PIP alert as Brits urged to check if they can backdate benefits

Personal Independence Payment is simply a payment designed to assistance radical implicit the property of 16 and under. (Image: Getty)

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is simply a payment paid to radical implicit the property of 16 and nether the State Pension property with the other regular costs of surviving for much than 530 wellness conditions oregon disabilities, which whitethorn beryllium physical, sensory, mental, intelligence oregon cognitive, oregon immoderate operation of these.

The latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) amusement that 3.6 cardinal radical crossed England, Scotland, and Wales were receiving PIP astatine the extremity of October 2024.

PIPs are worthy betwixt £26.90 and £101.75 each, and a assertion whitethorn springiness entree to different means-tested benefits adjacent if they person antecedently been told they are not eligible.

According to guidance successful the PIP Handbook, it whitethorn besides beryllium imaginable to backdate definite benefits to the commencement of their PIP award.

An entitlement to PIP provides a gateway oregon passport to different benefits, specified arsenic Carer’s Allowance, and schemes sponsored by different departments, specified arsenic the Blue Badge.

The guidance explains that galore benefits and schemes person further qualifying conditions, but for some, including the Blue Badge, determination are alternate ways of accessing the payment that bash not trust connected a peculiar complaint oregon constituent of PIP.

DWP added that successful astir cases, claimants indispensable usage their PIP grant missive arsenic impervious of entitlement. The guidance besides states that carers whitethorn beryllium capable to assertion Income Support (including for up to 26 weeks portion the PIP assertion is being assessed), and galore carers whitethorn proceed claiming Income Support aft PIP is awarded.

These are the different benefits a assertion for PIP whitethorn entitle you to:

• Access to Work
• Carer’s Allowance
• Carer’s Credit
• Child Tax Credit - caller claims are present replaced by Universal Credit
• Council Tax Reduction
• Council Tax Discount
• Employment and Support Allowance - lone if you get the PIP regular surviving component
• Housing Benefit
• Income Support‎
• Jobseeker’s Allowance
• Pension Credit - lone if you get the PIP oregon ADP regular surviving component
• Universal Credit
• Working Tax Credit - caller claims replaced by Universal Credit