Disability
PIP points calculator: score each activity the way the assessor does
One descriptor per activity, the points added up per part, and the weekly rate those points give.
Checked by Radif Partners · Editorial policy · How we calculate
PIP is decided on points, not on a diagnosis. The assessment looks at ten daily living activities, such as preparing food, washing and managing money, and two mobility activities, planning a journey and physically moving around. In each activity you score the points of the one descriptor that fits you, from 0 up to 12. The scores are added separately for each part: 8 points or more gives the standard rate and 12 or more the enhanced rate. In 2026/27 that means £76.70 or £114.60 a week for daily living and £30.30 or £80.00 for mobility. A descriptor only counts if it applies on more than half of the days and if you can do the task reliably: safely, to a decent standard, as often as needed and within twice the normal time. The calculator lists every descriptor from Schedule 1 of the regulations with its points.
Daily living activities
Mobility activities
PIP a week if the assessment agrees
£0.00
£0.00 every 4 weeks
| Daily living: 0 points, no award | £0.00 |
| Mobility: 0 points, no award | £0.00 |
8 points in a component give the standard rate, 12 the enhanced rate. A descriptor counts if it applies on more than half of the days over the required period; only the highest-scoring descriptor of each activity is counted.
How a score is built
For each activity, pick the sentence that describes what you can do on most days with any aid you normally use. Activity 11 covers the mental side of getting out, such as anxiety or following a route; activity 12 the physical side. Remember the reliability rule in regulation 4: if walking 50 metres leaves you in pain for the rest of the day, you cannot do it repeatedly and that descriptor does not apply.
A worked example
Take a 48-year-old with arthritis in both knees and hands. She cannot cook a meal without someone helping her lift pans (4 points), needs help to wash below the waist (2), help to dress her lower body (2) and help with complex budgeting decisions because of medication fog (2). That is 10 daily living points: the standard rate. She can walk about 40 metres unaided before stopping, which scores 8 in moving around: standard mobility as well. Her award would be £107.00 a week, or £428.00 every four weeks.
If she needs a stick for those 40 metres, descriptor 12d scores 10 instead of 8: still the standard rate, still £107.00 a week. A single extra 4-point descriptor on daily living, though, would take her to 14 and the enhanced rate of £114.60.
| Part | Points | Rate | A week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily living | 10 | standard | £76.70 |
| Mobility | 8 | standard | £30.30 |
What the tool cannot judge
It cannot tell whether your evidence will persuade a decision maker, whether a descriptor applies on more than half of days (that is regulation 7), or whether your difficulties meet the time test of 3 months before the claim and 9 months after. It does not cover the special rules for end of life, under which the enhanced daily living rate is paid without points. Results from a reassessment can go down as well as up. To see what each combination of rates is worth over a year, use the PIP rates table; to check the age, residence and time conditions, read PIP eligibility. In Scotland the same activities and points decide Adult Disability Payment.