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Caerphilly has the highest spending on other benefits per resident in 2023-24.

Bereavement Benefit, Incapacity Benefit and Severe Disablement Allowance. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Per resident, low to high

Under £3.90
£3.90 to £4.85
£4.85 to £5.81
£5.81 to £6.76
£6.76 to £7.71
£7.71 and over

Estimated value

Spending on other benefits, per resident, 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 resident are drawn in dark lines.

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.

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?

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 = −£880 + £1,417 × share aged 0 to 15 + £9,950 × share aged 66 and over − £207 × deprivation decile + £391 × ln(median pay) + £506 × Wales + £250 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.84. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on other benefits, 2023-24. Rank is for per resident, 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 other benefits for every constituency, 2023-24
Rank				Notes
1	Caerphilly	£1.0m	£11
2	Wirral West	£0.93m	£10
3	Na h-Eileanan an Iar	£0.25m	£9.68	Shared out, Estimated
4	Halifax	£1.0m	£9.30
5	West Dunbartonshire	£0.85m	£9.29	Shared out, Estimated
6	Blackpool North and Fleetwood	£0.87m	£9.01
7	Derbyshire Dales	£0.82m	£8.98
8	North Ayrshire and Arran	£0.82m	£8.98	Shared out, Estimated
9	Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe	£0.82m	£8.93
10	East Renfrewshire	£0.88m	£8.89	Shared out, Estimated
11	Clwyd East	£0.85m	£8.79
12	Hexham	£0.83m	£8.73
13	Airdrie and Shotts	£0.81m	£8.71	Shared out, Estimated
14	St Helens South and Whiston	£0.84m	£8.64
15	Gower	£0.85m	£8.62
16	East Kilbride and Strathaven	£0.83m	£8.57	Shared out, Estimated
17	Newark	£0.92m	£8.52
18	Barrow and Furness	£0.83m	£8.51
19	Weald of Kent	£0.84m	£8.48
20	Weston-super-Mare	£0.84m	£8.45
21	Rutherglen	£0.80m	£8.34	Shared out, Estimated
22	Alloa and Grangemouth	£0.79m	£8.28	Shared out, Estimated
23	Beverley and Holderness	£0.75m	£8.26
24	Bangor Aberconwy	£0.78m	£8.25
25	Glenrothes and Mid Fife	£0.76m	£8.17	Shared out, Estimated
26	Whitehaven and Workington	£0.77m	£8.17
27	Llanelli	£0.78m	£8.17
28	Dwyfor Meirionnydd	£0.77m	£8.10
29	Camborne and Redruth	£0.81m	£8.04
30	Jarrow and Gateshead East	£0.76m	£7.97
31	Redditch	£0.79m	£7.90
32	Arbroath and Broughty Ferry	£0.80m	£7.89	Shared out, Estimated
33	North Somerset	£0.75m	£7.86
34	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£0.75m	£7.83
35	Stretford and Urmston	£0.81m	£7.81
36	Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber	£0.73m	£7.80	Shared out, Estimated
37	Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West	£0.70m	£7.80	Shared out, Estimated
38	Plymouth Moor View	£0.79m	£7.80
39	Aberafan Maesteg	£0.72m	£7.76
40	Easington	£0.73m	£7.70
41	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	£0.75m	£7.68	Shared out, Estimated
42	Birmingham Yardley	£0.89m	£7.66
43	Cheadle	£0.75m	£7.65
44	Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr	£0.76m	£7.64
45	Ynys Môn	£0.53m	£7.59
46	Herne Bay and Sandwich	£0.76m	£7.56
47	Bassetlaw	£0.82m	£7.56
48	South Leicestershire	£0.79m	£7.54
49	Penistone and Stocksbridge	£0.68m	£7.53
50	Hastings and Rye	£0.79m	£7.49

League table of every constituency for the latest period

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

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