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Clacton has the highest spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment per resident in 2024-25.

Help for people over State Pension age whose disability means they need care. In Scotland, Pension Age Disability Payment replaces Attendance Allowance. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Per resident, low to high

Under £83
£83 to £109
£109 to £135
£135 to £161
£161 to £187
£187 and over

Estimated value

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency. Boundaries are simplified. London is also shown larger, in a separate box. Northern Ireland is not covered. Every value is in the table below.

More ways to look at itHow ranks change, why spending changed, and spending compared with the expected level

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Does the order change when you count per person?

Each line is one of the 632 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest per resident are drawn in dark lines.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment: yearly spending at the rate in February 2023 and in March 2026. The chart splits the change into three parts: the number of people in the age group, the share of them claiming, and the average payment. Cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

What changed: Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment
February 2023	£5.6bn
Population	+£120.8m
Share claiming	+£1.6bn
Payment size	+£1.3bn
March 2026	£8.6bn

The share claiming is the number of people claiming per person aged 66 and over. Yearly spending here is the number claiming, times the average weekly payment, times 52. It is not the amount paid out over the year. Population after mid-2024 stays at the mid-2024 figure, so later growth shows in the share claiming. Scottish areas are left out because Social Security Scotland pays this benefit.

Compared with similar areas

Is spending higher or lower than expected?

Spending on pensioner benefits per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25. We compare it with the level we would expect from each area's share of children and of people aged 66 and over, how deprived it is compared with the rest of its nation, and the typical pay of people who live there. Cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Expected level = £15,304 − £852 × share aged 0 to 15 − £3,208 × share aged 66 and over − £44 × deprivation decile − £206 × ln(median pay) + £186 × Wales + £65 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.39. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, 2024-25. Rank is for per resident, and 1 is the highest. Areas with fewer than 1,000 people in the age group have no rank. The first 50 of 632 rows are shown.

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment for every constituency, 2024-25
Rank					Notes
1	Clacton	£29.6m	£288	£950
2	Na h-Eileanan an Iar	£6.4m	£246	£950	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
3	Clwyd North	£23.7m	£234	£972
4	Hartlepool	£22.7m	£231	£1,237
5	Blackpool North and Fleetwood	£22.5m	£230	£899
6	Llanelli	£21.7m	£228	£1,046
7	Louth and Horncastle	£22.3m	£227	£755
8	Christchurch	£19.5m	£221	£653
9	Sefton Central	£20.5m	£219	£820
10	Whitehaven and Workington	£20.7m	£218	£997
11	Gower	£21.5m	£217	£909
12	Folkestone and Hythe	£20.1m	£214	£880
13	Castle Point	£19.7m	£213	£870
14	Neath and Swansea East	£21.7m	£212	£1,104
15	Caerfyrddin	£20.3m	£212	£829
16	Ynys Môn	£14.7m	£212	£819
17	Dwyfor Meirionnydd	£20.4m	£212	£856
18	North Norfolk	£18.2m	£209	£616
19	Wirral West	£18.4m	£206	£748
20	Aberafan Maesteg	£19.0m	£205	£1,028
21	Bexhill and Battle	£18.8m	£204	£665
22	Scarborough and Whitby	£19.9m	£201	£782
23	Clwyd East	£19.5m	£201	£809
24	Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe	£18.6m	£201	£747
25	Dumfries and Galloway	£19.3m	£201	£764	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
26	Morecambe and Lunesdale	£19.9m	£200	£780
27	Isle of Wight East	£13.8m	£199	£650
28	Herne Bay and Sandwich	£20.2m	£197	£742
29	Bridlington and The Wolds	£18.7m	£196	£673
30	Fylde	£19.8m	£196	£710
31	Torbay	£20.5m	£196	£781
32	North Ayrshire and Arran	£17.8m	£195	£798	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
33	Ceredigion Preseli	£18.6m	£195	£755
34	Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West	£17.5m	£194	£897	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
35	Bridgend	£18.8m	£194	£928
36	New Forest West	£16.5m	£194	£587
37	Mid and South Pembrokeshire	£19.8m	£192	£776
38	Brigg and Immingham	£17.8m	£192	£781
39	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock	£17.3m	£191	£777	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
40	North Northumberland	£17.9m	£191	£654
41	Coatbridge and Bellshill	£18.2m	£190	£1,135	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
42	Airdrie and Shotts	£17.8m	£190	£1,128	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
43	Central Ayrshire	£17.0m	£190	£808	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
44	South Shields	£17.1m	£190	£892
45	West Dunbartonshire	£17.3m	£189	£970	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
46	Bangor Aberconwy	£17.8m	£189	£832
47	Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch	£17.4m	£188	£994	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
48	Newton Abbot	£17.9m	£188	£712
49	North West Norfolk	£19.4m	£188	£728
50	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£17.9m	£188	£977

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per resident unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Social Security Scotland, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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