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Free PIP extras checker · 2026What PIP unlocks: the extra help your award opens.
PIP is worth more than the weekly payment. Enter your award and see what it could unlock: a Blue Badge, a bus pass, Motability, vehicle tax help, a railcard, Carer’s Allowance for your carer and more.
- Blue Badge, bus pass, Motability, vehicle tax and more
- Based on your rates and points, not just your award
- Free, and nothing you choose is saved or sent
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Check what you could get
Enter your award from your decision letter. The list updates as you go.
- What your award unlocks, and what it doesn’t
- Which points matter for each one
- What to do next
Which award opens what.
Some help depends on your rate. Some depends on your points in a single activity.
| Help | What you need |
|---|---|
| Blue Badge | 8+ points for moving around, or descriptor E for planning journeys (England) |
| Free bus pass (England) | 8+ points for moving around or communicating verbally |
| Motability | Enhanced mobility, with at least 12 months of the award left |
| No vehicle tax | Enhanced mobility |
| 50% off vehicle tax | Standard mobility |
| Disabled Persons Railcard | Any PIP award |
| CEA cinema card | Any PIP award |
| Carer’s Allowance for your carer | Either rate of daily living, and 35+ hours of care a week |
| No benefit cap on Universal Credit | Any PIP award |
From GOV.UK and Department for Transport guidance. See financial help if you’re disabled on GOV.UK.
A higher award unlocks more.
8 points for moving around means a Blue Badge. 12 points means Motability. One activity can change everything.
We argue the points you should have had
Our mandatory reconsideration and tribunal letters take each disputed activity in turn, with your own examples and evidence.
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Compare the points you were given with the points you think fit, and see what winning would be worth.
How to claim each one.
Keep your award letter
Almost every scheme asks for your PIP decision letter showing your rates, and sometimes your points.
Tell your other benefits
Report your PIP to Universal Credit, Housing Benefit or Pension Credit. It can change what they pay.
Your carer claims separately
Carer’s Allowance is claimed by the person who cares for you, once your daily living award is in place.
Nothing is automatic
Councils, DVLA, Motability and others each need you to apply or tell them.
Tools for your claim.
What PIP unlocks: questions answered.
Depending on your award: a Blue Badge, a free bus pass, Motability, no or reduced vehicle tax, a Disabled Persons Railcard, a CEA cinema card, Carer’s Allowance for your carer, and exemption from the benefit cap.
No. Motability needs the enhanced rate of the mobility component, with at least 12 months of the award left. Standard mobility gives 50% off vehicle tax instead.
In England, if you have 8 or more points for moving around or for communicating verbally. Your council issues it. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own schemes.
Yes, if you get either rate of the daily living part and they care for you for 35 hours or more a week. It’s £86.45 a week in 2026/27.
PIP isn’t counted as income for Universal Credit, and getting it means your UC can’t be reduced by the benefit cap.
Yes. Any PIP award qualifies for a Disabled Persons Railcard, with a third off most fares for you and an adult travelling with you.
No. You need to apply or tell each organisation, usually with your PIP award letter.
Mostly, yes. ADP opens the same help, with Scotland’s own bus pass scheme and Carer Support Payment instead of Carer’s Allowance.
Award too low? Challenge it for £49.
A higher award can mean a Blue Badge, Motability and more. We write your mandatory reconsideration or tribunal letter in 48 hours.
This checker is a guide to what usually applies with a PIP award. Each scheme, council and organisation makes its own decision. Checked against GOV.UK and Department for Transport guidance in October 2026.