DWP paying £749 a month if you have one of these 87 muscle or joint conditions

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is a benefit designed for people who need extra help with everyday tasks due to an illness, disability or mental health condition.

It is worth up to £749.80 every four weeks and is paid by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). PIP is not an out of work benefit, so you may be eligible for PIP if you are currently in working.

How much you could get in PIP all depends on how your condition your health condition or disability affects your life. There is no set list of conditions that make you eligible for PIP.

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According to DWP data, there are more than one million adults who receive PIP for musculoskeletal conditions, out of the 3.7million who claim PIP overall.

Musculoskeletal conditions are injuries and disorders that affect the body's movement or musculoskeletal system such as muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves, discs and blood vessels

PIP is made up of two components - a daily living rate and a mobility rate - and you can be entitled to both or just one of these. If you are eligible for both the enhanced rate of the daily living allowance and the mobility allowance, you would receive £749.80 a month.

Daily Living

• Standard rate: £73.90 a week
• Enhanced rate: £110.40 a week

Mobility

• Standard rate: £29.20 a week
• Enhanced rate: £77.05 a week

List of 87 musculoskeletal conditions which could get you PIP

General conditions

Osteoarthritis

• Osteoarthritis of Hip
• Osteoarthritis of Knee
• Osteoarthritis of other single joint
• Primary generalised Osteoarthritis

Chronic pain syndrome

• Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)
• Fibromyalgia
• Pain syndromes - Chronic - Other / type not known

Inflammatory arthritis

• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Arthritis - Psoriatic
• Arthritis - Reactive
• Inflammatory arthritis - Other / type not known
• Juvenile chronic arthritis (Still's disease)
• Rheumatoid arthritis

Crystal deposition disorders

• Crystal deposition disorders - Other / type not known
• Gout
• Pseudogout

Osteonecrosis and osteochondritis

• Osteochondritis
• Osteonecrosis

Metabolic and endocrine disorders

• Osteomalacia
• Osteoporosis
• Other metabolic and endocrine disorders of musculoskeletal system
• Paget's disease
• Rickets

Genetic disorders, dysplasias and malformations

• Achondroplasia
• Epiphyseal dysplasia - multiple
• Genetic disorders, dysplasias and malformations - Other / type not known
• Hereditary multiple exostosis (diaphyseal aclasis)
• Hypermobility syndrome
• Marfan's syndrome
• Osteogenesis imperfecta

Benign tumours of bone

• Tumours of bone - benign

Fracture complications

• Compartment syndrome (Volkmann's ischaemia)
• Fracture complications - Other / type not known
• Sudek's atrophy
• Other generalised musculoskeletal conditions
• Generalised musculoskeletal disease - Other / type not known

Regional conditions

Shoulder disorders

• Adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)
• Rotator cuff disorder
• Shoulder disorders - Other / type not known
• Shoulder instability

Elbow disorders

• Elbow disorders - Other / type not known
• Golfers elbow (medial epicondylitis)
• Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis)

Wrist and hand disorders

• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Dupuytren's contracture
• Tendon lesions
• Tenosynovitis
• Wrist and hand disorders - Other / type not known

Neck disorders

• Cervical disc lesion
• Cervical spondylosis
• Neck disorders - Other / type not known
• Whiplash injury

Non specific back pain

• Back pain - Non specific (mechanical)

Specific back pain

• Back pain - Specific - Other / type not known
• Kyphosis
• Lumbar disc lesion
• Lumbar spondylosis (OA spine)
• Schuermann's disease
• Scoliosis
• Spinal stenosis
• Spondylolisthesis

Hip disorders

• Dislocation of the hip - congenital
• Hip disorders - Other / type not known
• Perthes disease
• Slipped upper femoral epiphysis

Knee disorders

• Bursitis
• Chondromalacia patellae
• Knee disorders - Other / type not known
• Ligamentous instability of knee
• Meniscal lesions
• Osgood schlatters disease
• Osteochondritis dissecans
• Patellar dislocation - Recurrent

Ankle and foot disorders

• Ankle and foot disorders - Other / type not known
• Club foot (talipes)
• Fore foot pain (Metatarsalgia)
• Hallux valgus /rigidus

Amputations

• Amputation - Lower limb(s)
• Amputation - Upper limb(s)
• Amputations - Upper & Lower limb/s

Injuries/fracture/Dislocation

• Abdomen - Injuries/Fracture/Dislocation of
• Lower limb - Injuries/Fracture/Dislocation of
• Multiple - Injuries/Fracture/Dislocation
• Pelvis - Injuries/Fracture/Dislocation of
• Spine - Injuries/Fracture/Dislocation of
• Thorax - Injury/Fracture/Dislocation of
• Upper limb - Injury/Fracture/Dislocation of

Other regional musculoskeletal disease

• Musculoskeletal disease - Regional / Localised - Other / type not known