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Leicester East has the highest spending on Pension Credit per resident in 2024-25.

Extra money for people over State Pension age who have a low income. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Spending on Pension Credit, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £64
  2. £64 to £86
  3. £86 to £109
  4. £109 to £132
  5. £132 to £154
  6. £154 and over
Spending on Pension Credit, 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

Total or per person

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.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1632Hackney South and Shoreditch 4Tottenham 5Queen's Park and Maida Vale 8Hackney North and Stoke Newington 9Brent East 14Leicester East 15Holborn and St Pancras 16Ealing Southall 25Kensington and Bayswater 32Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 38

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Pension Credit: 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.

£4.8bnFebruary 2023+£97.5mPopulation−£53.7mShare claiming+£1.4bnPayment size£6.3bnMarch 2026
What changed: Pension Credit
February 2023£4.8bn
Population+£97.5m
Share claiming−£53.7m
Payment size+£1.4bn
March 2026£6.3bn
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.

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.

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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 Pension Credit, 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 Pension Credit for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Leicester East£32.7m£256£1,922
2Queen's Park and Maida Vale£30.7m£246£2,376
3Brent East£29.4m£214£1,936
4Tottenham£28.9m£209£2,469
5Ealing Southall£25.9m£196£1,674
6Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£24.0m£192£1,397
7Hackney North and Stoke Newington£22.4m£191£2,283
8Holborn and St Pancras£21.3m£190£1,920
9Kensington and Bayswater£25.1m£189£1,481
10Hackney South and Shoreditch£22.0m£187£2,560
11East Ham£24.9m£182£2,389
12Southgate and Wood Green£22.9m£180£1,292
13Glasgow North East£20.4m£177£1,434
14Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£18.7m£176£1,961
15Ealing North£23.6m£175£1,440
16Bethnal Green and Stepney£23.5m£174£2,997
17Peckham£19.4m£173£2,116
18Harrow East£20.9m£172£1,054
19Feltham and Heston£23.7m£169£1,565
20Islington North£18.7m£169£1,873
21Glasgow East£17.8m£169£1,333
22Harrow West£21.1m£165£1,421
23Liverpool Riverside£21.5m£163£1,814
24Hampstead and Highgate£19.0m£161£1,235
25Brent West£23.3m£161£1,392
26Chelsea and Fulham£19.4m£159£1,273
27Ealing Central and Acton£21.7m£156£1,441
28Aldershot£19.3m£155£1,013
29Birmingham Perry Barr£19.4m£155£1,508
30Islington South and Finsbury£18.7m£154£1,755
31Cities of London and Westminster£20.2m£154£1,244
32Finchley and Golders Green£19.8m£152£1,020
33Leicester South£19.0m£152£1,546
34Hammersmith and Chiswick£17.8m£150£1,289
35Glasgow South West£15.2m£149£1,119
36Knowsley£14.7m£149£939
37Liverpool Walton£15.2m£149£953
38West Ham and Beckton£21.8m£148£2,242
39Birmingham Ladywood£24.6m£147£2,827
40Liverpool West Derby£14.8m£146£879
41Ilford South£20.0m£145£1,622
42Hendon£20.0m£144£1,305
43Smethwick£17.2m£143£1,182
44Brentford and Isleworth£18.9m£143£1,229
45Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£17.1m£142£1,243
46Blackpool South£15.8m£141£797
47Hayes and Harlington£19.8m£141£1,579
48Clacton£14.3m£139£460
49Wolverhampton South East£17.8m£139£1,053
50Bootle£14.4m£138£840

League table of every constituency for the latest period

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

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