What to send with your PIP form
Checked 24 September 2026 against GOV.UK · Sources at the bottom
You don't have to send evidence with your PIP2 form, but it can help. The evidence that helps most is short, specific, and clearly tied to what you can and can't do day to day - not a large stack of medical history with no explanation attached.
What actually helps
A list of your medication, or a repeat prescription slip. This backs up what you've written in Part 1, and shows the scale of what you're managing.
Letters from your GP, a consultant, or another specialist. Especially anything that mentions how your condition affects your daily life or mobility, not just your diagnosis or treatment plan.
A care plan, if you have one, or an occupational therapy report - these often already describe, in professional language, exactly the kind of day-to-day difficulty the form is asking about.
A statement from a support worker or carer. Someone who sees you regularly - a paid carer, a support worker, a family member who helps often - can describe what they actually see, in their own words. This is often more useful than a single clinical letter, because it covers an ordinary day rather than one appointment.
What doesn't help much
Sending your entire medical history, unsorted, doesn't do much for your claim on its own. A decision maker or assessor has limited time to go through what you send, and a pile of undifferentiated letters going back years, with nothing explaining how any of it relates to preparing food, washing, getting around or the other activities on the form, is easy to skim past. If you do want to include older or more general records, a short covering note saying which parts are relevant, and why, makes them far more likely to be read and used.
How to send it
Send copies, not originals. DWP does not return documents you post, so keep the originals yourself and send photocopies or printouts instead.
A short covering note helps. A single paragraph or list saying what you've enclosed and how each piece supports what you've written on the form - for example, "GP letter, 3 pages, confirms diagnosis and mentions mobility" - makes your evidence far easier to use than documents dropped in with no explanation.
DWP can request more evidence directly. As part of your claim, DWP may contact your GP or another professional named on your form for further information itself. This is a normal part of the process, not a sign anything is wrong with your claim - it's one reason it's worth listing people on Part 1 who actually know your day-to-day situation, not just whoever is most senior.
You can send evidence after the form, too. If something arrives late - a specialist letter that wasn't ready in time, for instance - you can still send it on to DWP, referencing your National Insurance number so it's matched to the right claim.
If you're not sure what counts
When in doubt, ask: does this document say something about what I can or can't do, safely, reliably, and in reasonable time, with the activities the form covers? If yes, it's worth including, with a line explaining the connection. If it only describes a diagnosis or a hospital stay with no bearing on daily living or mobility, it's less likely to add much - a mention in your own words, in the form itself, may do more.
Where this fits with the rest of your claim
Evidence supports what you've written - it doesn't replace it. The strongest claims pair specific, honest answers on the form itself with a small, well-explained set of documents behind them, not the other way round. See our guide to filling in the PIP2 form, part by part, for what kind of detail helps most in your own answers.
More on the PIP form
Sources
- How to claim PIP, GOV.UK (claim process, evidence and what to send) - checked 24 September 2026
- Personal Independence Payment, GOV.UK (overview) - checked 24 September 2026