PIP Mobility rate 2026/27

The Mobility component has two activities: planning and following a journey, and moving around (the 20-metre rule). Enhanced Mobility is what unlocks Motability and the automatic Blue Badge route.

All figures on this page are taken from Benefit and pension rates 2026 to 2027 (DWP, published April 2026) and the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Act 2025. Author: Oliver Wakefield-Smith. Last full review: 22 June 2026. Next scheduled review: April 2027 (post-uprating). See the full sources register.
Mobility / Standard
£29.20
per week
4-week cycle£116.80
Points needed8
Mobility / Enhanced
£77.05
per week
4-week cycle£308.20
Points needed12

The 20-metre rule

If you can stand and then move more than 1 metre but no more than 20 metres, descriptor e of Moving Around applies and scores 12 points: enhanced Mobility. The rule is contested by disability charities and welfare-rights groups because it draws an arbitrary line at 20 metres.

The reliability test applies. If you can sometimes walk 30 metres but cannot do so safely or repeatedly more than half the time, the lower distance descriptor applies.

The two Mobility activities

  1. Mobility Activity 1: Planning and following journeys
  2. Mobility Activity 2: Moving around

Conversions for 2026/27

TierPer weekPer 4-week DWP cyclePer year
Standard (8 points)£29.20£116.80£1,518.40
Enhanced (12 points)£77.05£308.20£4,006.60

What Mobility unlocks

MotabilityEnhanced only
Blue BadgeEnhanced Moving Around or 10pt Planning
Total unlock valueSee calculator

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