The Short Answer
The mobility component is scored across two activities only, and you need at least 8 points for the standard rate or 12 for the enhanced rate. Planning and following journeys assesses the cognitive and psychological side of getting somewhere; moving around assesses physical distance. Points from both are added into one total. Daily living points never count toward it. The calculator above uses the descriptors exactly as Schedule 1 sets them out.
How the Mobility Component Is Scored
Two activities, one descriptor each, added into a single total. With only two activities in the component, each descriptor carries far more weight than it does on the daily living side, and single descriptors reach both thresholds.
| Mobility total | Award | Weekly amount |
|---|---|---|
| 0 to 7 points | No mobility component | — |
| 8 to 11 points | Standard rate | £30.30 |
| 12 points or more | Enhanced rate | £80.00 |
Last checked: 6 August 2026
The gap between the two rates is the largest proportional step in the assessment: £49.70 a week, or £198.80 every 4 weeks. It is also the step that decides access to the Motability Scheme, which requires the enhanced rate. Working through how pip points works across all twelve activities shows where a claim sits against that edge.
The Two Activities Assess Different Things
Planning and following journeys covers mental health, cognitive and sensory limitations; moving around covers physical ones. The DWP assessment guide is explicit that the first "is designed for limitations on mobility deriving from mental health, cognitive and sensory impairments, whereas activity 12 is generally designed for limitations from physical problems".
The guide also draws the boundary for falls. A risk arising from a physical inability to move safely belongs to moving around. A fall arising from a sensory or cognitive impairment, such as a seizure with loss of consciousness, belongs to planning and following journeys instead.
Where the Points Sit
Both activities reach 12 points, so either can pay the enhanced rate on its own. On journeys, being unable to follow the route of a familiar journey without another person, an assistance dog or an orientation aid scores 12. On moving around, being able to stand and move no more than 20 metres scores 12.
Below those, the bands differ in character. Journeys is scored on the kind of help needed: prompting at 4 points, inability to plan a route at 8, inability to follow an unfamiliar route or to travel at all at 10. Moving around is scored on measured distance: 4 points above 50 metres, 8 or 10 between 20 and 50 metres.
What the Mobility Component Pays
The standard rate is £30.30 a week and the enhanced rate is £80.00. Paid every 4 weeks, that is £121.20 and £320.00. The full breakdown, including how the amounts change each April, is on the Mobility Component Rates page.
Last checked: 6 August 2026
The mobility component also opens other entitlements. Either rate qualifies for a Disabled Persons Railcard; the enhanced rate qualifies for the Motability Scheme and a full vehicle tax exemption. GOV.UK lists the Blue Badge and vehicle tax positions in its own guidance.
Score the Whole Assessment
A mobility total is half the assessment. Daily living is scored separately under regulation 5 of the PIP Regulations 2013, across 10 activities, and points never combine across the two components. Two tools complete the picture:
- Score all 12 activities in the how pip points works tool.
- Score the ten daily living activities on their own with the daily living points calculator.
Related guidance: Motability and PIP.