These are all the possible payment awards you will receive for Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment
New rates for Personal Independence Payment and Scotland’s equivalent Adult Disability Payment are set to be introduced in April 2025.
As it stands, the amounts for those benefits are to rise by 1.7 per cent from April 7, 2025, as shown in Government documentation.
A new Health and Disability Green Paper is expected to announce £6 billion in cuts around the time of the Chancellor’s Spring Statement on March 26. Reports suggest this will be largely achieved by restricting eligibility for PIP and freezing its payment rates for the following year.
PIP and other disability benefits normally have to rise by the rate of inflation each year but a freeze could now be imposed to keep costs down. PIP can currently pay more than £9,500 per annum at its maximum award level and is not means-tested, taxable, conditional on work or subject to the benefit cap.
Statistics show a clear drop-off in employment levels after people successfully claim PIP. At the time a PIP award is approved, 37 per cent of applicants are working but only 23 per cent are still in employment after 12 months on the benefit.
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The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “Our broken social security system is holding our people back, our economy back.
“We’ve got three million people out of work for health reasons, one in eight young people is not currently in work, education or training, and that is a shocking situation to be in.”
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall told Cabinet colleagues the current system is “bad for people’s wellbeing and health”, with the sickness and disability bill for working-age people rising by £20 billion since the pandemic and forecast to hit £70 billion over the next five years.
Below we have listed the current and new payment rates for PIP and ADP. Awards are based on a weekly payment rate but are paid out every four weeks.
Here are all eight possible payment amounts payable currently and from April 2025. If reports of a PIP freeze are correct, then these new rates will carry on into the 2026/2027 financial year.
The list shows that from April 2025, the minimum a person can get will rise to £116.80 every four weeks and the maximum will go up to £749.80 every four weeks.
1. Standard daily living component only
Payment rate: increasing from £72.65 to £73.90
Monthly amount (every four weeks): increasing from £290.60 to £295.60
Annual amount (based on 52 weeks): increasing from £3,777.80 to £3,842.80
2. Enhanced daily living component only
Payment rate: increasing from £108.55 to £110.40
Monthly amount (every four weeks): increasing from £434.20 to £441.60
Annual amount (based on 52 weeks): increasing from £5,644.60 to £5,740.80
3. Standard mobility component only
Payment rate: increasing from £28.70 to £29.20
Monthly amount (every four weeks): increasing from £114.80 to £116.80 (minimum amount of PIP you can receive)
Annual amount (based on 52 weeks): increasing from £1,492.40 to £1,518.40
4. Enhanced mobility component only
Payment rate: increasing from £75.75 to £77.05
Monthly amount (every four weeks): increasing from £303 to £308.20
Annual amount (based on 52 weeks): increasing from £3,939 to £4,006.60
5. Combined award of standard daily living plus standard mobility
Payment rate: increasing from £101.35 to £103.10
Monthly amount (every four weeks): increasing from £405.40 to £412.40
Annual amount (based on 52 weeks): increasing from £5,270.20 to £5,361.20
6. Combined award of standard daily living plus enhanced mobility
Payment rate: increasing from £148.40 to £150.95
Monthly amount (every four weeks): increasing from £593.60 to £603.80
Annual amount (based on 52 weeks): increasing from £7,716.80 to £7,849.40
7. Combined award of enhanced daily living plus standard mobility
Payment rate: increasing from £137.25 to £139.60
Monthly amount (every four weeks): increasing from £549 to £558.40
Annual amount (based on 52 weeks): increasing from £7,137 to £7,259.20
8. Combined award of enhanced daily living plus enhanced mobility
Payment rate: increasing from £184.30 to £187.45
Monthly amount (every four weeks): increasing from £737.20 to £749.80 (maximum amount of PIP you can receive)
Annual amount (based on 52 weeks): increasing from £9,583.60 to £9,747.40
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