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Leicester East has the highest spending on Pension Credit per resident in 2024-25.

Extra money for people over State Pension age who have a low income. Shown in 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on Pension Credit, per resident, 2024-25, by constituency

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £68
  2. £68 to £92
  3. £92 to £115
  4. £115 to £139
  5. £139 to £163
  6. £163 and over
Spending on Pension Credit, per resident, 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

Total or per person

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.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1632Hackney South and Shoreditch 4Tottenham 5Queen's Park and Maida Vale 8Hackney North and Stoke Newington 9Brent East 14Leicester East 15Holborn and St Pancras 16Ealing Southall 25Kensington and Bayswater 32Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 38

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. 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation.

£5.5bnFebruary 2023+£105.3mPopulation−£58.0mShare claiming+£853.5mPayment size£6.4bnMarch 2026
What changed: Pension Credit
February 2023£5.5bn
Population+£105.3m
Share claiming−£58.0m
Payment size+£853.5m
March 2026£6.4bn
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. 2026-27 prices, using CPI 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 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 Pension Credit for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Leicester East£34.6m£271£2,035
2Queen's Park and Maida Vale£32.5m£261£2,515
3Brent East£31.1m£227£2,050
4Tottenham£30.6m£221£2,614
5Ealing Southall£27.4m£207£1,773
6Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£25.4m£203£1,479
7Hackney North and Stoke Newington£23.8m£202£2,418
8Holborn and St Pancras£22.5m£201£2,033
9Kensington and Bayswater£26.6m£201£1,568
10Hackney South and Shoreditch£23.3m£197£2,711
11East Ham£26.4m£193£2,529
12Southgate and Wood Green£24.3m£190£1,368
13Glasgow North East£21.6m£188£1,518
14Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£19.8m£187£2,076
15Ealing North£24.9m£185£1,524
16Bethnal Green and Stepney£24.9m£185£3,173
17Peckham£20.5m£183£2,241
18Harrow East£22.1m£182£1,116
19Feltham and Heston£25.1m£179£1,656
20Islington North£19.8m£179£1,984
21Glasgow East£18.8m£178£1,411
22Harrow West£22.3m£175£1,505
23Liverpool Riverside£22.8m£173£1,921
24Hampstead and Highgate£20.1m£171£1,307
25Brent West£24.7m£170£1,474
26Chelsea and Fulham£20.5m£168£1,348
27Ealing Central and Acton£23.0m£165£1,526
28Aldershot£20.5m£164£1,073
29Birmingham Perry Barr£20.5m£164£1,596
30Islington South and Finsbury£19.8m£163£1,859
31Cities of London and Westminster£21.4m£163£1,317
32Finchley and Golders Green£21.0m£161£1,080
33Leicester South£20.1m£161£1,637
34Hammersmith and Chiswick£18.8m£159£1,364
35Glasgow South West£16.0m£158£1,185
36Knowsley£15.6m£158£994
37Liverpool Walton£16.1m£157£1,009
38West Ham and Beckton£23.1m£156£2,373
39Birmingham Ladywood£26.0m£156£2,993
40Liverpool West Derby£15.7m£155£931
41Ilford South£21.2m£153£1,717
42Hendon£21.2m£152£1,382
43Smethwick£18.2m£152£1,252
44Brentford and Isleworth£20.0m£151£1,301
45Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£18.1m£150£1,316
46Blackpool South£16.8m£149£844
47Hayes and Harlington£21.0m£149£1,672
48Clacton£15.2m£147£487
49Wolverhampton South East£18.9m£147£1,115
50Bootle£15.3m£146£889

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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