Disability Price Tag
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What is the Disability Price Tag?
Life costs more if you’re disabled. This report by Scope uses data from the Family Resources Survey to calculate the extra costs faced by disabled households. We call this the ‘Disability Price Tag’.
What did the 2025 Disability Price Tag report find?
Our latest findings show that disabled households need an extra £1,095 each month. This is just to have the same standard of living as non-disabled households.
As inflation is expected to rise over the next five years so the extra costs of disability, reaching £1,224 per month by 2029 to 2030 financial year.
This comes as the Government plans to rip billions from the welfare budget.
Life costs more for disabled people.
Medical equipment, higher energy bills, and specialist support all add up.
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is meant to help, but it’s falling short. The average PIP payment is £465 a month across households, not enough to cover their extra costs of £1,095 per month, leaving a £630 shortfall. By 2030, the estimated shortfall will reach £704. These figures do not take account the impact of proposed cuts in PIP.
If the Government goes ahead with the proposed reforms, by 2029 to 2030 more than 400,000 disabled people will be left facing extra disability related costs with no support, or very limited support, from PIP
Cuts will push disabled people in a more precarious financial position into deep poverty. This will harm their health, reducing their ability to work and participating independently in social and civic activities.
We urge the government to change course and listen to disabled people.
Support and advice
We know life costs more for disabled people. Find more help with bills and the cost of living.
If the content of this report has affected you, you can speak to someone about it. You can contact our helpline by email at helpline@scope.org.uk, or call us on 0808 800 3333.
If you need to talk to someone urgently, please call Samaritans on 116 123, Mind on 0300 123 3393 or text Shout on 85258.
Previous Disability Price Tag reports
2024 Disability Price Tag report
2023 Disability Price Tag report
2019 Disability Price Tag policy report
2019 Disability Price Tag technical report
2018 Disability Price Tag policy report
2018 Disability Price Tag technical report
*The latest Disability Price Tag figure is not directly comparable to previously published figures. This is because we improved our method for calculating the statistical modelling of the Disability Price Tag figure, so the statistical modelling is slightly different to last year.