DWP help is available for people with one of 70 health conditions. A total of £687 a month is paid out in PIPs to hundreds of thousands of people in the UK.

Those with one of the 70 neurological conditions below should contact the Department of Work and Pensions for support. A total of £171.75 is paid out every every seven days.

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is a state benefit. It is distributed to help people if they have a long-term physical or mental health condition.

It also offers help to those with a disability and difficulty doing certain everyday tasks. The most recent statistics show that a total of 416,439 people are claiming PIP from the DWP for neurological conditions. Now our friends at Lancashire Live have compiled a full list of all the conditions for which people can claim help.

But do note. A claimant’s condition will be recorded during the DWP assessment. The categories and groupings below are based on DWP data.

The neurological conditions supported with PIP

Epilepsy

  • Partial seizures (with status epilepticus in last 12 months)
  • Generalised seizures (with status epilepticus in last 12 months)
  • Narcolepsy
  • Cataplexy
  • Seizures - unclassified
  • Generalised seizures (without status epilepticus in last 12 months)
  • Partial seizures (without status epilepticus in last 12 months)

Movement disorders

  • Movement disorders - Other / type not known
  • Parkinson's syndrome / Parkinsonism
  • Tourette's syndrome
  • Writer's cramp
  • Torticollis
  • Essential tremor - benign
  • Blepharospasm
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Huntington's disease

Non epileptic disturbance of consciousness

  • Stokes Adams attacks (cardiovascular syncope)
  • Non epileptic Attack disorder (pseudoseizures)
  • Disturbances of consciousness - Non-epileptic - Other / type not known
  • Syncope - Other / type not known
  • Drop attacks

Multiple sclerosis

Benign tumours

  • Neurofibromatosis
  • Tumours - benign - Other / type not known

Cerebrovascular disease

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  • Cerebrovascular accident (stroke)

Head injury

  • Head injury - Cognitive impairment

  • Head injury - Cognitive and sensorimotor impairment
  • Head injury - Sensorimotor impairment

Hydrocephalus

Headache

  • Headache - Other causes of / cause not known
  • Migraine

  • Dizziness - cause not specified

Degenerative neuronal diseases

  • Degenerative neuronal diseases - Other / type not known
  • Motor neurone disease

Spinal cord compression

  • Spinal cord compression - Other causes of / cause not known
  • Syringomyelia / Syringobulbia
  • Tetraplegia (traumatic)

  • Paraplegia (traumatic)

Cerebral palsy

  • Cerebral palsy - Ataxic
  • Cerebral palsy - Quadriplegic
  • Cerebral palsy - Hemiplegic
  • Cerebral palsy - Athetoid
  • Cerebral palsy - Diplegic
  • Cerebral palsy - Other / type not known

Neuropathy

  • Guillain Barre syndrome
  • Charcot Marie Tooth disease
  • Diabetic neuropathy
  • Neuropathies - Other / type not known including peripheral

Spina bifida

Ataxia

  • Ataxia - Friedrich's
  • Ataxias - Other / type not known

Disease of muscle

  • Dermatomyositis
  • Myasthenia gravis
  • Polymyositis
  • Dystrophia myotonica
  • Muscle - Other diseases of / type not known

Peripheral nerve injury

  • Brachial plexus
  • Peripheral nerve injury - Other / type not known

Muscular dystrophy

  • Muscular dystrophy - Other / type not known
  • Muscular dystrophy - Duchenne
  • Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy
  • Muscular dystrophy - limb girdle
  • Muscular dystrophy - Becker type

Infections

  • Poliomyelitis and post polio syndrome
  • Creutzfeldt - Jacob disease (CJD)
  • Prion diseases - Other / type not known
  • Infections - Other

Other neurological disorders

  • Neurological disorders - Other / type not known