Personal Independence Payment: Young People
(asked on 26th February 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government, in the current and each of the last four financial years, how many 16–24 year olds are receiving personal independence payments at (1) the lower rate for daily living, (2) the higher rate for daily living, (3) the lower rate for mobility, and (4) the higher rate for mobility; and of those, how many have depression and anxiety as the primary reason for receiving that benefit.
The table below shows the number of claimants aged 16-24 receiving the different award types for both daily living and mobility components of Personal Independence Payment (PIP), and for those aged 16-24 whose primary condition was Anxiety or Depression.
Table 1: Number of claimants aged 16-24 years receiving PIP in England and Wales by award rate for Daily Living and Mobility, split by all medical conditions and Anxiety and Depression only.
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| 2020_21 | 2021_22 | 2022_23 | 2023_24 | 2024_25* | |||||
DL | Mob | All | A&D | All | A&D | All | A&D | All | A&D | All | A&D |
Enh | Enh | 111,700 | 4,800 | 132,900 | 6,900 | 164,600 | 10,300 | 196,700 | 14,000 | 216,500 | 16,400 |
Std | 39,200 | 5,400 | 45,100 | 7,400 | 53,300 | 10,700 | 63,300 | 15,200 | 70,400 | 18,200 | |
Nil | 16,500 | 3,300 | 15,200 | 3,200 | 15,300 | 3,500 | 14,700 | 3,700 | 14,700 | 3,800 | |
Std | Enh | 8,100 | 1,100 | 9,100 | 1,200 | 10,800 | 1,600 | 12,200 | 1,900 | 13,300 | 2,100 |
Std | 15,900 | 3,300 | 16,900 | 3,600 | 19,200 | 4,800 | 21,600 | 6,100 | 23,500 | 6,900 | |
Nil | 25,600 | 7,900 | 25,600 | 8,300 | 26,800 | 9,100 | 27,300 | 9,700 | 27,900 | 9,900 | |
Nil | Enh | 4,700 | 400 | 5,400 | 500 | 6,700 | 800 | 7,900 | 1,000 | 8,900 | 1,200 |
Std | 3,600 | 800 | 4,000 | 1,000 | 5,400 | 1,700 | 7,000 | 2,400 | 8,600 | 3,000 | |
Notes:
- Data source: Stat-Xplore.
- Data is for England and Wales only.
- Data is for March of each financial year apart from the 2024_25 financial year which is for October 2024, the latest published data.
- A&D refers to Anxiety and Depression.
- In line with previously published analysis, to calculate cases with primary condition Anxiety and Depression we included the Stat-Xplore categories: ‘Stress reactions’, ‘Anxiety disorders’, ‘Obsessive compulsive disorder’, ‘Mixed anxiety and depressive disorders’ and ‘Mood disorders’.
- Data has been rounded to the nearest 100.
- DL refers to Daily Living component of PIP.
- Mob refers to the Mobility component of PIP.
- Enh refers to the Enhanced award rate which is the highest Daily Living or Mobility award.
- Std refers to the Standard award rate which is the lowest Daily Living or Mobility award.
- Nil refers to when a claimant does not receive that award for Daily Living or Mobility award.