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Per-condition PIP statistics, with the source next to every number.
A plain-English summary of official DWP Personal Independence Payment statistics, broken down by condition. Every figure on this site is drawn from DWP releases or Stat-Xplore and links back to the exact table it came from. Nothing is estimated, rounded up, or inferred. If DWP does not publish a per-condition figure, we do not show one.
As of April 2026. Next scheduled DWP update: 15 September 2026.
Read the methodology, what we source, what we deliberately do not publish, and why.
- Edition
- June 2026 DWP release
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
- DOI
- 10.5281/zenodo.21920593
Archived copy published 13 August 2026. The deposit defines the measure as awarded divided by awarded plus disallowed, new claims only, withdrawn excluded.
How to cite this
Finally Seen (2026). PIP new-claim award rates by condition and by constituency, June 2026 DWP release. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21920593
The DOI is the concept DOI and always resolves to the newest archived edition.
The Believability Gap.
All 165 DWP condition categories, ranked by how likely the system is to award them PIP. Interactive ladder, sortable league table, five narrated findings, straight from Stat-Xplore.
PIP award rates by condition and area
See the award rate for your condition and your area.
The Postcode Lottery.
PIP new-claim award rates in every Westminster constituency, ranked, searchable, sourced. A 17.6pt gap between the hardest and easiest seats.
What changed.
A permanent log, updated the morning of every quarterly DWP release. Baseline: July 2026.
The descriptors, word for word.
All 12 activities and 67 statutory descriptors from Schedule 1 to SI 2013/377, with the published point value beside each and the 8 and 12 point thresholds. Nothing predicted.
These are all-conditions figures. DWP does not publish these broken down per condition; see the methodology.
Pick a condition.
PIP statistics for ADHD
Read the figures →PIP statistics for Fibromyalgia
Read the figures →PIP statistics for ME and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Read the figures →PIP statistics for Autism (adults)
Read the figures →PIP statistics for Anxiety and depression (mixed)
Read the figures →PIP statistics for Endometriosis
Read the figures →PIP statistics for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and hypermobility
Read the figures →PIP statistics for Long COVID
Read the figures →PIP statistics for Chronic pain syndromes
Read the figures →PIP statistics for Multiple sclerosis
Read the figures →What this resource is not.
This is not benefits advice and does not predict any individual PIP decision. It is a citation asset: a summary of what DWP itself publishes, with every source linked so anyone can verify. For personal advice, contact Citizens Advice or a local welfare rights service.
How to read these figures
- Source
- DWP Stat-Xplore and the published DWP PIP statistical releases. Every figure on the page carries its own source link and the period it covers, and no figure here is recomputed or modelled by us.
- Population
- everyone in Great Britain with a PIP claim recorded under the disabling condition named on this page. Claims are coded by DWP to a single primary disabling condition, so a person with more than one condition appears once, under one code.
- Suppression and small numbers
- DWP rounds published volumes and suppresses small cells to protect identity. Where a group is too small to publish a stable rate we do not print a rate for it, and we do not fill the gap with an estimate.
- What these figures are not
- They are averages across a whole condition code over a whole period. They are not a prediction about any individual claim, not a measure of how disabling a condition is, and not a statement about anyone's entitlement. Decisions are made on the evidence in a single claim.
Full methodology: sources, periods, coding and known limitations.
Where are you in the process?
The figures above describe a population, not a person. If you are in the PIP process yourself, these are the three stages and what each one is for.
- Claiming or being reassessed now
A personalised PIP evidence pack written around the four reliability limbs, from your own answers.
Not available in Scotland.
- Decision refused, or scored lower than expected
A point-by-point mandatory reconsideration letter built from your decision letter, in the descriptor language DWP scores against. You have one month from the date of the decision letter.
England and Wales only.
Free help with any of these stages is available at no cost from Citizens Advice, your local welfare rights service and law centres. You do not have to pay anyone to make a claim or to challenge a decision.
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