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Birmingham Ladywood has the highest spending on pensioner benefits per person aged 66 and over in 2023-24.

State Pension, Pension Credit, Attendance Allowance and winter heating payments, with the Scottish benefits that replace them. Per person figures use people aged 66 and over, the State Pension age. Shown in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Spending on pensioner benefits, per person aged 66 and over, 2023-24, by constituency

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £11,217
  2. £11,217 to £11,474
  3. £11,474 to £11,732
  4. £11,732 to £11,989
  5. £11,989 to £12,246
  6. £12,246 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on pensioner benefits, 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 631 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 over1631Birmingham Ladywood 1Liverpool Riverside 2Glasgow East 3Manchester Rusholme 4Glasgow North East 5Bermondsey and Old Southwark 6Hackney South and Shoreditch 7Lewisham North 8Islington South and Finsbury 9Glasgow North 10

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.

Benefit
£104.6bnFebruary 2023+£2.1bnPopulation+£5.0bnShare claiming+£28.8bnPayment size£140.6bnMarch 2026
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?

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 pensioner benefits, 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 pensioner benefits for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Birmingham Ladywood£113.6m£701£13,252
2Liverpool Riverside£152.2m£1,195£13,029
3Glasgow East£168.6m£1,634£12,924Shared out, Estimated
4Manchester Rusholme£77.3m£655£12,902
5Glasgow North East£177.9m£1,571£12,766Shared out, Estimated
6Bermondsey and Old Southwark£91.8m£834£12,651
7Hackney South and Shoreditch£105.2m£905£12,630
8Lewisham North£105.1m£896£12,590
9Islington South and Finsbury£130.3m£1,079£12,573
10Glasgow North£146.5m£1,295£12,556Shared out, Estimated
11Bethnal Green and Stepney£96.1m£720£12,552
12Glasgow South£168.5m£1,835£12,524Shared out, Estimated
13Holborn and St Pancras£134.5m£1,210£12,507
14Bristol Central£86.6m£863£12,501
15Islington North£122.4m£1,106£12,494
16Leeds South£150.7m£1,169£12,466
17Leeds Central and Headingley£92.6m£820£12,448
18Coatbridge and Bellshill£194.4m£2,044£12,443Shared out, Estimated
19Airdrie and Shotts£193.1m£2,063£12,422Shared out, Estimated
20Liverpool Walton£194.6m£1,897£12,420
21Bradford East£150.7m£1,229£12,394
22Clapham and Brixton Hill£94.3m£906£12,316
23Knowsley£188.2m£1,936£12,314
24Tottenham£139.4m£1,008£12,288
25Stoke-on-Trent Central£198.5m£1,689£12,285
26Hartlepool£220.1m£2,294£12,281
27Queen's Park and Maida Vale£153.8m£1,240£12,277
28Salford£143.3m£1,071£12,246
29Glasgow West£170.1m£1,680£12,232Shared out, Estimated
30Hackney North and Stoke Newington£117.1m£993£12,191
31Glasgow South West£160.3m£1,604£12,179Shared out, Estimated
32Aberafan Maesteg£221.5m£2,401£12,168
33Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke£209.1m£2,142£12,165Shared out, Estimated
34Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton£186.4m£1,615£12,153
35Cardiff South and Penarth£162.3m£1,448£12,149
36Walthamstow£113.0m£912£12,120
37Poplar and Limehouse£81.4m£548£12,113
38Liverpool Wavertree£172.5m£1,616£12,105
39West Dunbartonshire£211.9m£2,312£12,104Shared out, Estimated
40Thurrock£152.6m£1,237£12,099
41Swansea West£213.8m£1,920£12,090
42Telford£193.7m£1,777£12,084
43Northampton South£197.1m£1,733£12,082
44Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney£219.8m£2,306£12,076
45Nottingham East£128.4m£1,040£12,074
46Coventry East£184.3m£1,508£12,072
47Hamilton and Clyde Valley£227.8m£2,331£12,063Shared out, Estimated
48Broxbourne£221.7m£2,014£12,063
49Peckham£105.5m£949£12,056
50Manchester Central£123.8m£920£12,053

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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