The Short Answer
Hypermobility & EDS scores PIP points through the activities it limits, not through the diagnosis. The assessment turns on grip, joint instability and the risk of falls. Eight points in a component pays the standard rate and 12 pays the enhanced rate. The calculator above is pre-filtered to the activities whose published guidance names the functions hypermobility and EDS is reported to affect.
How Hypermobility & EDS Scores PIP Points
Each activity below is on the list for a stated reason, and the source is quoted beneath the table. Descriptor letters and point values come verbatim from Schedule 1 of the PIP Regulations 2013, and the 8 and 12-point thresholds come from regulations 5(3) and 6(3).
| Activity | What it assesses | Descriptors typically engaged | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily living 1 — Preparing food | preparing and cooking a simple meal, including chopping and peeling, which turns on grip and dexterity | b, c | 2 |
| Daily living 6 — Dressing and undressing | dressing and undressing, which involves stretching, reaching, bending and gripping | b, d, e | 2–4 |
| Daily living 4 — Washing and bathing | washing and bathing, including balance and getting in and out of a bath or shower | b, c, e | 2–3 |
| Mobility 2 — Moving around | standing and then moving, including gait, speed and the risk of falls | b, c | 4–8 |
| Daily living 3 — Managing therapy or monitoring a health condition | managing therapy at home, including physiotherapy regimes, bracing and joint protection | b, c | 1–2 |
| Daily living 2 — Taking nutrition | taking nutrition, including where an aid is needed to hold or cut with cutlery | b | 2 |
| Daily living 5 — Managing toilet needs or incontinence | managing toilet needs, including where an aid or rail is needed | b | 2 |
Last checked: 7 August 2026
Where this mapping comes from
Descriptor letters and point values are reproduced from Schedule 1 of the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013. The activities listed are the ones whose published assessment guidance names the functions this condition is reported to affect. No activity is listed on any other basis.
Activities are numbered as Schedule 1 numbers them, within each component: daily living 1 to 10 and mobility 1 to 2.
- DWP PIP Assessment Guide, activity 1: “For example, if a claimant cannot chop vegetables without an aid due to weakness in their hands, then it would be expected that they would struggle to undertake other activities requiring similar dexterity.”
- DWP PIP Assessment Guide, activity 6: “Dressing and undressing may involve stretching, reaching, bending, gripping and other such movements.”
- DWP PIP Assessment Guide, activity 4: “Consideration should be given to the claimant's functional restrictions to see if they: could reasonably use an aid such as a grab rail to get in or out of an unadapted bath or shower (4B) or whether they require assistance (4E) to get in and out of an unadapted bath or shower.”
- DWP PIP Assessment Guide, activity 12: “This includes, but is not limited to, the claimant's gait, their speed, the risk of falls and symptoms or side effects that could affect their ability to complete the activity, such as pain, breathlessness and fatigue.”
- DWP PIP Assessment Guide, activity 3: “Examples of therapy include physiotherapy, home dialysis and special diets where both attention to the nature and timing of food is integral in the management of the diet.”
- DWP PIP Assessment Guide, activity 2: “The frequency of taking nutrition should only be considered if the claimant has an underlying condition which affects their ability to remember to eat, or their motivation to eat e.g. dementia or severe clinical depression or an eating disorder.”
- DWP PIP Assessment Guide, activity 5: “This activity considers a claimant's ability to get on and off the toilet, to manage evacuation of the bladder and/or bowel and to clean afterwards.”
Points are added within each component, never across the two. The PIP points calculator scores all 12 activities where the picture is wider than the ones above.
Can You Get PIP for Hypermobility & EDS?
Yes, where hypermobility and EDS limits the assessed activities on more than half of the days over a 12-month period. No condition qualifies by name, and none is excluded by name either. The two tests are duration — difficulties expected to last at least 12 months from when they started — and frequency, which GOV.UK states as difficulty "more than half of the days over a 12-month period".
What Rate Could Hypermobility & EDS Get?
The rate follows the points in each component separately. Daily living pays £76.70 a week at the standard rate and £114.60 at the enhanced rate. Mobility pays £30.30 and £80.00, and the highest combined award is £194.60 a week.
Last checked: 6 August 2026
For this condition the points most often come from the dexterity read-across, where one grip difficulty engages cooking, dressing and taking nutrition together.
Why Grip and Falls Are the Two Scoring Routes
Hypermobility affects the same functions across many joints, and the assessment guidance builds that read-across in. It states that "if a claimant cannot chop vegetables without an aid due to weakness in their hands, then it would be expected that they would struggle to undertake other activities requiring similar dexterity". Grip that fails on a knife also fails on buttons, taps and cutlery, and describing all four consistently is what a decision maker can score.
The falls risk is scored on the physical mobility activity. The guide states that moving around includes "the claimant's gait, their speed, the risk of falls and symptoms or side effects that could affect their ability to complete the activity". Joint instability that produces a giving-way knee is a gait and falls point, not a footnote.
Aids carry more of these claims than assistance does. The guide describes aids and appliances as "devices which improve, provide or replace the claimant's impaired physical or mental function", and gives walking sticks, grab rails and wheelchairs as examples. Splints, braces, a perching stool and adapted cutlery all sit inside that definition and each scores 2 points in its activity.
Fatigue and autonomic symptoms are captured through reliability rather than through a descriptor of their own. The guide requires consideration of whether an activity can be repeated "within a reasonable period of time and to the same standard", and names fatigue among the symptoms to weigh. A task completed while dizzy, and paid for afterwards, has not been completed reliably.
Evidence That Supports a Hypermobility & EDS Claim
Evidence that names the activity beats evidence that names the diagnosis. Every descriptor above 0 points already assumes the condition is present.
- A rheumatology, genetics or hypermobility clinic letter recording the diagnosis and the criteria applied
- A Beighton score recorded in a clinical letter
- A physiotherapy referral or discharge letter, with the joint protection or strengthening regime
- A record of subluxations or dislocations, including any A&E attendance or relocation
- An occupational therapy assessment listing splints, braces, aids and adaptations
- A dated log of the joints affected on each day, and what each one prevented
Send what you already have rather than waiting for a new report. Evidence describing what you can do on an ordinary day answers the descriptors; the assessment weighs it against the reliability criteria.
Work Out the Full Picture
The tool above is pre-filtered; the assessment is not. All 12 activities are scored — 10 for daily living and 2 for mobility, set out in Schedule 1 of the PIP Regulations 2013 — and points from the two components never combine.
Two tools finish the picture:
- Score every activity in the PIP points calculator, which uses the same verbatim descriptors.
- Compare the pre-filtered tools on the all condition calculators page.
Where an award is already in place and was backdated, the work out your pip back pay tool prices the arrears.
The condition guide, covering evidence and the assessment in full, is on check pip for hypermobility & eds.