The Personal Independence Payment is exclusively aimed for those who suffer from a severe health condition or disability. As such, the eligibility for the payments is focused around how those disabilities affect day to day life. The government details that claimants must be between 16 and the state pension age to claim. On top of this, there must be a health condition which results in the person having difficulties with daily living or getting around (or both) for three months and these difficulties are expected to continue for at least nine months (baring being terminally ill with less than six months to live).

To receive the daily living part of PIPs a certain number of issues will need to be prevalent.

The claimant may receive this payment if they need help more than “half of the time” with things like preparing or eating food, bathing or using the toilet, dressing themselves, reading, managing medicines, financial decision making or engaging with other people.

For mobility payments the criteria is that the claimant simply needs help going out or physically moving around.

So long as the claimant qualifies, they will receive a decision letter which details the date of the first payment and how payments will work moving forward.

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This later may also detail when the payments are expected to end and if the claim will be reviewed in the future.

The government must be informed if there are any changes in circumstances which could affect payments or the claimants conditions.

These changes can include personal detail changes like new addresses, if the help needed changes, if the claimant is going into hospital or a care home, if they’re going abroad or if they’re imprisoned.

From April 2020, benefits across the board will rise by 1.7 percent.