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Leicester East has the highest total spending on Pension Credit 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, total, 2024-25, by constituency

Total, low to high

  1. Under £7.9m
  2. £7.9m to £11.2m
  3. £11.2m to £14.5m
  4. £14.5m to £17.8m
  5. £17.8m to £21.1m
  6. £21.1m and over
Spending on Pension Credit, total, 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 total are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1632Birmingham Ladywood 2Tottenham 5East Ham 7Queen's Park and Maida Vale 8Brent East 14Leicester East 15Ealing Southall 25Feltham and Heston 29Kensington 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 total, 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
6Kensington and Bayswater£26.6m£201£1,568
7East Ham£26.4m£193£2,529
8Birmingham Ladywood£26.0m£156£2,993
9Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£25.4m£203£1,479
10Feltham and Heston£25.1m£179£1,656
11Ealing North£24.9m£185£1,524
12Bethnal Green and Stepney£24.9m£185£3,173
13Brent West£24.7m£170£1,474
14Southgate and Wood Green£24.3m£190£1,368
15Hackney North and Stoke Newington£23.8m£202£2,418
16Hackney South and Shoreditch£23.3m£197£2,711
17West Ham and Beckton£23.1m£156£2,373
18Ealing Central and Acton£23.0m£165£1,526
19Liverpool Riverside£22.8m£173£1,921
20Holborn and St Pancras£22.5m£201£2,033
21Harrow West£22.3m£175£1,505
22Harrow East£22.1m£182£1,116
23Glasgow North East£21.6m£188£1,518
24Cities of London and Westminster£21.4m£163£1,317
25Hendon£21.2m£152£1,382
26Ilford South£21.2m£153£1,717
27Hayes and Harlington£21.0m£149£1,672
28Finchley and Golders Green£21.0m£161£1,080
29Chelsea and Fulham£20.5m£168£1,348
30Peckham£20.5m£183£2,241
31Birmingham Perry Barr£20.5m£164£1,596
32Aldershot£20.5m£164£1,073
33Hampstead and Highgate£20.1m£171£1,307
34Leicester South£20.1m£161£1,637
35Brentford and Isleworth£20.0m£151£1,301
36Islington North£19.8m£179£1,984
37Islington South and Finsbury£19.8m£163£1,859
38Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£19.8m£187£2,076
39Stratford and Bow£19.7m£143£2,237
40Erith and Thamesmead£19.6m£141£1,474
41Wolverhampton South East£18.9m£147£1,115
42Hammersmith and Chiswick£18.8m£159£1,364
43Glasgow East£18.8m£178£1,411
44Enfield North£18.6m£146£1,218
45Barking£18.5m£130£1,916
46Smethwick£18.2m£152£1,252
47Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£18.1m£150£1,316
48Bolton South and Walkden£18.0m£138£1,140
49Ilford North£17.9m£144£1,158
50Poplar and Limehouse£17.9m£120£2,556

League table of every constituency for the latest period

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

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