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People with any of these 70 conditions will get 156 a week from DWP

384,832 people receiving support through PIP for 70 neurological conditions

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156 given to people with neurological conditions

People with neurological conditions could receive up to 156 each week from the Department for Work and Pensions.

Latest DWP figures show that at the end of April, there were nearly three million people across the UK claiming support through Personal Independence Payments (PIP), with just over one in three claimants (35%) receiving the highest level of award. The data also revealed there are now 384,832 people receiving support through PIP for 70 neurological conditions, the Daily Record reports.

This includes some 317,000 thousand people in England. Below is a list of 70 neurological conditions being supported through PIP. A claimants main disabling or medical condition is recorded during their assessment. The categories and groupings are based on DWP data.

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Neurological conditions supported through PIP

Cerebrovascular disease

• Cerebrovascular accident (stroke)
• Cerebrovascular disease - Other / type not known
• Transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs)

Epilepsy

• Cataplexy
• Generalised seizures (with status epilepticus in last 12 months)
• Generalised seizures (without status epilepticus in last 12 months)
• Narcolepsy
• Partial seizures (with status epilepticus in last 12 months)
• Partial seizures (without status epilepticus in last 12 months)
• Seizures - unclassified

Non epileptic disturbance of consciousness

• Disturbances of consciousness - Non-epileptic - Other / type not known
• Drop attacks
• Non epileptic Attack disorder (pseudoseizures)
• Stokes Adams attacks (cardiovascular syncope)
• Syncope - Other / type not known

Movement disorders

• Blepharospasm
• Essential tremor - benign
• Huntington's disease
• Movement disorders - Other / type not known
• Parkinson's disease
• Parkinson's syndrome / Parkinsonism
• Torticollis
• Tourette's syndrome
• Writer's cramp

Multiple sclerosis

Benign tumours

• Neurofibromatosis
• Tumours - benign - Other / type not known

Hydrocephalus

Headache

• Dizziness - cause not specified
• Headache - Other causes of / cause not known
• Migraine

Head injury

• Head injury - Cognitive and sensorimotor impairment
• Head injury - Cognitive impairment
• Head injury - Sensorimotor impairment

Spinal cord compression

• Paraplegia (traumatic)
• Spinal cord compression - Other causes of / cause not known
• Syringomyelia / Syringobulbia
• Tetraplegia (traumatic)

Degenerative neuronal diseases

• Degenerative neuronal diseases - Other / type not known
• Motor neurone disease

Cerebral palsy

• Cerebral palsy - Ataxic
• Cerebral palsy - Athetoid
• Cerebral palsy - Diplegic
• Cerebral palsy - Hemiplegic
• Cerebral palsy - Other / type not known
• Cerebral palsy - Quadriplegic

Spina bifida

Ataxia

• Ataxia - Friedrich's
• Ataxias - Other / type not known

Neuropathy

• Charcot Marie Tooth disease
• Diabetic neuropathy
• Guillain Barre syndrome
• Neuropathies - Other / type not known including peripheral

Peripheral nerve injury

• Brachial plexus
• Peripheral nerve injury - Other / type not known

Disease of muscle

• Dermatomyositis
• Dystrophia myotonica
• Muscle - Other diseases of / type not known
• Myasthenia gravis
• Polymyositis

Muscular dystrophy

• Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy
• Muscular dystrophy - Becker type
• Muscular dystrophy - Duchenne
• Muscular dystrophy - limb girdle
• Muscular dystrophy - Other / type not known
• Infections Creutzfeldt - Jacob disease (CJD) Infections - Other Poliomyelitis and post polio syndrome Prion diseases - Other / type not known Other neurological disorders Neurological disorders - Other / type not known

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