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Blaenau Gwent has the most people receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment per 1,000 residents in July 2026.

People receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment, in each month with published figures. Help with the extra costs of a long-term health condition or disability. In Scotland, Adult Disability Payment replaces Personal Independence Payment.

Per 1,000 residents, low to high

Under 46.3
46.3 to 61.6
61.6 to 76.8
76.8 to 92.1
92.1 to 107.3
107.3 and over

People receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment, per 1,000 residents, July 2026, by local authority. 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 350 ranked local authorities. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest per 1,000 residents are drawn in dark lines.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment: yearly spending at the rate in July 2023 and in July 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: Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment
July 2023	£20.1bn
Population	+£255.3m
Share claiming	+£6.8bn
Payment size	+£3.3bn
July 2026	£30.5bn

The share claiming is the number of people claiming per resident. 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?

Benefit spending per resident, 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 = £765 − £935 × share aged 0 to 15 + £9,046 × share aged 66 and over − £177 × deprivation decile + £267 × ln(median pay) + £581 × Wales + £224 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 346 local authorities. R² = 0.87. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every local authority

People receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment, July 2026. Rank is for per 1,000 residents, and 1 is the highest. Areas with fewer than 1,000 people in the age group have no rank. The first 50 of 350 rows are shown.

People receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment for every local authority, July 2026
Rank				Notes
1	Blaenau Gwent	9,323	137.7
2	Merthyr Tydfil	7,804	132.9
3	Knowsley	21,334	131.9
4	Inverclyde	10,160	129.0	Includes Scottish benefits
5	West Dunbartonshire	11,410	128.5	Includes Scottish benefits
6	Neath Port Talbot	18,055	126.6
7	Blackpool	17,780	124.0
8	Caerphilly	21,596	122.5
9	North Lanarkshire	42,005	122.3	Includes Scottish benefits
10	Dundee City	18,095	121.2	Includes Scottish benefits
11	Hartlepool	11,830	120.9
12	North Ayrshire	16,145	120.6	Includes Scottish benefits
13	Liverpool	60,315	118.7
14	Glasgow City	77,175	118.7	Includes Scottish benefits
15	Rhondda Cynon Taf	27,416	113.4
16	Torfaen	10,651	113.3
17	Sunderland	32,185	112.3
18	East Ayrshire	13,550	111.7	Includes Scottish benefits
19	Halton	14,589	111.2
20	South Tyneside	16,463	109.2
21	Clackmannanshire	5,630	108.3	Includes Scottish benefits
22	County Durham	56,470	105.2
23	St. Helens	19,792	105.1
24	Barnsley	26,224	104.3
25	Wirral	34,060	103.8
26	Redcar and Cleveland	14,395	103.7
27	West Lothian	19,120	102.7	Includes Scottish benefits
28	Bridgend	15,080	102.5
29	Middlesbrough	15,843	102.4
30	South Lanarkshire	34,070	102.3	Includes Scottish benefits
31	Denbighshire	9,937	101.5
32	Great Yarmouth	10,147	100.8
33	Renfrewshire	19,010	100.8	Includes Scottish benefits
34	Bolsover	8,377	100.1
35	Carmarthenshire	19,036	100.0
36	Dumfries and Galloway	14,470	99.2	Includes Scottish benefits
37	Falkirk	15,850	99.2	Includes Scottish benefits
38	Swansea	24,716	98.6
39	Rotherham	27,222	98.5
40	Sefton	27,922	97.9
41	Chesterfield	10,331	97.6
42	Hyndburn	8,357	97.3
43	East Lindsey	13,989	96.2
44	South Ayrshire	10,745	95.7	Includes Scottish benefits
45	Thanet	13,594	95.6
46	Fife	35,665	95.2	Includes Scottish benefits
47	Burnley	9,424	95.0
48	Gateshead	18,815	93.4
49	Mansfield	10,495	92.6
50	Tendring	14,363	91.8

League table of every local authority for the latest period

Values are per 1,000 residents 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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