ok i thought i was missing out on something, If you don’t mind can i please ask why is WPMS more per week than pip . Do you need to go through a similar application procedure as PIP to get it , sorry for showing my ignorance
Technically, WPMS is more difficult to get as it requires a pre-qualification of being at least 40% disabled (thus a 40% War Pension) to apply and that 40% percentage disablement for WPMS must be mobility related. It cannot be made up of 20% mobility and 20% mental illness, or 30% mobility related /10% other physical disability etc.
However all single/double leg amputees and those deaf/blind automatically qualify.
Veterans UK who administer the scheme have contracted the DWP (who in turn contracted ATOS/Crapita etc) to do the medicals for all War Pension cases, so you maybe able to guess at the quality or accuracy of some of them. Plus all War Pension percentage disabilities and allowances are decided by Veterans UK medico’s as opposed to lay ‘Decsion makers’ and they can be quite tough on applicants.
As to why it is more per week, well WPMS pre-dates the DWP ‘Mobility Allowance’ by quite a lot of years. When the government of the day introduced the then civilian ‘Mobility Allowance’ (which eventually became part of DLA then PIP etc) they set it at a lower rate than WPMS.
It has thus remained lower than WPMS ever since.