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

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Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, total, 2024-25, by constituency

Total, low to high

  1. Under £8.9m
  2. £8.9m to £11.2m
  3. £11.2m to £13.4m
  4. £13.4m to £15.7m
  5. £15.7m to £18.0m
  6. £18.0m and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, total, 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 total are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1632Hartlepool 4Neath and Swansea East 12Llanelli 16Whitehaven and Workington 23Clwyd North 28Clacton 35Gower 57Blackpool North and Fleetwood 69Boston and Skegness 189Louth and Horncastle 216

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.

£5.6bnFebruary 2023+£120.8mPopulation+£1.6bnShare claiming+£1.3bnPayment size£8.6bnMarch 2026
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.

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This chart needs JavaScript. Each area's expected level is on its area page.
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 total, 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
RankNotes
1Clacton£29.6m£288£950
2Clwyd North£23.7m£234£972
3Hartlepool£22.7m£231£1,237
4Blackpool North and Fleetwood£22.5m£230£899
5Louth and Horncastle£22.3m£227£755
6Llanelli£21.7m£228£1,046
7Boston and Skegness£21.7m£184£777
8Neath and Swansea East£21.7m£212£1,104
9Gower£21.5m£217£909
10Whitehaven and Workington£20.7m£218£997
11Torbay£20.5m£196£781
12Sefton Central£20.5m£219£820
13Dwyfor Meirionnydd£20.4m£212£856
14Caerfyrddin£20.3m£212£829
15Herne Bay and Sandwich£20.2m£197£742
16Folkestone and Hythe£20.1m£214£880
17Morecambe and Lunesdale£19.9m£200£780
18Scarborough and Whitby£19.9m£201£782
19Fylde£19.8m£196£710
20Mid and South Pembrokeshire£19.8m£192£776
21Bognor Regis and Littlehampton£19.7m£181£682
22Castle Point£19.7m£213£870
23Christchurch£19.5m£221£653
24Clwyd East£19.5m£201£809
25North West Norfolk£19.4m£188£728
26Dumfries and Galloway£19.3m£201£764Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
27Houghton and Sunderland South£19.2m£181£911
28Aberafan Maesteg£19.0m£205£1,028
29Harwich and North Essex£19.0m£186£787
30Newport West and Islwyn£18.9m£183£966
31Bassetlaw£18.9m£170£833
32Swansea West£18.9m£167£1,057
33Bexhill and Battle£18.8m£204£665
34Bridgend£18.8m£194£928
35Blyth and Ashington£18.7m£177£881
36Bridlington and The Wolds£18.7m£196£673
37South Holland and The Deepings£18.6m£163£706
38Ceredigion Preseli£18.6m£195£755
39Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe£18.6m£201£747
40North East Cambridgeshire£18.5m£177£798
41West Worcestershire£18.5m£181£655
42East Thanet£18.5m£174£830
43Southport£18.4m£184£740
44Wirral West£18.4m£206£748
45St Helens North£18.3m£178£906
46North Norfolk£18.2m£209£616
47Coatbridge and Bellshill£18.2m£190£1,135Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
48Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke£18.2m£186£1,036Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
49East Renfrewshire£18.2m£183£876Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
50North Durham£18.1m£186£869

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are total 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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