Benefits and Work has compiled a list of over 500 conditions arranged in order of how hard it is to get an award of PIP, using the DWP’s own Stat-Xplore database.
The overall average success rate for PIP claims is 52%.
But this can vary greatly depending on the condition.
So, for example, awards for continence related conditions tend to fall below the average:
- Urge incontinence 13.7%
- Stress incontinence 15.7%
- Faecal soiling (encopresis) 23.8%
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) 26.1%
Awards for arthritis, on the other hand, are above the average:
- Osteoarthritis of other single joint 56.5%
- Osteoarthritis of Knee 64.2%
- Osteoarthritis of Hip 73.8%
- Primary generalised Osteoarthritis 74.0%
- Rheumatoid arthritis 74.7%
Awards relating to mental health vary widely:
- Anxiety disorders - Other / type not known 38.8%
- Generalised anxiety disorder 42.7%
- Anxiety and depressive disorders – mixed 49.6%
- Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 58.2%
- Bipolar affective disorder 61.3%
- Schizophrenia 69.7%
Some conditions are extremely likely to attract an award:
- Dementia 94.1%
- Motor neurone disease 97.5%
- Down’s syndrome 99.6%
- Creutzfeldt - Jacob disease (CJD) 100%
But on its own this doesn’t tell the whole tale. For example, it doesn’t tell us what percentage of claimants got the enhanced rate of one or both components.
We can drill down further into DWP statistics to get these details. But it would be an enormous task to produce this information for every condition.
And it still wouldn’t tell us whether claimants are more or less likely to get the award that they think is correct.
So, we’d like to hear from readers about which conditions you think are the hardest to make a PIP claim for.
You may have experience of claiming for more than one condition. You may have helped people with different conditions who have put in a claim. Or you may consider your condition to be hard to claim for because it is treated with scepticism by some in the health professions.
Based on your feedback, we will produce more information about award rates for specific conditions.
Members can download the full list of over 500 conditions and percentage success rates in a pdf file entitled ‘Success rates for PIP claims by condition’ from the ‘Claims’ section of the PIP guides page.
