DWP PIP increases have nosedived since Labour took over

The number of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants who saw an increase in their benefits after reassessment has plummeted in the two years since Labour got back in power.

This is despite every right-wing shit rag screaming that claims have gone up and are out of control.

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Benefits and Work reported that less than one in fifteen PIP claimants saw an increase in benefits after reassessment from November 2025 to January 2026. This fell from about one in ten in November 2024 to January 2025 and one in five for the same period 23/24.

The data obtained from DWP stat-Xplore shows a bleak picture of where we are with benefit cuts. In the previous five years, the monthly percentage award increases after reassessment have almost never fallen below 10%. That’s except for July 2025, when it fell to 8.33%. It also slightly dipped to 9.9% in November 2024.

However, in the most recent quarter (November 2025 to January 2026) all three months saw increases of less than 8% for PIP reassessments. In November 2025, the increase was 7.93%. In December 2025, it was just 5.41% and then in January 2026 it was 5.99%. Over the entire quarter, on average, just 6.44% of claimants saw an increase.

The year before (24/25), the same quarter had 10.16% of claimants getting an increase. But this is almost half of the amount the year before that (23/24) where 20.9% of all claimants saw an increase.

However, whilst the outcome for a lot hasn’t increased, it also hasn’t got worse.

In the last quarter, 3.34% of claimants saw their benefits decrease. This compares to 3.56% last year and 8.6% the year before that.

Actually, figures are holding steady

For the most part, despite the constant rhetoric that the DWP are too lenient, most benefit awards have increasingly stayed the same. From November 2025 to January 2026,  78.2% of claimants’ benefits stayed the same following a review. This is up slightly from 76.3% the year before and a jump from 53.2% two years before.

Of course, the DWP aren’t advertising the fact that many fewer people are having their benefits money increased. The sneaky cunts have found a way around this by only publishing figures publicly on a five yearly basis, whilst calling it official quarterly PIP statistics.  This means the figures for the last quarter are skewed.

That means they can publish that in the last 5 years, 15% of awards increased, 63% were maintained at the current level, and 6% decreased. They’ve also lumped increase and no change together so they can say that

1.8 million (78%) of the 2.3 million planned award reviews resulted in an increase or no change to the level of award received by the claimant

They’ve also pushed all the successful claims together, meaning they can spout things such as:

1.8 million (78%) of the 2.3 million planned award reviews resulted in an increase or no change to the level of award received by the claimant

This no doubt works in their favour, especially as it means right-wing windbags will be quoting their inflated figures and not the true ones for now.

Hostility

While there’s been no change in law or policy that would account for the fall in award increases, it’s not impossible in this current climate of even worse than usual hostility towards benefits claimants to see why it’s dropped so dramatically since Labour got back in.

Under Labour, the DWP has been pulled up for staff attitudes and the inability to retain assessors. There’s also now near constant hate coming from the department, other politicians and the press about disabled claimants.

At a time when the government is working hard to restrict benefits and constantly claiming the amount is too high, they’ll do anything to keep the fact that disabled people are already losing benefits hidden.

Featured image via the Canary