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Glasgow North has the highest spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment per person aged 66 and over in 2023-24.

Help for people over State Pension age whose disability means they need care. In Scotland, Pension Age Disability Payment replaces Attendance Allowance. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, per person aged 66 and over, 2023-24, by constituency

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £519
  2. £519 to £605
  3. £605 to £691
  4. £691 to £777
  5. £777 to £863
  6. £863 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, per person aged 66 and over, 2023-24, 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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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 per person aged 66 and over are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1632Glasgow North 1Bethnal Green and Stepney 2Birmingham Ladywood 3Glasgow North East 4Glasgow East 5Hartlepool 6Manchester Rusholme 7Coatbridge and Bellshill 8Glasgow South West 9Airdrie and Shotts 10

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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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, 2023-24. Rank is for per person aged 66 and over, 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, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Glasgow North£14.8m£130£1,265Shared out, Estimated
2Bethnal Green and Stepney£8.7m£65£1,142
3Birmingham Ladywood£9.7m£60£1,134
4Glasgow North East£14.5m£128£1,040Shared out, Estimated
5Glasgow East£13.5m£131£1,034Shared out, Estimated
6Hartlepool£18.3m£191£1,020
7Manchester Rusholme£6.0m£51£1,008
8Coatbridge and Bellshill£15.6m£164£999Shared out, Estimated
9Glasgow South West£13.0m£130£988Shared out, Estimated
10Airdrie and Shotts£15.3m£164£984Shared out, Estimated
11Liverpool Riverside£11.4m£89£972
12Glasgow West£13.4m£132£964Shared out, Estimated
13Neath and Swansea East£18.6m£184£962
14Swansea West£16.6m£149£941
15Glasgow South£12.4m£135£919Shared out, Estimated
16Newport East£15.7m£136£912
17Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke£15.6m£160£908Shared out, Estimated
18Llanelli£18.5m£195£906
19Aberafan Maesteg£16.4m£178£903
20Liverpool Walton£14.1m£137£898
21Smethwick£13.0m£110£892
22Whitehaven and Workington£18.1m£192£891
23Birmingham Perry Barr£11.3m£91£887
24Stratford and Bow£7.4m£55£877
25Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch£14.9m£162£870Shared out, Estimated
26Newport West and Islwyn£16.7m£163£863
27Clwyd North£20.8m£206£863
28Bradford East£10.5m£86£862
29Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£15.5m£162£850
30Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West£15.0m£109£850
31Knowsley£13.0m£133£849
32West Dunbartonshire£14.9m£162£849Shared out, Estimated
33Liverpool West Derby£14.0m£140£846
34Bradford West£10.3m£82£845
35Cardiff South and Penarth£11.2m£100£839
36Birmingham Yardley£11.1m£96£832
37West Bromwich£13.7m£121£827
38Peckham£7.2m£65£826
39Tipton and Wednesbury£13.7m£118£824
40Rhondda and Ogmore£15.6m£154£824
41Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North£11.9m£96£822
42Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough£12.4m£109£821
43St Helens South and Whiston£14.8m£153£820
44Na h-Eileanan an Iar£5.5m£210£820Shared out, Estimated
45Clacton£25.3m£248£820
46Sunderland Central£15.4m£151£817
47Poplar and Limehouse£5.5m£37£817
48Gower£19.0m£193£816
49Bridgend£16.2m£168£814
50Caerphilly£15.2m£157£814

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per person aged 66 and over 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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