What other benefits can I claim with PIP? GOV.UK says you can get PIP at the same time as all other benefits, except Armed Forces Independence Payment, and the amount of PIP is not affected by your income or savings. A PIP award can also make you, or someone who cares for you, eligible for other help. This guide explains how PIP works alongside Universal Credit, Carer's Allowance, the disability premiums and other schemes.
Key points
✓You can get PIP at the same time as all other benefits, except Armed Forces Independence Payment.
✓If you, your partner or a child under 18 living with you gets PIP, the benefit cap does not apply to you.
✓The Universal Credit extra amount for limited capability for work and work-related activity is decided using a Work Capability Assessment, which you will not need if you are nearing the end of your life.
✓Someone who cares for you for at least 35 hours a week may get Carer's Allowance if you get the PIP daily living part.
✓The PIP daily living part is a qualifying benefit for the severe disability premium, paid with some older means-tested benefits.
PIP and Universal Credit
If you claim Universal Credit, you continue getting other benefits you already receive, such as PIP.
GOV.UK lists the benefits that reduce your Universal Credit payment by an amount equal to the other benefit, including Carer's Allowance, Maternity Allowance, State Pension and New Style ESA and JSA. PIP is not on that list.
The Universal Credit Regulations 2013 list the benefits that count as unearned income in regulation 66, including Jobseeker's Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance, Carer's Allowance and Maternity Allowance. PIP is not named there.
You're not affected by the benefit cap if you, your partner or any children under 18 living with you get PIP.
The Work Capability Assessment is to help decide how much your health condition or disability limits your capability to work, and a health professional reviews your medical evidence as part of it. See our LCWRA guide for the full rules.
If you are found to have limited capability for work and work-related activity, the extra monthly amount is £429.80 if your condition is severe and unlikely to change or you are nearing the end of life, or £217.26 if it is assessed as less severe or may improve. Different rules apply if you reported a health condition before 6 April 2026.
An extra £158.76 a month for limited capability for work is only possible if your health-related Universal Credit or ESA claim started before 3 April 2017.
If you get Universal Credit, you must report any change of circumstances straight away. Our Universal Credit guide has more. Our LCWRA guide explains the extra amount for health conditions.
PIP and Carer's Allowance
Carer's Allowance is £86.45 a week for someone who cares for you at least 35 hours a week, if you get a qualifying benefit such as the PIP daily living part.
The carer must meet the other conditions, including earning £204 or less a week after tax, National Insurance and expenses.
In Scotland, carers apply for Carer Support Payment instead of Carer's Allowance.
Getting PIP yourself does not stop you claiming Carer's Allowance for someone you care for: you can get PIP at the same time as all other benefits except Armed Forces Independence Payment.
Disability premiums are extra amounts paid with some older means-tested benefits:
You may get a top-up called a disability premium if you get income-related ESA or Housing Benefit.
The severe disability premium is £86.05 a week for a single person. You must get the disability premium or income-related ESA, and a qualifying benefit such as the PIP daily living part.
✗No: You cannot get the severe disability premium if someone gets Carer's Allowance, the carers element of Universal Credit or Carer Support Payment for looking after you.
PIP and State Pension age
✗No: If you're over State Pension age, you cannot usually make a new claim for PIP. You can apply for Attendance Allowance instead.
✓Yes: You can make a new claim for PIP if you got PIP or Adult Disability Payment in the last 12 months.
✓Yes: If you were entitled to PIP on the day before you reached State Pension age, your award can continue. See our PIP review guide for the mobility rule after that age.
PIP and DLA
DLA is being replaced by PIP for most adults.
You keep getting DLA if you're under 16, or you were born on or before 8 April 1948.
If you were born after 8 April 1948, DWP will invite you to apply for PIP.
DWP's PIP statistics for July 2026 say that new invitations to claim PIP for working age DLA claimants are not currently being sent out. See our DLA to PIP guide, our DLA for adults guide and all benefits guides.
Other help a PIP award can make you eligible for
✓Yes: Blue Badge (England): eligible if you get PIP because you cannot walk more than 50 metres, shown by 8 points or more in the moving around activity, or if you got 10 points for descriptor E of planning and following journeys
✓Yes: Vehicle tax: a 50% reduction with the PIP standard rate mobility part, or exemption with the enhanced rate mobility part
✓Yes: Motability Scheme vehicle: if you get the higher mobility rate
✓Yes: Disabled Persons Railcard: if you get either part of PIP
✓Yes: Council Tax and local bus travel: you may be able to get a discount; contact your local council
✓Yes: Christmas Bonus: PIP is a qualifying benefit for the one-off tax-free £10 payment made before Christmas
Council Tax also has a Disabled Band Reduction Scheme: you may be eligible if you live in a larger property than you would need if you or another occupant were not disabled. If you qualify, your bill is reduced to the next lowest band.
PIP and working
✓Yes: You can get PIP if you're working or have savings
✓Yes: The amount you get is not affected by your income or savings
GOV.UK says you can get PIP at the same time as all other benefits, except Armed Forces Independence Payment. A PIP award can also make you eligible for other help, such as exemption from the benefit cap, a Blue Badge or vehicle tax reduction through the mobility part, a Disabled Persons Railcard, and Carer's Allowance for someone who cares for you.
Can I claim PIP and Universal Credit at the same time?
Yes. If you claim Universal Credit you continue getting other benefits you already receive, such as PIP. Getting PIP means the benefit cap does not apply. The Universal Credit extra amount for limited capability for work and work-related activity is decided using a Work Capability Assessment, which you will not need if you are nearing the end of your life.
Does PIP stop the benefit cap?
Yes. GOV.UK says you're not affected by the benefit cap if you, your partner or any children under 18 living with you get Personal Independence Payment.
Can someone claim Carer's Allowance for me if I receive PIP?
They may be able to, if you get the PIP daily living part and they care for you at least 35 hours a week. Carer's Allowance is £86.45 a week, and their earnings must be £204 or less a week after tax, National Insurance and expenses. In Scotland, carers apply for Carer Support Payment instead.
Know Your Rights UK. "What Other Benefits Can I Claim With PIP? (2026)." Know Your Rights UK, https://www.knowyourrightsuk.com/benefits/pip/pip-and-other-benefits