The 10 freebies and discounts worth up to £70k you can get on PIP benefits in October

MILLIONS of radical claiming the Personal Independence Payout (PIP) payment are eligible for other freebies and discounts.

Those who assertion PIP for assistance with semipermanent health conditions and disabilities could beryllium missing retired connected other advantages which travel with the benefit.

PIP is an important payment for adults aged 16 and implicit who person not reached state pension property (66) and is made up of 2 parts.

One is to assistance with day-to-day tasks and the different is to assistance with mobility for those who request assistance getting around.

And whether you are capable to assertion some depends connected your disability and however it affects you.

The magnitude you tin get wrong these brackets besides differs depending connected your idiosyncratic circumstance.

Payments are issued each 4 weeks.

In April, payments for the regular surviving constituent accrued from £101.75 to £108.55 for enhanced and £68.10 to £72.65 for standard.

The mobility constituent besides roseate from £71 to £75.75 for enhanced, and £26.09 to £28.70 for standard.

If you get some parts, you tin person a maximum of £184.30 each 4 weeks - which is astir £10,000 a year.

Eligible applicants indispensable person lived successful England, Scotland oregon Wales for astatine slightest 2 of the past 3 years, and presently surviving successful 1 of these countries.

Whereas the process is antithetic if you're from Northern Ireland, you unrecorded abroad, oregon you're not a British citizen.

Health professionals measure the claimant to enactment retired the level of fiscal assistance needed to enactment the intelligence oregon carnal disability.

Then payments are made each 4 weeks into the individual's slope account, tax-free.

Here are 10 freebies you tin besides get if you assertion the PIP benefit. It could beryllium worthy thousands of pounds other a year, but of people the nonstop magnitude tin alteration depending connected your circumstances.

Council taxation discounts - £2,171 average

People who assertion benefits tin use connected the Government website for a council tax reduction.

This means if you're either the regular surviving oregon mobility portion of PIP you could get money disconnected your assembly tax bill.

Some claimants are eligible for arsenic overmuch arsenic a afloat discount.

Though the magnitude volition alteration depending connected wherever you unrecorded and however overmuch of the payment you receive.

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.

In bid to find retired if you are eligible, interaction your section authority, and they volition question a PIP missive arsenic evidence.

Reportedly astir 2.8 cardinal radical don't instrumentality vantage of the assembly taxation discount, meaning £2.7 cardinal goes unclaimed each year.

Blue badge - £3,800 average

With a blue badge, those with disabilities tin assertion exemption from definite parking restrictions and instrumentality vantage of designated parking spaces.

The spaces usually connection much country to the idiosyncratic and are located person to store entrances.

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.

According to Just Park, Brits walk £3,800 connected parking connected mean each year.

Which means PIP claimants could beryllium redeeming this overmuch with their bluish badge.

The bluish badge indispensable beryllium disposable to others and displayed connected the windscreen of your car.

Those who suffice for a bluish badge person 1 of the pursuing benefits:

• Disability surviving allowance
• War Pensioners' Mobility Supplement
• Received a lump sum outgo arsenic portion of the Armed Forces compensation strategy (tariffs 1 to 8)

Anyone with a constricted quality to walk, a disablement successful their arms, oregon who are registered unsighted are eligible for the badge.

To apply, you indispensable taxable PIP grounds to your assembly - nevertheless they usually complaint a interest up to £10.

Benefit boost - £7,334.40

Individuals connected PIP arsenic good arsenic 1 of a fig of different benefits tin assertion a premium - which is an other payment apical up.

You tin assertion a boost if you're receiving 1 of the pursuing alongside PIP:

• 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

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 with the maximum amount, you could assertion up to £7,945.60 annually.

The apical up tin hap automatically - or, if you haven't received it erstwhile you should have, you should get successful interaction with the section successful complaint of handling your benefits.

This volition either beryllium HMRC oregon the Department for Work and Pensions, and they volition apt inquire for impervious of your PIP letter.

Go to Gov.uk and usage the Benefits Calculator to cheque your eligibility.

Capped h2o bills - £1,053

If you are claiming PIP, you could besides payment from a h2o measure headdress acknowledgment to the WaterSure scheme.

This means your measure could beryllium capped, truthful you're paying little than others successful your area.

Claimants indispensable beryllium connected a h2o metre oregon beryllium waiting to person 1 installed, and they should besides beryllium capable to beryllium that their disablement causes them to usage much h2o than an mean household.

According to WaterSure, the mean h2o measure a household pays annually is presently £471.

This means your measure volition beryllium capped astatine this magnitude if you are claiming PIP.

However, according to Martin Lewis, 1 idiosyncratic was refunded £1,053 done the scheme.

This strategy applies to households successful England only, and they should use by contacting their h2o supplier via its telephone enactment oregon website.

Vehicle taxation simplification - £1,177.50

Vehicle taxation is the aforesaid arsenic roadworthy taxation - it is the terms you wage to thrust connected the roads.

People who assertion the modular mobility constituent of PIP tin get up to a 50% simplification successful conveyance tax.

You tin besides get 100% disconnected if you're connected the enhanced complaint mobility component.

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

This is not ever the case, and the magnitude could apt beryllium lower.

To beryllium eligible, applicants indispensable beryllium registering the conveyance successful their ain sanction oregon the sanction of their nominated driver.

They indispensable besides provide:

• A missive oregon connection from DWP that shows your PIP rate and the dates you’re getting it
• The conveyance log publication (V5C)
• A V10 form
• An archetypal MOT oregon GVT certificate (if your conveyance needs one)
• A cheque oregon payable bid (made retired to "DVLA, Swansea") for 50% of the full complaint of car taxation for the vehicle

Paperwork should past beryllium sent to DVLA, Swansea, SA99 1BF.

Motability Scheme - £23,760

The Motability Scheme is designed to let PIP claimants to lease a car for their circumstantial needs.

There are implicit 2,000 cars to take from and insurance, taxation and servicing are each sorted wrong the lease.

This is for radical connected the higher complaint of the mobility constituent connected PIP, and who besides person astatine slightest 12 months remaining connected their allowance.

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 save.

Go to motability.co.uk for accusation connected however to apply.

Free prescriptions - £115.80

If you are claiming PIP and person a definite qualifying illness, you could get your NHS prescriptions for free.

The medicine complaint is £9.65 which means you could prevention £115.80 a year.

The afloat database of disabilities are disposable connected the NHS website, and see crab diabetes and epilsepsy.

Claimants indispensable supply a aesculapian exemption summons (MedEx) which you tin get online if you inquire your GP for a signed FP92A form.

Disabled person's railcard - £113

According to National Rail, adults with a disablement tin get a 3rd disconnected of question with a Disabled Persons Railcard.

This means you could assertion an mean yearly savings of up to £113, says the group.

With your PIP grant letter, you tin use connected National Rail's website.

Discounted days retired - £144

Many attractions connection discounted prices to those who tin amusement they are connected PIP oregon person a bluish badge.

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 costs £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, arsenic good arsenic the further bonus of reduced autobus and bid travel.

To browse which discounts you tin get, disablement charity Scope connection a useful summary of what's connected offer.

Disabled facilities assistance - £30,000

PIP provides utile grounds for those wishing to use for a Disabled Facilities Grant.

This is simply a assistance which allows you to rework your location to suit the needs of your disability.

For example, barroom handles for bathrooms oregon ramps for wheelchair access.

People successful England tin get a assistance up to £30,000, portion those successful Wales tin get £26,000, and Northern Ireland £25,000.

This assistance strategy does not see Scotland.

This is the wide maximum, and could beryllium overmuch little depending connected your circumstance.

Gov.uk specifies that successful circumstantial cases the assistance could beryllium adjacent higher, based connected the outgo of the enactment connected the property.

The assistance tin beryllium acquired done your section council, truthful you should spell to their website to find retired however to apply.

How bash I use for PIP?

You tin marque a caller PIP assertion by calling the Department for Work and Pensions connected 0800 917 2222.

There are besides different ways to assertion if you find it hard to usage a telephone. See Gov.UK for much information.

When you claim, you'll need:

• Your interaction details
• Date of birth
• National Insurance number
• Bank oregon gathering nine relationship fig and benignant code
• Your doc oregon wellness worker’s name, code and telephone number
• Dates and addresses for immoderate clip you’ve spent abroad, successful a attraction location oregon hospital

Someone other tin telephone connected your behalf, but you’ll request to beryllium with them erstwhile they call.

You'll past beryllium sent a signifier to capable in, aft which you'll beryllium invited for an appraisal oregon your wellness oregon societal attraction idiosyncratic volition beryllium asked for information.

After this, you'll beryllium sent a missive telling you if your assertion has been successful.

You tin find retired much connected the government's website.

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