced taxation connected indispensable beryllium registered successful the disabled person's sanction oregon their nominated driver's name.

In immoderate cases, conveyance taxation tin deed prices of arsenic precocious arsenic £2,355 a year, though successful immoderate cases, it is overmuch lower. So the simplification could beryllium arsenic overmuch arsenic £1,177.50 for immoderate PIP claimants.

You tin assertion this discount erstwhile applying for conveyance taxation and the conveyance needs to beryllium registered successful your name. If you're applying for the archetypal time, you should beryllium capable to bash it astatine your section Post Office branch. To find your nearest branch, you tin spell to the Post Office's website and usage its subdivision finder.

Motability Scheme - £23,760

If you’ve been awarded the enhanced complaint of the mobility constituent of PIP and person 12 months oregon much remaining connected your existent allowance, you could beryllium eligible to articulation the Motability Scheme. This is wherever you tin commercialized immoderate oregon each of your PIP net from this constituent towards the outgo of a brand-new car, wheelchair-accessible vehicle, scooter oregon powered wheelchair.

Through the scheme, you person implicit 2,000 cars to take from, with insurance, taxation and servicing each included. You tin look into the strategy and the enactment of the vehicles disposable done the Motability Scheme website. Car rental costs astir £66 a time connected mean successful London, which could typically magnitude to a whopping £23,760 implicit the twelvemonth - a sizeable redeeming if you request a vehicle.

Free prescriptions - £115.80

If you person a disablement that entitles you to PIP, you whitethorn beryllium capable to get escaped NHS prescriptions, though this is not ever guaranteed. Some aesculapian conditions and disabilities tin get you a Medical Exemption Certificate which allows you to get escaped prescriptions.

These are credit-card-size cards which you tin get aft speaking to your doc oregon GP. According to the NHS website, the conditions which are eligible for a aesculapian exemption paper include:

• a imperishable fistula (for example, caecostomy, colostomy, laryngostomy oregon ileostomy) which needs continuous surgical dressing oregon an appliance
• a signifier of hypoadrenalism (for example, Addison’s Disease) for which circumstantial substitution therapy is indispensable
• diabetes insipidus and different forms of hypopituitarism
• diabetes mellitus, but wherever attraction is by fare unsocial
• hypoparathyroidism
• myasthenia gravis
• myxoedema (that is, hypothyroidism which needs thyroid hormone replacement)
• epilepsy which needs continuous anticonvulsive therapy
• a continuing carnal disablement which means you cannot spell retired without the assistance of different idiosyncratic
• cancer and are undergoing attraction for either cancer, the effects of cancer, oregon the effects of crab treatment

Currently, a medicine complaint is £9.65 per prescriptions. So if you request to get 1 medicine per period you could extremity up spending £115.80 a twelvemonth connected your medications. So you could prevention this magnitude if you are eligible for the aesculapian exemption card.

Disabled person's railcard - £113

People who assertion PIP tin besides get a Disabled Person's Railcard. The railcard costs £20 per twelvemonth oregon £54 for 3 years and it gives you a 3rd disconnected obstruction travel. the mean yearly savings are astir £113 - but this volition beryllium connected however often you get the train.

According to National Rail, the yearly redeeming is based connected the mean savings made by Disabled Persons Railcard holders betwixt April 2023 and March 2024, excluding the terms of Railcard. You tin use for a railcard connected National Rail's website and you volition request to supply your PIP grant missive to get it.

Discounted days retired - £144

A fig of British attractions connection discounted prices to radical claiming PIP oregon who person a bluish badge. The National Trust and English Heritage connection escaped introduction to a idiosyncratic and their carer done the Essential Compassion Card.

An yearly walk for these sites usually sits astatine astir £72 a year, meaning you could prevention a combined £144 with your carer besides entering free. Discounts tin besides widen to cinema, theatre and creation assemblage visits. The disablement foundation scope has rounded up a afloat database of each the disposable discounts disabled Brits tin get astatine the moment. You tin find that here.

Disabled facilities assistance - £30,000

You tin use for a Disabled Facilities Grant if you're disabled and request to marque changes to your location to suit your needs. For example, you mightiness request to widen doors and instal ramps oregon rails. However, you request to beryllium assessed to cheque your eligibility for the support, truthful not everyone claiming PIP tin beryllium eligible.

You tin get antithetic amounts of wealth depending connected whether you unrecorded successful England, Wales oregon Northern Ireland. The grants are not disposable for households successful Scotland. If you unrecorded successful Wales you tin get up to £36,000 worthy of support, £30,000 successful England and up to £25,000 successful Northern Ireland. You tin use done your section assembly which indispensable springiness you a determination wrong six months.