DWP will give people with these conditions up to £184 a week in PIP

Support of up to £184.30 is available each week for millions of people who need help with living costs due to long-term health conditions or disabilities. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) provides the support through Personal Independence Payment (PIP) - a benefit given to assist those who have both a chronic physical or mental health condition.

It includes residents who have disability and experience difficulty doing certain everyday tasks or getting around because of their condition. PIP is comprised of two components and these are daily living, so if you need help with day-to-day tasks, and mobility, which is for those who require assistance getting around. Each of these components has a standard and enhanced rate, depending on how great your needs are.

In April of this year PIP rates increased by 6.7%, in line with inflation. Now the daily living component is £72.65 per week at the standard rate, or £108.55 at the enhanced rate. For the mobility component, this has risen to £28.70 at the standard rate and £75.75 at the enhanced rate. So a maximum weekly payment of £184.30. Recent figures there are 465,187 people currently claiming PIP for neurological conditions.

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Liverpool ECHO has provided a list of the neurological conditions being supported through PIP. A claimant's main disabling or medical condition is recorded during their assessment. The categories and groupings are based on DWP data.

Neurological conditions supported through PIP

Cerebrovascular disease

• Cerebrovascular accident (stroke)

• Cerebrovascular disease - Other / type not known

• Transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs)

Epilepsy

• Cataplexy

• Generalised seizures (with status epilepticus in last 12 months)

• Generalised seizures (without status epilepticus in last 12 months)

• Narcolepsy

• Partial seizures (with status epilepticus in last 12 months)

• Partial seizures (without status epilepticus in last 12 months)

• Seizures - unclassified

Non epileptic disturbance of consciousness

• Disturbances of consciousness - Non-epileptic - Other / type not known

• Drop attacks

• Non epileptic Attack disorder (pseudoseizures)

• Stokes Adams attacks (cardiovascular syncope)

• Syncope - Other / type not known

Movement disorders

• Blepharospasm

• Essential tremor - benign

• Huntington's disease

• Movement disorders - Other / type not known

• Parkinson's disease

• Parkinson's syndrome / Parkinsonism

• Torticollis

• Tourette's syndrome

• Writer's cramp

Multiple sclerosis

Benign tumours

• Neurofibromatosis

• Tumours - benign - Other / type not known

Hydrocephalus

Headache

• Dizziness - cause not specified

• Headache - Other causes of / cause not known

• Migraine

Head injury

• Head injury - Cognitive and sensorimotor impairment

• Head injury - Cognitive impairment

• Head injury - Sensorimotor impairment

Spinal cord compression

• Paraplegia (traumatic)

• Spinal cord compression - Other causes of / cause not known

• Syringomyelia / Syringobulbia

• Tetraplegia (traumatic)

Degenerative neuronal diseases

• Degenerative neuronal diseases - Other / type not known

• Motor neurone disease

Cerebral palsy

• Cerebral palsy - Ataxic

• Cerebral palsy - Athetoid

• Cerebral palsy - Diplegic

• Cerebral palsy - Hemiplegic

• Cerebral palsy - Other / type not known

• Cerebral palsy - Quadriplegic

Spina bifida

Ataxia

• Ataxia - Friedrich's

• Ataxias - Other / type not known

Neuropathy

• Charcot Marie Tooth disease

• Diabetic neuropathy

• Guillain Barre syndrome

• Neuropathies - Other / type not known including peripheral

Peripheral nerve injury

• Brachial plexus

• Peripheral nerve injury - Other / type not known

Disease of muscle

• Dermatomyositis

• Dystrophia myotonica

• Muscle - Other diseases of / type not known

• Myasthenia gravis

• Polymyositis

Muscular dystrophy

• Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy

• Muscular dystrophy - Becker type

• Muscular dystrophy - Duchenne

• Muscular dystrophy - limb girdle

• Muscular dystrophy - Other / type not known

Infections

• Creutzfeldt - Jacob disease (CJD)

• Infections - Other

• Poliomyelitis and post polio syndrome

• Prion diseases - Other / type not known

Other neurological disorders

• Neurological disorders - Other / type not known

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