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PIP points self-check

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is scored across 10 daily-living and 2 mobility activities. Score 8-11 points on a component for the standard rate, 12+ for enhanced. This self-check lets you pick the descriptor that best matches your needs on a typical bad day and totals the points. Scotland uses identical descriptors for Adult Disability Payment.

Daily living activities

0 of 12 answered

For each activity, pick the descriptor that best matches your needs on a typical bad day — applying the reliability test: can you do it safely, to an acceptable standard, repeatedly, and in a reasonable time?

1. Preparing food
2. Taking nutrition
3. Managing therapy or monitoring a health condition
4. Washing and bathing
5. Managing toilet needs or incontinence
6. Dressing and undressing
7. Communicating verbally
8. Reading and understanding signs, symbols and words
9. Engaging with other people face-to-face
10. Making budgeting decisions

Mobility activities

Two activities. Scoring 8+ on one gives standard-rate mobility; 12+ gives enhanced rate (also the test used for Motability).

11. Planning and following journeys
12. Moving around

The reliability test

The key phrase PIP assessors use. You only “can” do an activity if you can do it all four of:

  • Safely — without risk of harm to yourself or others.
  • To an acceptable standard — a result a non-disabled person would consider acceptable.
  • Repeatedly — as often as reasonably required.
  • Within a reasonable time — typically no more than twice the time a non-disabled person would take.

If any of these fail, you can't reliably do the activity — score the descriptor that reflects that.

What this self-check doesn't do

  • Apply — only DWP (PIP) or Social Security Scotland (ADP) can award points.
  • Account for day-to-day variation weighting (the “majority-of-days” rule).
  • Score for Motability — enhanced-rate mobility unlocks Motability, but signing up is a separate process.
  • Cover children under 16 (they use DLA/CDP, with different descriptors).

For the full PIP claim process — phoning to start a claim, completing the PIP2 form, and the assessment — see our PIP guide. If you've already had a refusal or low award, request a Mandatory Reconsideration within a month.