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PIP points self-check

Go through the 12 PIP activities one at a time and see roughly how many points may apply to you, and how much PIP that could mean.

This check takes about 10 minutes. There are 3 quick questions about you, then one question for each PIP activity.

Two rules to keep in mind

  • Think about most days. If your condition changes from day to day, pick the answer that is true on more than half of days.
  • Think about doing it reliably. Only say you can do something if you can do it safely, well enough, again and again, and in a reasonable time. Pain, tiredness and the effect on you afterwards all count.

At the end you can print or save your answers as a PDF to help you fill in the PIP form.

Private by design. Your answers stay on your phone or computer. They are never sent to us or anyone else, and we cannot see them.

About you How old are you?
About you Where do you live?
About you How long have you had these difficulties?

PIP is for long-term conditions. You need to have had difficulties for at least 3 months and expect them to last at least another 9 months.

Daily living activity 1 of 12 Preparing a simple meal

This means making a simple hot meal for one person from fresh ingredients, such as peeling and chopping vegetables and cooking them on a hob or in an oven. It is about whether you can, not whether you usually do.

What this means

An aid or appliance is anything that helps you do the task, such as a perching stool, a grab rail or a long-handled sponge. It still counts if you need one but do not have one yet.

Prompting means someone reminding you, encouraging you or explaining what to do. Supervision means someone needs to be there to keep you safe. Help (or assistance) means someone physically doing part of it for you.

Think about most days, meaning more than half of the days over a year. If your condition changes from day to day, pick the answer that is true on more than half of days, not just your best or worst day.

Only count something as a thing you can do if you can do it:

  • safely, without risk of harm to you or anyone else
  • to a good enough standard
  • again and again, as often as you need to
  • in a reasonable time, no more than about twice as long as someone without your condition

If pain, tiredness or a flare afterwards means you can't do it like this, count it as something you can't do.

Daily living activity 2 of 12 Eating and drinking

This means cutting up food, getting food and drink to your mouth, chewing and swallowing.

What this means

An aid or appliance is anything that helps you do the task, such as a perching stool, a grab rail or a long-handled sponge. It still counts if you need one but do not have one yet.

Prompting means someone reminding you, encouraging you or explaining what to do. Supervision means someone needs to be there to keep you safe. Help (or assistance) means someone physically doing part of it for you.

Think about most days, meaning more than half of the days over a year. If your condition changes from day to day, pick the answer that is true on more than half of days, not just your best or worst day.

Only count something as a thing you can do if you can do it:

  • safely, without risk of harm to you or anyone else
  • to a good enough standard
  • again and again, as often as you need to
  • in a reasonable time, no more than about twice as long as someone without your condition

If pain, tiredness or a flare afterwards means you can't do it like this, count it as something you can't do.

Daily living activity 3 of 12 Managing medicines and treatment

This means taking medicines at the right time and dose, noticing changes in your health, and doing treatment at home that a health professional has prescribed, such as physiotherapy exercises.

What this means

An aid or appliance is anything that helps you do the task, such as a perching stool, a grab rail or a long-handled sponge. It still counts if you need one but do not have one yet.

Prompting means someone reminding you, encouraging you or explaining what to do. Supervision means someone needs to be there to keep you safe. Help (or assistance) means someone physically doing part of it for you.

Think about most days, meaning more than half of the days over a year. If your condition changes from day to day, pick the answer that is true on more than half of days, not just your best or worst day.

Only count something as a thing you can do if you can do it:

  • safely, without risk of harm to you or anyone else
  • to a good enough standard
  • again and again, as often as you need to
  • in a reasonable time, no more than about twice as long as someone without your condition

If pain, tiredness or a flare afterwards means you can't do it like this, count it as something you can't do.

Daily living activity 4 of 12 Washing and bathing

This means washing your face, hair and body, and getting in and out of a normal bath or shower (not an adapted one).

What this means

An aid or appliance is anything that helps you do the task, such as a perching stool, a grab rail or a long-handled sponge. It still counts if you need one but do not have one yet.

Prompting means someone reminding you, encouraging you or explaining what to do. Supervision means someone needs to be there to keep you safe. Help (or assistance) means someone physically doing part of it for you.

Think about most days, meaning more than half of the days over a year. If your condition changes from day to day, pick the answer that is true on more than half of days, not just your best or worst day.

Only count something as a thing you can do if you can do it:

  • safely, without risk of harm to you or anyone else
  • to a good enough standard
  • again and again, as often as you need to
  • in a reasonable time, no more than about twice as long as someone without your condition

If pain, tiredness or a flare afterwards means you can't do it like this, count it as something you can't do.

Daily living activity 5 of 12 Using the toilet

This means getting on and off the toilet, and cleaning yourself afterwards. It also covers managing incontinence.

What this means

An aid or appliance is anything that helps you do the task, such as a perching stool, a grab rail or a long-handled sponge. It still counts if you need one but do not have one yet.

Prompting means someone reminding you, encouraging you or explaining what to do. Supervision means someone needs to be there to keep you safe. Help (or assistance) means someone physically doing part of it for you.

Think about most days, meaning more than half of the days over a year. If your condition changes from day to day, pick the answer that is true on more than half of days, not just your best or worst day.

Only count something as a thing you can do if you can do it:

  • safely, without risk of harm to you or anyone else
  • to a good enough standard
  • again and again, as often as you need to
  • in a reasonable time, no more than about twice as long as someone without your condition

If pain, tiredness or a flare afterwards means you can't do it like this, count it as something you can't do.

Daily living activity 6 of 12 Dressing and undressing

This means choosing suitable clothes and putting them on and taking them off, including socks and shoes.

What this means

An aid or appliance is anything that helps you do the task, such as a perching stool, a grab rail or a long-handled sponge. It still counts if you need one but do not have one yet.

Prompting means someone reminding you, encouraging you or explaining what to do. Supervision means someone needs to be there to keep you safe. Help (or assistance) means someone physically doing part of it for you.

Think about most days, meaning more than half of the days over a year. If your condition changes from day to day, pick the answer that is true on more than half of days, not just your best or worst day.

Only count something as a thing you can do if you can do it:

  • safely, without risk of harm to you or anyone else
  • to a good enough standard
  • again and again, as often as you need to
  • in a reasonable time, no more than about twice as long as someone without your condition

If pain, tiredness or a flare afterwards means you can't do it like this, count it as something you can't do.

Daily living activity 7 of 12 Talking, listening and understanding

This means speaking to people and understanding what they say to you, in your own language.

What this means

Communication support means help from someone trained, such as a sign language interpreter, or from someone who knows you well and helps you understand or be understood.

Think about most days, meaning more than half of the days over a year. If your condition changes from day to day, pick the answer that is true on more than half of days, not just your best or worst day.

Only count something as a thing you can do if you can do it:

  • safely, without risk of harm to you or anyone else
  • to a good enough standard
  • again and again, as often as you need to
  • in a reasonable time, no more than about twice as long as someone without your condition

If pain, tiredness or a flare afterwards means you can't do it like this, count it as something you can't do.

Daily living activity 8 of 12 Reading and understanding

This means reading and understanding signs, symbols and written words in your own language, in normal size print.

What this means

Prompting means someone reminding you, encouraging you or explaining what to do. Supervision means someone needs to be there to keep you safe. Help (or assistance) means someone physically doing part of it for you.

Think about most days, meaning more than half of the days over a year. If your condition changes from day to day, pick the answer that is true on more than half of days, not just your best or worst day.

Only count something as a thing you can do if you can do it:

  • safely, without risk of harm to you or anyone else
  • to a good enough standard
  • again and again, as often as you need to
  • in a reasonable time, no more than about twice as long as someone without your condition

If pain, tiredness or a flare afterwards means you can't do it like this, count it as something you can't do.

Daily living activity 9 of 12 Mixing with other people

This means meeting people face to face, talking with them, understanding their body language and building relationships.

What this means

Social support means help from someone trained or someone who knows you well, who needs to be there to help you mix with people.

Prompting means someone reminding you, encouraging you or explaining what to do. Supervision means someone needs to be there to keep you safe. Help (or assistance) means someone physically doing part of it for you.

Think about most days, meaning more than half of the days over a year. If your condition changes from day to day, pick the answer that is true on more than half of days, not just your best or worst day.

Only count something as a thing you can do if you can do it:

  • safely, without risk of harm to you or anyone else
  • to a good enough standard
  • again and again, as often as you need to
  • in a reasonable time, no more than about twice as long as someone without your condition

If pain, tiredness or a flare afterwards means you can't do it like this, count it as something you can't do.

Daily living activity 10 of 12 Managing money

This means working out the cost of things, handling change, and planning a budget and paying bills.

What this means

Prompting means someone reminding you, encouraging you or explaining what to do. Supervision means someone needs to be there to keep you safe. Help (or assistance) means someone physically doing part of it for you.

Think about most days, meaning more than half of the days over a year. If your condition changes from day to day, pick the answer that is true on more than half of days, not just your best or worst day.

Only count something as a thing you can do if you can do it:

  • safely, without risk of harm to you or anyone else
  • to a good enough standard
  • again and again, as often as you need to
  • in a reasonable time, no more than about twice as long as someone without your condition

If pain, tiredness or a flare afterwards means you can't do it like this, count it as something you can't do.

Mobility activity 11 of 12 Planning and following a journey

This is about mental, thinking and sensory difficulties, such as anxiety, memory problems, brain fog or sight loss. Physical difficulty walking is covered in the next question.

What this means

A navigation aid is something like a guide cane or a specialist device. An ordinary map or phone map does not count.

Prompting means someone reminding you, encouraging you or explaining what to do. Supervision means someone needs to be there to keep you safe. Help (or assistance) means someone physically doing part of it for you.

Think about most days, meaning more than half of the days over a year. If your condition changes from day to day, pick the answer that is true on more than half of days, not just your best or worst day.

Only count something as a thing you can do if you can do it:

  • safely, without risk of harm to you or anyone else
  • to a good enough standard
  • again and again, as often as you need to
  • in a reasonable time, no more than about twice as long as someone without your condition

If pain, tiredness or a flare afterwards means you can't do it like this, count it as something you can't do.

Mobility activity 12 of 12 Moving around

This means standing up and then walking (or moving) outdoors on flat ground. As a guide, 20 metres is about the length of two cars parked end to end with a gap, 50 metres is the length of an Olympic swimming pool, and 200 metres is about two football pitches.

What this means

An aid here means something like a walking stick, crutches or a walking frame. If you use a manual wheelchair because you cannot walk far, count how far you can walk, not how far you can wheel.

Think about most days, meaning more than half of the days over a year. If your condition changes from day to day, pick the answer that is true on more than half of days, not just your best or worst day.

Only count something as a thing you can do if you can do it:

  • safely, without risk of harm to you or anyone else
  • to a good enough standard
  • again and again, as often as you need to
  • in a reasonable time, no more than about twice as long as someone without your condition

If pain, tiredness or a flare afterwards means you can't do it like this, count it as something you can't do.

How PIP points work

PIP has two parts. The daily living part looks at 10 activities, and the mobility part looks at 2. Each activity has a list of statements worth between 0 and 12 points. Only the highest statement that applies in each activity counts.

You need 8 points in a part to get the standard rate, and 12 points to get the enhanced rate. You can get one part, both parts, or neither.

Read the 12 activities explained for more detail and examples.