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Clacton has the highest total spending on pensioner benefits in 2024-25.

State Pension, Pension Credit, Attendance Allowance and winter heating payments, with the Scottish benefits that replace them. Per person figures use people aged 66 and over, the State Pension age. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Spending on pensioner benefits, total, 2024-25, by constituency

Total, low to high

  1. Under £151.2m
  2. £151.2m to £187.7m
  3. £187.7m to £224.2m
  4. £224.2m to £260.7m
  5. £260.7m to £297.3m
  6. £297.3m and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on pensioner benefits, 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

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Each line is one of the 631 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 over1631Clacton 134Boston and Skegness 280Louth and Horncastle 356Chichester 395Bexhill and Battle 417Christchurch 426Bognor Regis and Littlehampton 436North Norfolk 565South Shropshire 591West Dorset 607

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, State Pension: 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.

Benefit
£104.6bnFebruary 2023+£2.1bnPopulation+£5.0bnShare claiming+£28.8bnPayment size£140.6bnMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£104.6bn
Population+£2.1bn
Share claiming+£5.0bn
Payment size+£28.8bn
March 2026£140.6bn
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.

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 pensioner benefits, 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 pensioner benefits for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Clacton£387.3m£3,760£12,425
2Christchurch£357.7m£4,051£11,966
3Louth and Horncastle£356.8m£3,619£12,063
4West Dorset£353.7m£3,671£11,606
5North Norfolk£346.7m£3,989£11,739
6Bognor Regis and Littlehampton£346.4m£3,176£11,958
7Boston and Skegness£339.5m£2,885£12,158
8Bexhill and Battle£339.1m£3,674£11,979
9South Shropshire£338.2m£3,508£11,658
10Chichester£337.3m£3,082£12,014
11West Worcestershire£336.5m£3,283£11,920
12Honiton and Sidmouth£334.5m£3,570£11,493
13Arundel and South Downs£334.0m£3,369£11,841
14New Forest West£333.6m£3,924£11,894
15Suffolk Coastal£330.2m£3,464£11,661
16Bridlington and The Wolds£327.0m£3,433£11,763
17Herne Bay and Sandwich£325.9m£3,178£12,004
18Fylde£325.3m£3,208£11,647
19Torridge and Tavistock£323.9m£3,317£11,679
20Thirsk and Malton£321.7m£3,222£11,800
21North Northumberland£320.6m£3,418£11,731
22Lewes£320.0m£3,286£12,019
23South Holland and The Deepings£318.3m£2,786£12,057
24Skipton and Ripon£317.2m£3,164£11,765
25North West Norfolk£317.0m£3,067£11,891
26South Dorset£315.0m£3,131£11,706
27Worthing West£314.6m£3,059£11,797
28South Devon£313.2m£3,393£11,633
29Torbay£310.9m£2,968£11,852
30Morecambe and Lunesdale£309.5m£3,101£12,117
31Sefton Central£309.5m£3,315£12,408
32Stratford-on-Avon£308.9m£3,016£11,909
33Waveney Valley£308.4m£3,376£11,712
34North Herefordshire£307.0m£3,310£11,640
35Tiverton and Minehead£306.7m£3,296£11,710
36Mid Dorset and North Poole£305.4m£3,125£12,074
37Scarborough and Whitby£303.9m£3,074£11,928
38Wyre Forest£303.5m£2,920£12,086
39Clwyd North£303.4m£2,994£12,448
40Dumfries and Galloway£303.0m£3,145£11,986Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
41North Dorset£302.6m£3,161£11,871
42Hexham£301.5m£3,130£11,758
43Mid and South Pembrokeshire£300.8m£2,920£11,797
44Blackpool North and Fleetwood£300.8m£3,078£12,025
45Penrith and Solway£300.7m£3,019£11,742
46Newton Abbot£299.9m£3,159£11,965
47South West Norfolk£299.3m£2,802£12,024
48Newark£299.3m£2,722£11,846
49North Devon£299.1m£2,955£11,793
50Maldon£298.9m£2,895£12,138

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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