PIP, answered with the official figures

The DWP and the tribunal service publish how long PIP claims take, how many get an award and how often appeals succeed. This site puts those numbers in one place, with the source and date on every figure.

• How long a PIP claim takes: 18 weeks for a new claim in July 2026, stage by stage.
• PIP points calculator: the 12 activities and how their descriptors score, word for word from the regulations.
• PIP appeal success rate: how often mandatory reconsideration and tribunals change the decision.
• PIP award rates: how many first decisions are awards, for new claims and reassessments.
• How much is PIP?: the weekly rates, and what they come to every 4 weeks, a month and a year.
• PIP back pay calculator: what you're owed from the start of your award, across the April rate change.

Common questions

• Is PIP means tested?
• Can you work and claim PIP?
• Who can get PIP
• PIP and medical conditions
• The PIP assessment
• Mandatory reconsideration
• PIP tribunals
• PIP reviews

What's changed lately, including the Timms Review of the assessment, is on PIP news.

Source: DWP: Personal Independence Payment statistics to July 2026, published 15 September 2026.