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Blaenau Gwent has the highest spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment per resident in 2024-25.

Help with the extra costs of a long-term health condition or disability. In Scotland, Adult Disability Payment replaces Personal Independence Payment. Shown in 2026-27 prices, using CPI inflation, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment, per resident, 2024-25, by local authority

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £301
  2. £301 to £403
  3. £403 to £505
  4. £505 to £607
  5. £607 to £710
  6. £710 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment, per resident, 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 resident are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer resident1350Blaenau Gwent 1Merthyr Tydfil 2Knowsley 3Neath Port Talbot 4Caerphilly 5Blackpool 6Liverpool 7Hartlepool 8Rhondda Cynon Taf 9Torfaen 10

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment: yearly spending at the rate in July 2023 and in July 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.

£21.8bnJuly 2023+£265.1mPopulation+£7.1bnShare claiming+£1.3bnPayment size£30.5bnJuly 2026
What changed: Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment
July 2023£21.8bn
Population+£265.1m
Share claiming+£7.1bn
Payment size+£1.3bn
July 2026£30.5bn
The share claiming is the number of people claiming per resident. 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?

Benefit spending per resident, 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 = £765 − £935 × share aged 0 to 15 + £9,046 × share aged 66 and over − £177 × deprivation decile + £267 × ln(median pay) + £581 × Wales + £224 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 346 local authorities. R² = 0.87. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every local authority

Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment, 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 350 rows are shown.

Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment for every local authority, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Blaenau Gwent£65.8m£972
2Merthyr Tydfil£55.7m£948
3Knowsley£146.8m£908
4Neath Port Talbot£129.0m£905
5Caerphilly£153.8m£873
6Blackpool£117.8m£822
7Liverpool£415.7m£818
8Hartlepool£79.5m£812
9Rhondda Cynon Taf£194.5m£805
10Torfaen£75.5m£803
11Inverclyde£62.5m£794Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
12West Dunbartonshire£69.9m£787Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
13North Lanarkshire£267.8m£779Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
14Dundee City£114.9m£769Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
15Sunderland£217.8m£760
16Halton£99.7m£760
17North Ayrshire£101.4m£758Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
18South Tyneside£111.8m£742
19Glasgow City£478.4m£736Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
20Bridgend£107.0m£727
21Denbighshire£71.0m£725
22County Durham£386.9m£721
23Wirral£234.7m£715
24St. Helens£134.2m£712
25Barnsley£177.9m£708
26Carmarthenshire£134.5m£706
27East Ayrshire£85.2m£702Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
28Swansea£175.8m£701
29Redcar and Cleveland£97.1m£700
30Middlesbrough£107.5m£695
31Bolsover£57.9m£691
32Clackmannanshire£35.6m£685Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
33Chesterfield£71.1m£672
34Great Yarmouth£67.5m£671
35East Lindsey£96.4m£663
36Sefton£188.5m£661
37Rotherham£182.4m£660
38Mansfield£73.9m£653
39South Lanarkshire£215.1m£646Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
39West Lothian£120.2m£646Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
41Gateshead£128.8m£640
42Hyndburn£54.9m£639
43Thanet£89.9m£632
44Wrexham£86.3m£626
45Ashfield£80.7m£624
46Newport£104.4m£624
47Renfrewshire£117.1m£621Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
48Dumfries and Galloway£90.4m£619Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
49Burnley£61.4m£619
50Falkirk£98.7m£618Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits

League table of every local authority for the latest period

Values are per resident 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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