The Short Answer
The PIP calculators here cover back pay, points, rates and payment dates, plus 36 condition calculators that score a diagnosis against the activities it most often affects. Every tool applies the official Schedule 1 descriptors and the current GOV.UK rates, runs in your browser and gives an estimate in about two minutes. No condition scores points by name: 8 points in a component pays the standard rate and 12 pays the enhanced rate.
Each calculator gives you a number in about two minutes, free and without sign-up. Start with the tool that matches your situation.
A condition calculator pre-filters the 12 activities to the ones a condition most often affects, then scores them with the same official descriptors as the main points calculator. No condition scores by name: every point comes from a descriptor in Schedule 1 of the PIP Regulations 2013, and 8 points in a component pays the standard rate while 12 pays the enhanced rate. The directory, by category:
Each category concentrates its points in a predictable set of activities, and this mapping is the starting layer every condition calculator in that category builds on:
| Category | Activities where points typically land |
|---|---|
| Mental health | Engaging with other people; planning and following journeys; prompting across daily living tasks |
| Musculoskeletal and pain | Moving around; washing and bathing; dressing; preparing food |
| Neurological | Both mobility activities; managing therapy; washing; communicating |
| Digestive, respiratory and cardiovascular | Managing toilet needs; taking nutrition; managing therapy; moving around |
| Sensory, developmental and other | Communicating; reading; engaging with other people; making budgeting decisions |
Two principles hold across every entry. The scoring never changes: each condition calculator applies the same descriptors, thresholds and rates as the main calculator, because the law scores difficulty, not diagnosis. And the mapping is guidance, not destiny: a condition's typical activities are a starting point, and your own answers decide the score. A filtered calculator therefore gives a partial score by design; the full points calculator covers all 12 activities.
The calculators divide the territory by the fact you already hold. Holding dates and a decision, or waiting on one, points to the back pay calculator, which prices the arrears window at each year's rates. Holding difficulties but no award points to the points calculator, or to your condition's calculator. Holding an award points to the rates calculator, which converts components into weekly, 4-weekly and yearly money. Holding an old DLA award beside a new PIP one points to the DLA transfer tool, and a payment date you already know points to the payment date checker.
The tools chain naturally because each one's output is the next one's input. A points score implies an award; the award converts to rates; the rates price a back pay window. Running all three in sequence turns a difficulties-only starting point into a full money picture, every figure at the current verified rates.
Five commitments hold across the directory. Every tool is free, with no sign-up and no data leaving your browser. Every figure comes from the official sources, generated rather than typed, and stamped with its verification date. Every tool states its method beneath the interface. Every result is an estimate, clearly marked, never a decision. And every calculator passes the same tests before it ships, because a wrong number on one tool would undermine trust in all of them.
The same four GOV.UK weekly rates power the whole directory: £76.70 and £114.60 for daily living, £30.30 and £80.00 for mobility in 2026/27. Paid every 4 weeks, the highest combined award is £778.40.
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Rates change each April, and every calculator reads them from one generated configuration, so the whole directory moves to the new figures on the same day.
There are 36 condition calculators, from anxiety to lupus, each pre-filtered to the activities that condition most often affects. If yours is not listed, the points calculator scores any condition through the same 12 activities.
Start with what you know. Know your difficulties: use the points calculator or your condition's calculator. Know your award: use the rates calculator. Waiting on a decision or a challenge: use the back pay calculator with your dates.
No. Every calculator runs in your browser and sends nothing anywhere. Closing the page clears what you entered.
No. Every result is an estimate. A DWP decision maker also applies the reliability criteria and the majority-of-days rule to your evidence, which no calculator can do.
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Figures are drawn from the official sources listed above.
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