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Hartlepool has the highest spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment per person aged 66 and over in 2024-25.

Help for people over State Pension age whose disability means they need care. In Scotland, Pension Age Disability Payment replaces Attendance Allowance. Shown in 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, by local authority

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £605
  2. £605 to £693
  3. £693 to £780
  4. £780 to £867
  5. £867 to £955
  6. £955 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, by local authority. 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 350 ranked local authorities. 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 over1350Hartlepool 1Glasgow City 2North Lanarkshire 3Tower Hamlets 4Neath Port Talbot 5Caerphilly 6Swansea 7Bridgend 8West Dunbartonshire 9Newport 10

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment: 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.

£6.4bnFebruary 2023+£138.7mPopulation+£1.7bnShare claiming+£523.4mPayment size£8.8bnMarch 2026
What changed: Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment
February 2023£6.4bn
Population+£138.7m
Share claiming+£1.7bn
Payment size+£523.4m
March 2026£8.8bn
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. Scottish areas are left out because Social Security Scotland pays this benefit.

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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This chart needs JavaScript. Each area's expected level is on its area page.
Expected level = £12,909 + £3,353 × share aged 0 to 15 − £1,419 × share aged 66 and over − £40 × deprivation decile − £91 × ln(median pay) + £207 × Wales + £80 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 346 local authorities. R² = 0.35. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every local authority

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, 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 350 rows are shown.

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment for every local authority, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Hartlepool£24.0m£245£1,307
2Glasgow City£103.6m£159£1,231Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
3North Lanarkshire£69.2m£202£1,164Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
4Tower Hamlets£20.8m£62£1,152
5Neath Port Talbot£31.8m£223£1,083
6Caerphilly£36.3m£206£1,048
7Swansea£50.5m£202£1,048
8Bridgend£31.2m£212£1,042
9West Dunbartonshire£17.8m£201£1,034Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
10Newport£27.0m£161£1,021
11Knowsley£26.7m£165£1,015
12Sandwell£48.7m£138£1,015
13Liverpool£73.9m£145£1,012
14Na h-Eileanan Siar£6.7m£260£1,006Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
15Blaenau Gwent£13.1m£193£988
16Torfaen£18.5m£197£982
17St. Helens£35.9m£191£981
18Carmarthenshire£44.4m£233£980
19Inverclyde£16.6m£210£978Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
20Tendring£42.7m£273£969
21Gateshead£37.6m£187£963
22Manchester£49.2m£84£961
23Denbighshire£22.3m£228£956
24Rhondda Cynon Taf£43.5m£180£952
25Sunderland£53.3m£186£948
26Conwy£29.1m£254£944
27South Tyneside£28.6m£189£936
28East Ayrshire£23.5m£193£930Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
29Blackpool£26.2m£182£928
30East Renfrewshire£19.2m£193£928Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
31North East Lincolnshire£30.0m£188£921
32Newham£23.8m£63£920
33Castle Point£20.5m£227£920
34Hackney£19.1m£71£920
35Vale of Glamorgan£26.8m£198£917
36Gwynedd£24.5m£203£914
37Stockton-on-Tees£34.5m£168£911
38Birmingham£131.9m£112£910
39Walsall£43.3m£147£907
40Cardiff£47.5m£124£904
41South Lanarkshire£58.9m£177£904Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
42Dundee City£23.3m£156£903Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
43Merthyr Tydfil£9.8m£166£901
44Wolverhampton£38.0m£136£896
45Renfrewshire£31.6m£167£893Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
46Folkestone and Hythe£24.5m£219£892
47Rotherham£45.7m£166£891
48Bolsover£14.5m£173£891
49Wrexham£24.2m£176£890
50County Durham£98.3m£183£887

League table of every local authority 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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