About piprates.co.uk
This is a one-person reference site, written by Oliver Wakefield-Smith and reviewed against DWP publications and the 2025 Act. It exists because the SERPs in early 2026 were full of stale 2024/25 figures and recycled chatter about the 4-point rule (which was removed from the Bill in July 2025).
Who I am
I'm Oliver Wakefield-Smith, founder of Digital Signet. I research and build single-purpose reference sites for UK consumer questions where the existing SERPs are stale, vague, or unsourced. Before Digital Signet I led product at several UK SaaS companies. I do not have a welfare-rights professional qualification; for advice on your own claim, please contact Citizens Advice, Scope or a welfare-rights service.
Why this site exists
The buyer I had in mind when building this is a 52-year-old fibromyalgia claimant in Manchester whose PIP2 form was due in nine days. She wanted four 2026/27 weekly figures she could trust, a place to read about the 20-metre rule without scrolling past a pop-up, and a print-friendly summary to take to her Citizens Advice adviser. Everything on the site is shaped to that brief: calm, scannable, dated, screenshot-ready.
How it's funded
piprates.co.uk is funded by Digital Signet. We do not take affiliate revenue from third-party benefits services. We do not advertise. We do not collect personal data. The estimator runs entirely client-side; nothing you select is stored or sent.
How often it's reviewed
- Full review: at every April uprating (the next is April 2027).
- Spot review: any time a relevant Act, Statutory Instrument, or DWP publication is released.
- The current verification date is shown on every page in the source-of-record banner.
What we do not do
- We do not contact DWP on your behalf.
- We do not fill in PIP2 forms or appeal letters.
- We do not provide individual welfare-rights advice.
- We do not endorse any third-party benefits calculator, claim-management firm, or solicitor.
Contact
For corrections, send the page URL and the source we should use to hello@digitalsignet.com. Verified errors are corrected within 48 hours.