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Bethnal Green and Stepney has the highest spending on Pension Credit per person aged 66 and over in 2023-24.

Extra money for people over State Pension age who have a low income. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Spending on Pension Credit, per person aged 66 and over, 2023-24, by constituency

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £462
  2. £462 to £734
  3. £734 to £1,006
  4. £1,006 to £1,278
  5. £1,278 to £1,550
  6. £1,550 and over
Spending on Pension Credit, 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 over1632Bethnal Green and Stepney 1Birmingham Ladywood 2Manchester Rusholme 3Hackney South and Shoreditch 4Tottenham 5Poplar and Limehouse 6Queen's Park and Maida Vale 7East Ham 8Hackney North and Stoke Newington 9West Ham and Beckton 10

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Pension Credit: 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.

£4.8bnFebruary 2023+£97.5mPopulation−£53.7mShare claiming+£1.4bnPayment size£6.3bnMarch 2026
What changed: Pension Credit
February 2023£4.8bn
Population+£97.5m
Share claiming−£53.7m
Payment size+£1.4bn
March 2026£6.3bn
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 Pension Credit, 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 Pension Credit for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Bethnal Green and Stepney£21.4m£160£2,799
2Birmingham Ladywood£22.6m£139£2,633
3Manchester Rusholme£15.0m£127£2,499
4Hackney South and Shoreditch£19.9m£171£2,385
5Tottenham£25.9m£188£2,286
6Poplar and Limehouse£15.2m£102£2,264
7Queen's Park and Maida Vale£27.6m£223£2,206
8East Ham£22.3m£164£2,189
9Hackney North and Stoke Newington£20.0m£170£2,086
10West Ham and Beckton£19.0m£132£2,045
11Peckham£17.7m£159£2,025
12Stratford and Bow£16.8m£124£1,979
13Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£16.8m£158£1,835
14Leicester East£30.3m£239£1,815
15Holborn and St Pancras£19.2m£173£1,789
16Brent East£26.0m£191£1,749
17Islington North£16.9m£153£1,726
18Liverpool Riverside£19.7m£155£1,689
19Bermondsey and Old Southwark£12.2m£111£1,687
20Clapham and Brixton Hill£12.6m£121£1,645
21Islington South and Finsbury£16.8m£139£1,623
22Barking£15.2m£110£1,605
23Lewisham North£13.3m£114£1,598
24Greenwich and Woolwich£14.1m£115£1,544
25Ealing Southall£23.0m£177£1,537
26Ilford South£17.8m£131£1,473
27Walthamstow£13.7m£111£1,473
28Leicester South£17.6m£143£1,468
29Hayes and Harlington£17.6m£129£1,417
30Feltham and Heston£20.9m£152£1,411
31Birmingham Perry Barr£17.7m£142£1,388
32Kensington and Bayswater£22.8m£169£1,365
33Croydon West£14.5m£113£1,340
34Ealing Central and Acton£19.7m£144£1,340
35Harrow West£19.4m£155£1,331
36Glasgow North East£18.5m£163£1,327
37Ealing North£20.8m£158£1,314
38Brent West£21.1m£148£1,298
39Erith and Thamesmead£16.6m£121£1,280
40Manchester Central£13.0m£97£1,269
41Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£21.2m£169£1,264
42Glasgow East£16.1m£156£1,232
43Chelsea and Fulham£17.6m£145£1,201
44Hendon£17.6m£130£1,194
45Bradford West£14.5m£116£1,193
46Dulwich and West Norwood£12.4m£117£1,190
47Hammersmith and Chiswick£16.0m£136£1,181
48Southgate and Wood Green£20.3m£159£1,180
49Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£15.8m£133£1,167
50Cities of London and Westminster£18.2m£140£1,148

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, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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