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Glasgow North has the highest spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment per person aged 66 and over in 2023-24.

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.

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

Under £562
£562 to £655
£655 to £749
£749 to £842
£842 to £935
£935 and over

Estimated value

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, per person aged 66 and over, 2023-24, 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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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 person aged 66 and over are drawn in dark lines.

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.

What changed: Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment
February 2023	£6.4bn
Population	+£130.3m
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.

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 Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, 2023-24. 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 632 rows are shown.

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment for every constituency, 2023-24
Rank					Notes
1	Glasgow North	£16.0m	£141	£1,370	Shared out, Estimated
2	Bethnal Green and Stepney	£9.5m	£71	£1,237
3	Birmingham Ladywood	£10.5m	£65	£1,229
4	Glasgow North East	£15.7m	£139	£1,127	Shared out, Estimated
5	Glasgow East	£14.6m	£142	£1,120	Shared out, Estimated
6	Hartlepool	£19.8m	£206	£1,105
7	Manchester Rusholme	£6.5m	£55	£1,092
8	Coatbridge and Bellshill	£16.9m	£178	£1,083	Shared out, Estimated
9	Glasgow South West	£14.1m	£141	£1,071	Shared out, Estimated
10	Airdrie and Shotts	£16.6m	£177	£1,067	Shared out, Estimated
11	Liverpool Riverside	£12.3m	£97	£1,053
12	Glasgow West	£14.5m	£143	£1,044	Shared out, Estimated
13	Neath and Swansea East	£20.2m	£200	£1,043
14	Swansea West	£18.0m	£162	£1,019
15	Glasgow South	£13.4m	£146	£996	Shared out, Estimated
16	Newport East	£17.0m	£148	£988
17	Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke	£16.9m	£173	£984	Shared out, Estimated
18	Llanelli	£20.1m	£211	£982
19	Aberafan Maesteg	£17.8m	£193	£978
20	Liverpool Walton	£15.2m	£149	£973
21	Smethwick	£14.1m	£119	£966
22	Whitehaven and Workington	£19.6m	£208	£965
23	Birmingham Perry Barr	£12.3m	£98	£961
24	Stratford and Bow	£8.1m	£60	£951
25	Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch	£16.2m	£176	£943	Shared out, Estimated
26	Newport West and Islwyn	£18.1m	£176	£935
27	Clwyd North	£22.5m	£224	£935
28	Bradford East	£11.4m	£93	£934
29	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£16.8m	£176	£922
30	Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West	£16.2m	£118	£921
31	Knowsley	£14.1m	£145	£920
32	West Dunbartonshire	£16.1m	£176	£920	Shared out, Estimated
33	Liverpool West Derby	£15.1m	£152	£917
34	Bradford West	£11.1m	£89	£915
35	Cardiff South and Penarth	£12.1m	£108	£909
36	Birmingham Yardley	£12.1m	£104	£902
37	West Bromwich	£14.8m	£131	£896
38	Peckham	£7.8m	£70	£895
39	Tipton and Wednesbury	£14.8m	£127	£893
40	Rhondda and Ogmore	£16.9m	£167	£893
41	Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North	£12.9m	£104	£891
42	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£13.4m	£118	£890
43	St Helens South and Whiston	£16.1m	£166	£889
44	Na h-Eileanan an Iar	£5.9m	£228	£889	Shared out, Estimated
45	Clacton	£27.4m	£269	£889
46	Sunderland Central	£16.7m	£163	£885
47	Poplar and Limehouse	£5.9m	£40	£885
48	Gower	£20.6m	£209	£885
49	Bridgend	£17.5m	£182	£883
50	Caerphilly	£16.4m	£170	£882

League table of every constituency 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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