If you have one of 20 psychiatric disorders that qualify you for Personal Independence Payments, you could receive up to £749.80 a month from the DWPAsian woman feel distressed managing finances, paying bills and taxes at homeThere are 1,482,217 current PIP claims based on the various mental health conditions(Image: Getty Images)

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has listed the 20 mental health conditions that could make you eligible for up to £749.80 a month in Personal Independence Payments.

PIP is a disability benefit 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.

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 £749.80 over this pay period.

Depending on individual circumstances, people can claim either one or both of the daily living or mobility components.

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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.

According to the data, there were a total of 1,482,217 PIP claims made based on the various mental health conditions.

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.

Full list of 20 mental health conditions

  • Personality disorder: 56,956
  • Specific learning disorder (such as dyslexia and dyspraxia): 36,572
  • Stress reactions (such as PTSD): 63,565
  • Anxiety disorders (such as agoraphobia): 64,302
  • Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD): 11,514
  • Mixed anxiety and depressive disorders: 418,963
  • Somatoform and dissociative disorders (such as body dysmorphic disorder): 1,934
  • Mood disorders (such as bipolar): 150,215
  • Psychotic disorders (such as schizophrenia): 129,548
  • Cognitive disorders (such as dementia): 26,983
  • Eating disorders (such as anorexia): 8,076
  • Substance (mis)use disorders (such as alcohol misuse): 17,279
  • Factitious disorder (such as Munchausen syndrome): 28
  • Global learning disability (such as Down’s syndrome): 171,691
  • Autistic spectrum disorders (such as ASD): 234,519
  • Hyperkinetic disorder (such as ADHD): 87,813
  • Conduct disorder (such as oppositional defiant disorder): 1,204
  • Enuresis (such as bedwetting): 40
  • Faecal soiling (such as encopresis): 60
  • Other psychiatric disorders of childhood: 952

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.

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.

Below is the full list of new PIP rates.

Personal Independence Payment rates:

Daily living

  • Lower rate: increasing from £72.65 a week to £73.90 a week
  • Higher rate: increasing from £108.55 a week to £110.40 a week

Mobility

  • Lower rate: increasing from £28.70 a week to £29.20 a week
  • Higher rate: increasing from £75.75 a week to £77.05 a week