{"id":93669,"date":"2025-10-22T05:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93669\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T05:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:56:15","slug":"dwp-confirms-full-list-of-20-mental-health-conditions-that-could-make-you-eligible-for-up-to-750-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93669\/","title":{"rendered":"DWP confirms full list of 20 mental health conditions that could make you eligible for up to \u00a3750 a month"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have one of 20 psychiatric disorders that qualify you for Personal Independence Payments, you could receive up to \u00a3749.80 a month from the DWP\"AsianThere are 1,482,217 current PIP claims based on the various mental health conditions(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP<\/a>) has listed the 20 mental health conditions that could make you eligible for up to \u00a3749.80 a month in Personal Independence Payments.<\/p>\n

PIP<\/a> is a disability benefit<\/a> for adults of working age who have an illness, disability or mental health condition. It has a daily living rate component and a mobility rate component – you can be entitled to one of these or both depending on your situation.<\/p>\n

Payments are typically made every four weeks, and if you qualify for both the enhanced daily living and enhanced mobility components of the payments, you will receive a total of \u00a3749.80 over this pay period.<\/p>\n

Depending on individual circumstances, people can claim either one or both of the daily living or mobility components.<\/p>\n

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There are 20 types of psychiatric disorders that qualify you for Personal Independence Payment, according to the most recent Government data of July 2025.<\/p>\n

According to the data, there were a total of 1,482,217 PIP claims made based on the various mental health conditions.<\/p>\n

Below is the full list of the conditions, including examples, and the amount of PIP claims that were active based on these conditions as of July.<\/p>\n

Full list of 20 mental health conditionsPersonality 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<\/p>\n

It comes after rates of PIP increased in April in line with inflation. Every year rates of benefits go up in line with the rate of inflation from the previous September.<\/p>\n

In September 2024 this was confirmed as being 1.7%, according to the consumer price index. PIP is one of nine benefits the Department for Work and Pensions is legally obliged to raise annually.<\/p>\n

Below is the full list of new PIP rates.<\/p>\n

Personal Independence Payment rates:<\/p>\n

Daily living<\/p>\n

Lower rate: increasing from \u00a372.65 a week to \u00a373.90 a weekHigher rate: increasing from \u00a3108.55 a week to \u00a3110.40 a week<\/p>\n

Mobility<\/p>\n

Lower rate: increasing from \u00a328.70 a week to \u00a329.20 a weekHigher rate: increasing from \u00a375.75 a week to \u00a377.05 a week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you have one of 20 psychiatric disorders that qualify you for Personal Independence Payments, you could receive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1052,5241,3733,134,554,555,111,139,69,69740],"class_list":{"0":"post-93669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-benefits","9":"tag-disability-benefits","10":"tag-dwp","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-mentalhealth","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-pip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}