As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly check your Personal Independence Payment eligibility.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the current Personal Independence Payment guidance and eligibility pages on GOV.UK, and keep the pages available for checking.
   2. Write separate examples of how your condition affects each daily living and mobility activity, including what happens, what help or aid you need, how often it happens and how long it has been happening.
   3. Gather relevant letters, care records, prescription information and statements from people who help you, removing unnecessary personal details before pasting anything into a chatbot.
   4. Paste the prompt and your examples into a chatbot, then ask it to use current GOV.UK links rather than relying on memory.
   5. Open every GOV.UK link in the response and compare the quoted criteria with the current wording, correcting any rule, descriptor or duration that is not supported by the source.
   6. Take the unresolved questions and your corrected examples to a welfare rights adviser or Citizens Advice before relying on the screening result or completing a claim.

   Prompt

   I want a provisional check of whether I might meet the current UK Personal Independence Payment criteria. Do not decide that I am eligible and do not invent facts, medical evidence, points, rules or dates. Use only the current GOV.UK PIP guidance, identify the exact GOV.UK pages or links you rely on, and say when you cannot verify something.
   
   My circumstances:
   - Age and living situation: [describe]
   - Conditions, impairments or symptoms: [describe, without adding a diagnosis]
   - How they affect daily living activities: [give specific examples of what you cannot do, can do only with help, or can do only with difficulty]
   - How they affect mobility: [give specific examples]
   - How often each difficulty happens: [describe]
   - How long each difficulty has lasted or is expected to last: [describe]
   - Help, aids or adaptations used: [describe]
   - What happens on better and worse days: [describe]
   - Evidence available, such as medical letters or care records: [describe]
   
   Return these sections:
   1. Information that is missing or unclear.
   2. A table matching each relevant difficulty to the current GOV.UK criterion or descriptor, with a direct link and a confidence label of high, medium or low.
   3. A provisional explanation of what may be relevant, without declaring eligibility or estimating an award.
   4. Facts that I should record with concrete examples before making a claim.
   5. Questions to ask a welfare rights adviser or the DWP.
   6. A short warning that the DWP makes the decision and that this is not professional advice.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.