The latest statistics from the Department for Work and Pension s (DWP) show that by the end of October, there were more than three million people across the UK claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP), including 329,334 living in Scotland.
The figures also show that nearly half a million people of State Pension age are also in receipt of PIP. Across the UK, some 486,940 older people are getting support through the disability benefit, including 52,676 in Scotland.
PIP currently provides between £24.45 and £156.90 each week, but as the benefit is paid every four weeks, this amounts to between £97.80 and £627.60 every pay period.
And it’s not just PIP older people are claiming, new figures from Social Security Scotland show that between March and October last year 25 per cent of applications for Adult Disability Payment - the new devolved benefit replacing PIP in Scotland - were made by people aged between 55 and 64.
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