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Clacton has the highest total spending on pensioner benefits in 2024-25.

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 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on pensioner benefits, total, 2024-25, by constituency

Total, low to high

  1. Under £160.1m
  2. £160.1m to £198.8m
  3. £198.8m to £237.4m
  4. £237.4m to £276.1m
  5. £276.1m to £314.7m
  6. £314.7m and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on pensioner benefits, 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

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Each line is one of the 631 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 over1631Clacton 134Boston and Skegness 280Louth and Horncastle 356Chichester 395Bexhill and Battle 417Christchurch 426Bognor Regis and Littlehampton 436North Norfolk 565South Shropshire 591West Dorset 607

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. 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation.

Benefit
£119.8bnFebruary 2023+£2.3bnPopulation+£5.4bnShare claiming+£16.3bnPayment size£143.9bnMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£119.8bn
Population+£2.3bn
Share claiming+£5.4bn
Payment size+£16.3bn
March 2026£143.9bn
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 pensioner benefits, 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 pensioner benefits for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Clacton£410.1m£3,981£13,155
2Christchurch£378.7m£4,289£12,669
3Louth and Horncastle£377.7m£3,832£12,772
4West Dorset£374.5m£3,887£12,287
5North Norfolk£367.1m£4,223£12,428
6Bognor Regis and Littlehampton£366.7m£3,362£12,660
7Boston and Skegness£359.4m£3,054£12,872
8Bexhill and Battle£359.0m£3,890£12,682
9South Shropshire£358.1m£3,714£12,343
10Chichester£357.1m£3,263£12,720
11West Worcestershire£356.3m£3,476£12,620
12Honiton and Sidmouth£354.1m£3,780£12,168
13Arundel and South Downs£353.6m£3,567£12,537
14New Forest West£353.2m£4,154£12,592
15Suffolk Coastal£349.6m£3,668£12,346
16Bridlington and The Wolds£346.2m£3,634£12,454
17Herne Bay and Sandwich£345.0m£3,365£12,709
18Fylde£344.5m£3,396£12,331
19Torridge and Tavistock£342.9m£3,511£12,365
20Thirsk and Malton£340.6m£3,411£12,493
21North Northumberland£339.5m£3,619£12,420
22Lewes£338.8m£3,479£12,725
23South Holland and The Deepings£337.0m£2,949£12,765
24Skipton and Ripon£335.9m£3,350£12,456
25North West Norfolk£335.7m£3,247£12,589
26South Dorset£333.5m£3,315£12,394
27Worthing West£333.1m£3,239£12,490
28South Devon£331.6m£3,593£12,316
29Torbay£329.1m£3,143£12,548
30Morecambe and Lunesdale£327.7m£3,283£12,828
31Sefton Central£327.7m£3,510£13,137
32Stratford-on-Avon£327.1m£3,193£12,608
33Waveney Valley£326.6m£3,574£12,399
34North Herefordshire£325.1m£3,504£12,323
35Tiverton and Minehead£324.7m£3,489£12,398
36Mid Dorset and North Poole£323.4m£3,308£12,783
37Scarborough and Whitby£321.7m£3,255£12,629
38Wyre Forest£321.3m£3,092£12,795
39Clwyd North£321.2m£3,170£13,180
40Dumfries and Galloway£320.8m£3,330£12,690Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
41North Dorset£320.4m£3,346£12,568
42Hexham£319.2m£3,314£12,448
43Mid and South Pembrokeshire£318.5m£3,091£12,490
44Blackpool North and Fleetwood£318.4m£3,259£12,731
45Penrith and Solway£318.4m£3,196£12,432
46Newton Abbot£317.5m£3,344£12,667
47South West Norfolk£316.9m£2,967£12,730
48Newark£316.9m£2,881£12,542
49North Devon£316.6m£3,128£12,486
50Maldon£316.5m£3,065£12,851

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are total 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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