The Short Answer
A PIP calculator by condition answers the question every diagnosis-holder actually asks: what could my condition score, and what is that worth. Four tools run now: the back pay, points, rates and DLA transfer calculators, each producing a figure in under two minutes. Condition-specific calculators, from anxiety to lupus, publish in later waves; until then the points calculator scores every condition through the same 12 activities.
Condition Calculators in Detail
Condition calculators pre-map a diagnosis onto the activities where it typically scores, then run the same official descriptors as the main points tool. No condition scores by name: every point comes from a descriptor in Schedule 1 of the PIP Regulations 2013, and 8 points in a component pays the standard rate while 12 pays the enhanced rate. The planned directory, by category, with each tool linked as it publishes:
- Mental health: PIP for Anxiety · PIP for Depression · PIP for Mental Health · PIP for ADHD · PIP for Autism · PIP for PTSD · PIP for Bipolar Disorder · PIP for OCD · PIP for Schizophrenia
- Musculoskeletal and pain: PIP for Fibromyalgia · PIP for Arthritis · PIP for Osteoarthritis · PIP for Rheumatoid Arthritis · PIP for Back Pain · PIP for Sciatica · PIP for Chronic Pain · PIP for Hypermobility & EDS
- Neurological: PIP for Multiple Sclerosis · PIP for Epilepsy · PIP for Migraines · PIP for Parkinson's Disease · PIP for Stroke
- Digestive, respiratory and cardiovascular: PIP for Crohn's Disease · PIP for IBS · PIP for COPD · PIP for Asthma · PIP for Diabetes · PIP for Heart Conditions
- Sensory, developmental and other: PIP for Cancer · PIP for ME/CFS · PIP for Hearing Loss · PIP for Visual Impairment · PIP for Learning Disabilities · PIP for Dyspraxia · PIP for Endometriosis · PIP for Lupus
Each category concentrates its points in a predictable set of activities, and the mapping below is the starting layer every condition tool in that category builds on:
| Category | Activities where points typically land |
|---|---|
| Mental health | Engaging with other people; planning and following journeys; prompting across daily living tasks |
| Musculoskeletal and pain | Moving around; washing and bathing; dressing; preparing food |
| Neurological | Both mobility activities; managing therapy; washing; communicating |
| Digestive, respiratory and cardiovascular | Managing toilet needs; taking nutrition; managing therapy; moving around |
| Sensory, developmental and other | Communicating; reading; engaging with other people; making budgeting decisions |
Two principles hold across every entry. The scoring never changes: each condition tool applies the same descriptors, thresholds and rates as the main calculator, because the law scores difficulty, not diagnosis. And the mapping is guidance, not destiny: a condition's typical activities are a starting point, and your own answers decide the score. How each condition tends to score is catalogued in the conditions list, and further tools for payments and uprating join the directory in later waves.
Choosing between the live tools
The four live calculators divide the territory by the fact you already hold. Holding dates and a decision, or waiting on one, points to the back pay calculator, which prices the arrears window at each year's rates. Holding difficulties but no award points to the points calculator, which scores the 12 activities with the official descriptors. Holding an award points to the rates calculator, which converts components into weekly, 4-weekly and yearly money. And holding an old DLA award beside a new PIP one points to the DLA transfer tool.
The tools chain naturally because each one's output is the next one's input. A points score implies an award; the award converts to rates; the rates price a back-pay window. Running all three in sequence turns a difficulties-only starting point into a full money picture in under ten minutes, every figure at the current verified rates.
How the condition calculators will work
Each condition calculator pairs the standard descriptor picker with a condition-specific layer: the activities that condition most often affects come first, with prompts drawn from how its difficulties typically present. An anxiety tool leads with engaging with people and journeys; an arthritis tool leads with preparing food, washing and moving around. The output is identical to the main tool, points, award and money, because the layer changes the order of questions, never the scoring.
The design keeps a promise the directory's honesty depends on: no condition tool will ever claim its condition scores differently, qualifies automatically, or carries a preset award. The layer exists to make self-scoring faster and more complete for that condition's typical pattern, nothing more.
What every tool here promises
Five commitments hold across the directory, present and future. Every tool is free, with no sign-up and no data leaving your browser. Every figure comes from the official sources, generated rather than typed, and stamped with its verification date. Every tool states its method beneath the interface. Every result is an estimate, clearly marked, never a decision. And every calculator that joins the directory passes the same tests before it ships, because a wrong number on one tool would poison trust in all of them.
The directory's structure mirrors how people actually search: by condition first and mechanism second. Someone searching for a fibromyalgia calculator and someone searching for a points calculator want the same arithmetic through different doors, and the directory's job is making sure both doors exist. That is also why the hub lists tools by condition category rather than by engine: the four engines behind the directory stay few and tested, while the doors multiply with each wave.
Bookmarking the directory beats bookmarking any single tool, because this page is where new calculators surface first. Each wave's additions appear here on publication day, linked from their pending markers, and the four live tools keep their places at the top of the page throughout.
Whatever your starting point, the right first tool is one screen away, and the wrong choice costs nothing: every calculator links to its neighbours.
Work Out Your Number
Nothing about a condition calculator is required to get your number today. The four live tools above score the same descriptors, and the same four GOV.UK rates power all of them.
Nothing about a condition calculator is required to get your number today. Work out your condition calculators answer with the four live tools above, starting from whichever fact you already hold: dates, difficulties or award.
The directory grows on the same wave plan as the rest of the site, mental health and musculoskeletal tools first, and each new calculator appears in the grouped list above as its pending marker resolves into a link. Between waves, the combination worth bookmarking is the points calculator plus the conditions list: the first scores any condition today, and the second shows where your condition typically lands its points. Together they do most of what any single condition tool will do, at the cost of choosing your own starting activities.
Every calculator's arithmetic is documented beneath it, and the same four rates from GOV.UK power the whole directory: £76.70 and £114.60 for daily living, £30.30 and £80.00 for mobility in 2026/27.
Last checked: 6 August 2026