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Leicester East has the highest total spending on Pension Credit 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, total, 2024-25, by constituency

Total, low to high

  1. Under £7.4m
  2. £7.4m to £10.6m
  3. £10.6m to £13.7m
  4. £13.7m to £16.8m
  5. £16.8m to £19.9m
  6. £19.9m and over
Spending on Pension Credit, 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 over1632Birmingham Ladywood 2Tottenham 5East Ham 7Queen's Park and Maida Vale 8Brent East 14Leicester East 15Ealing Southall 25Feltham and Heston 29Kensington 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 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 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
6Kensington and Bayswater£25.1m£189£1,481
7East Ham£24.9m£182£2,389
8Birmingham Ladywood£24.6m£147£2,827
9Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£24.0m£192£1,397
10Feltham and Heston£23.7m£169£1,565
11Ealing North£23.6m£175£1,440
12Bethnal Green and Stepney£23.5m£174£2,997
13Brent West£23.3m£161£1,392
14Southgate and Wood Green£22.9m£180£1,292
15Hackney North and Stoke Newington£22.4m£191£2,283
16Hackney South and Shoreditch£22.0m£187£2,560
17West Ham and Beckton£21.8m£148£2,242
18Ealing Central and Acton£21.7m£156£1,441
19Liverpool Riverside£21.5m£163£1,814
20Holborn and St Pancras£21.3m£190£1,920
21Harrow West£21.1m£165£1,421
22Harrow East£20.9m£172£1,054
23Glasgow North East£20.4m£177£1,434
24Cities of London and Westminster£20.2m£154£1,244
25Hendon£20.0m£144£1,305
26Ilford South£20.0m£145£1,622
27Hayes and Harlington£19.8m£141£1,579
28Finchley and Golders Green£19.8m£152£1,020
29Chelsea and Fulham£19.4m£159£1,273
30Peckham£19.4m£173£2,116
31Birmingham Perry Barr£19.4m£155£1,508
32Aldershot£19.3m£155£1,013
33Hampstead and Highgate£19.0m£161£1,235
34Leicester South£19.0m£152£1,546
35Brentford and Isleworth£18.9m£143£1,229
36Islington North£18.7m£169£1,873
37Islington South and Finsbury£18.7m£154£1,755
38Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£18.7m£176£1,961
39Stratford and Bow£18.6m£135£2,113
40Erith and Thamesmead£18.5m£133£1,393
41Wolverhampton South East£17.8m£139£1,053
42Hammersmith and Chiswick£17.8m£150£1,289
43Glasgow East£17.8m£169£1,333
44Enfield North£17.6m£138£1,150
45Barking£17.4m£122£1,810
46Smethwick£17.2m£143£1,182
47Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£17.1m£142£1,243
48Bolton South and Walkden£17.0m£130£1,076
49Ilford North£16.9m£136£1,094
50Poplar and Limehouse£16.9m£113£2,414

League table of every constituency for the latest period

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

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