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Bethnal Green and Stepney has the highest spending on Pension Credit per person aged 66 and over in 2024-25.

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, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected Filton and Bradley Stoke: £292 per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, 487th of 632 constituencies.

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £493
  2. £493 to £783
  3. £783 to £1,074
  4. £1,074 to £1,364
  5. £1,364 to £1,655
  6. £1,655 and over
Spending on Pension Credit, per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, 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, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1632Bethnal Green and Stepney 1Birmingham Ladywood 2Manchester Rusholme 3Hackney South and Shoreditch 4Tottenham 5Poplar and Limehouse 6East Ham 7Queen's Park and Maida Vale 8Hackney North and Stoke Newington 9West Ham and Beckton 10Filton and Bradley Stoke 487

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Filton and Bradley Stoke, 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.

£3.5mFebruary 2023+£0.08mPopulation+£0.03mShare claiming+£1.2mPayment size£4.8mMarch 2026
What changed: Pension Credit
February 2023£3.5m
Population+£0.08m
Share claiming+£0.03m
Payment size+£1.2m
March 2026£4.8m
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, 2024-25. 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, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Bethnal Green and Stepney£23.5m£174£2,997
2Birmingham Ladywood£24.6m£147£2,827
3Manchester Rusholme£16.6m£137£2,693
4Hackney South and Shoreditch£22.0m£187£2,560
5Tottenham£28.9m£209£2,469
6Poplar and Limehouse£16.9m£113£2,414
7East Ham£24.9m£182£2,389
8Queen's Park and Maida Vale£30.7m£246£2,376
9Hackney North and Stoke Newington£22.4m£191£2,283
10West Ham and Beckton£21.8m£148£2,242
11Peckham£19.4m£173£2,116
12Stratford and Bow£18.6m£135£2,113
13Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£18.7m£176£1,961
14Brent East£29.4m£214£1,936
15Leicester East£32.7m£256£1,922
16Holborn and St Pancras£21.3m£190£1,920
17Islington North£18.7m£169£1,873
18Bermondsey and Old Southwark£13.7m£124£1,822
19Liverpool Riverside£21.5m£163£1,814
20Barking£17.4m£122£1,810
21Clapham and Brixton Hill£14.0m£135£1,776
22Islington South and Finsbury£18.7m£154£1,755
23Lewisham North£14.9m£127£1,729
24Greenwich and Woolwich£15.7m£127£1,684
25Ealing Southall£25.9m£196£1,674
26Ilford South£20.0m£145£1,622
27Hayes and Harlington£19.8m£141£1,579
28Walthamstow£15.0m£120£1,568
29Feltham and Heston£23.7m£169£1,565
30Leicester South£19.0m£152£1,546
31Birmingham Perry Barr£19.4m£155£1,508
32Kensington and Bayswater£25.1m£189£1,481
33Croydon West£16.3m£124£1,461
34Ealing Central and Acton£21.7m£156£1,441
35Ealing North£23.6m£175£1,440
36Glasgow North East£20.4m£177£1,434
37Harrow West£21.1m£165£1,421
38Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£24.0m£192£1,397
39Erith and Thamesmead£18.5m£133£1,393
40Brent West£23.3m£161£1,392
41Manchester Central£14.2m£102£1,375
42Glasgow East£17.8m£169£1,333
43Hendon£20.0m£144£1,305
44Southgate and Wood Green£22.9m£180£1,292
45Hammersmith and Chiswick£17.8m£150£1,289
46Bradford West£16.0m£126£1,285
47Dulwich and West Norwood£13.5m£128£1,276
48Chelsea and Fulham£19.4m£159£1,273
49Cities of London and Westminster£20.2m£154£1,244
50Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£17.1m£142£1,243

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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