In some Welsh neighbourhoods 30% of individuals obtain PIP
We will reveal the variety of individuals receiving PIP (private independence funds) in every neighbourhood in Wales. There have been greater than 3.7m individuals in receipt of PIP throughout England and Wales in April 2025, in response to the newest figures from the Division for Work and Pensions (DWP).
However these individuals aren’t evenly distributed throughout the nation with some areas dwelling to extra individuals in want of the profit. A lot of small areas of Wales – identified formally as center layer tremendous output areas – have a number of the highest proportion of working-age individuals in want of PIP.
One instance is Rhyl North, the place there have been 1,666 individuals in receipt of PIP inside that neighbourhood alone as of April 2025, in response to the DWP’s figures. An estimated 5,566 individuals aged between 16 and 64 have been residing within the space right now.
Meaning round 30% of working-age individuals within the space have been in receipt of PIP as of this spring, which is the joint-seventh-highest proportion of any neighbourhood in England and Wales.
In Neath City, in the meantime, a complete of 1,084 individuals have been in receipt of PIP in April. That works out as 27% of the native working-age inhabitants.
Sandfields in Neath Port Talbot had 1,560 individuals in receipt of PIP, which additionally works out as an estimated 27% of the working-age inhabitants, as does the 1,413 individuals of Hirwaun and Rhigos in Rhondda Cynon Taf.
Based on the Welsh Authorities PIP may also help with additional residing prices when you have each a long-term bodily or psychological well being situation or incapacity and problem doing sure on a regular basis duties or getting round due to your situation.
How a lot PIP you get is determined by how tough you discover on a regular basis actions and getting round.
These receiving PIP for help with each day actions obtain £73.90 per week if on the decrease fee or £110.40 if entitled to the upper fee.
These receiving PIP for help with mobility can obtain £29.20 per week if on the decrease fee or £77.05 if entitled to the upper fee. PIP is tax-free.
You may get PIP in case you’re 16 or over with a long-term bodily or psychological well being situation or incapacity, you will have problem doing sure on a regular basis duties or getting round, and also you count on these difficulties to final for at the least 12 months from after they began.
You should even be beneath state pension age in case you’ve not acquired PIP earlier than.
The proportion of working-age individuals receiving PIP in every neighbourhood are solely estimates as a result of discrepancies between the neighbourhood boundaries utilized by the DWP and Workplace for Nationwide Statistics (ONS).
The DWP makes use of out-of-date 2011 neighbourhood boundaries for its advantages knowledge whereas the ONS makes use of 2021 boundaries for its inhabitants figures. Meaning a conversion has needed to be utilized to the boundaries which means the proportion is probably not correct and may simply be taken as an estimate.
You may see the figures to your neighbourhood through the use of the postcode search on our interactive map right here:
