The Department for Work and Pensions has listed the 20 mental health conditions that could make you eligible for up to £749.80 a month in Personal Independence Payments
08:34, 23 Oct 2025Updated 08:36, 23 Oct 2025
DWP confirms 20 mental health conditions that could make you eligible for PIP(Image: Justin Paget via Getty Images)
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has outlined the 20 mental health conditions that could qualify you for up to £749.80 a month in Personal Independence Payments (PIP).
PIP is a disability benefit for working-age adults who have an illness, disability or mental health condition. It comprises a daily living rate component and a mobility rate component – eligibility for one or both depends on individual circumstances.
Payments are typically made every four weeks, and if you qualify for both the enhanced daily living and enhanced mobility components, you will receive a total of £749.80 over this pay period. Depending on personal circumstances, individuals can claim either one or both of the daily living or mobility components.
There are 20 types of psychiatric disorders that qualify you for Personal Independence Payment, according to the most recent Government data as of July 2025, reports the Manchester Evening News. According to these figures, there were a total of 1,482,217 PIP claims made based on various mental health conditions.
Below is the comprehensive list of the conditions, including examples, and the number of active PIP claims based on these conditions as of July.
Full list of 20 mental health conditions
This comes after PIP rates increased in April in line with inflation. Every year, benefit rates rise in line with the rate of inflation from the previous September.
In September 2024, this was confirmed to be 1.7%, as per the consumer price index. The Department for Work and Pensions is legally required to increase PIP, along with eight other benefits, on an annual basis.
Here are the updated PIP rates in full:
Personality disorder: 56,956Specific learning disorder (such as dyslexia and dyspraxia): 36,572Stress reactions (such as PTSD): 63,565Anxiety disorders (such as agoraphobia): 64,302Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD): 11,514Mixed anxiety and depressive disorders: 418,963Somatoform and dissociative disorders (such as body dysmorphic disorder): 1,934Mood disorders (such as bipolar): 150,215Psychotic disorders (such as schizophrenia): 129,548Cognitive disorders (such as dementia): 26,983Eating disorders (such as anorexia): 8,076Substance (mis)use disorders (such as alcohol misuse): 17,279Factitious disorder (such as Munchausen syndrome): 28Global learning disability (such as Down’s syndrome): 171,691Autistic spectrum disorders (such as ASD): 234,519Hyperkinetic disorder (such as ADHD): 87,813Conduct disorder (such as oppositional defiant disorder): 1,204Enuresis (such as bedwetting): 40Faecal soiling (such as encopresis): 60Other psychiatric disorders of childhood: 952
Personal Independence Payment rates:
Daily living
Lower rate: increasing from £72.65 a week to £73.90 a weekHigher rate: increasing from £108.55 a week to £110.40 a week
Mobility
Lower rate: increasing from £28.70 a week to £29.20 a weekHigher rate: increasing from £75.75 a week to £77.05 a week
We have a dedicated newsletter for ChronicleLive’s money-saving and cost of living stories. It’s free and you can sign up to receive it here. It will keep you up to date with all the latest money news and budgeting tips as well as stories on the cost of living crisis in our region.
Join our WhatsApp communities
ChronicleLive is now on WhatsApp and we want you to join our communities.
We have a number of communities to join, so you can choose which one you want to be part of and we’ll send you the latest news direct to your phone. You could even join them all!
To join you need to have WhatsApp on your device. All you need to do is choose which community you want to join, click on the link and press ‘join community’.
No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the ChronicleLive team.
We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners.
If you don’t like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose ‘exit group’.
If you’re curious, you can read our privacy notice.
Join the ChronicleLive Breaking News and Top Stories community
Join our Court & Crime community
Join the Things to do in Newcastle and the North East community
Join our Northumberland community
Join our County Durham community
Join our Great North Run community