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Hartlepool has the highest spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment per person aged 16 to 64 in 2024-25.

Money for people who care for a disabled person for at least 35 hours a week. In Scotland, Carer Support Payment replaces Carer's Allowance. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment, per person aged 16 to 64, 2024-25, by local authority

Per person aged 16 to 64, low to high

  1. Under £75
  2. £75 to £99
  3. £99 to £123
  4. £123 to £147
  5. £147 to £171
  6. £171 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment, per person aged 16 to 64, 2024-25, 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

Total or per person

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 person aged 16 to 64 are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641350Hartlepool 1Bradford 2Merthyr Tydfil 3Neath Port Talbot 4Knowsley 5Sunderland 6Rotherham 7East Lindsey 8Redcar and Cleveland 9Blaenau Gwent 10

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Carer's Allowance and Carer Support 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.

£3.1bnFebruary 2023+£37.8mPopulation+£535.5mShare claiming+£649.6mPayment size£4.3bnMarch 2026
What changed: Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment
February 2023£3.1bn
Population+£37.8m
Share claiming+£535.5m
Payment size+£649.6m
March 2026£4.3bn
The share claiming is the number of people claiming per person aged 16 to 64. 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 working-age benefits per person aged 16 to 64, 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 = −£567 + £3,670 × share aged 0 to 15 − £115 × share aged 66 and over − £170 × deprivation decile + £257 × ln(median pay) + £432 × Wales + £94 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 348 local authorities. R² = 0.85. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every local authority

Spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment, 2024-25. Rank is for per person aged 16 to 64, 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.

Spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment for every local authority, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Hartlepool£13.3m£136£222
2Bradford£72.9m£130£209
3Merthyr Tydfil£7.4m£126£205
4Neath Port Talbot£17.6m£124£203
5Knowsley£20.3m£126£201
6Sunderland£35.2m£123£198
7Rotherham£33.6m£122£198
8East Lindsey£15.4m£106£195
9Redcar and Cleveland£15.8m£114£195
10Blaenau Gwent£8.0m£119£193
11Walsall£34.5m£117£191
12Great Yarmouth£11.1m£110£189
13Tendring£16.0m£103£188
14South Tyneside£17.1m£113£187
15Blackpool£16.4m£115£187
16Middlesbrough£17.9m£116£184
17Thanet£14.9m£105£180
18Barnsley£27.5m£110£178
19County Durham£58.2m£108£176
20Pendle£10.6m£106£175
21Oldham£27.1m£108£175
22Caerphilly£18.8m£107£174
23Blackburn with Darwen£17.7m£110£174
24Sandwell£38.5m£109£171
25Birmingham£132.5m£112£171
26Burnley£10.4m£105£170
27Denbighshire£9.5m£97£169
28North Ayrshire£13.4m£100£168Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
29Swale£16.3m£103£168
30St. Helens£19.5m£103£167
31North East Lincolnshire£15.9m£100£167
32Rhondda Cynon Taf£24.7m£102£164
33Stockton-on-Tees£20.7m£100£164
34Halton£13.3m£101£163
35Ashfield£12.9m£100£163
36Wirral£31.7m£96£162
37Torfaen£9.2m£98£162
38Doncaster£31.8m£99£161
39East Ayrshire£11.9m£98£160Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
40Derby£27.7m£101£158
41Bolsover£8.2m£98£158
42Mansfield£11.0m£97£157
43Kingston upon Hull, City of£27.8m£101£157
44Liverpool£53.9m£106£156
45Inverclyde£7.6m£96£156Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
46Wolverhampton£27.5m£98£156
47Bridgend£14.0m£95£155
48Rochdale£22.5m£96£155
49Gateshead£19.2m£96£154
50Hyndburn£8.2m£95£154

League table of every local authority for the latest period

Values are per person aged 16 to 64 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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