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Bethnal Green and Stepney has the highest spending on Pension Credit per person aged 66 and over 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, per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, by constituency

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £522
  2. £522 to £829
  3. £829 to £1,137
  4. £1,137 to £1,445
  5. £1,445 to £1,752
  6. £1,752 and over
Spending on Pension Credit, per person aged 66 and over, 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 per person aged 66 and over are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1632Bethnal Green and Stepney 1Birmingham Ladywood 2Manchester Rusholme 3Hackney South and Shoreditch 4Tottenham 5Poplar and Limehouse 6East Ham 7Queen's Park and Maida Vale 8Hackney North and Stoke Newington 9West Ham and Beckton 10

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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This chart needs JavaScript. Each area's expected level is on its area page.
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 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 Pension Credit for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Bethnal Green and Stepney£24.9m£185£3,173
2Birmingham Ladywood£26.0m£156£2,993
3Manchester Rusholme£17.5m£145£2,851
4Hackney South and Shoreditch£23.3m£197£2,711
5Tottenham£30.6m£221£2,614
6Poplar and Limehouse£17.9m£120£2,556
7East Ham£26.4m£193£2,529
8Queen's Park and Maida Vale£32.5m£261£2,515
9Hackney North and Stoke Newington£23.8m£202£2,418
10West Ham and Beckton£23.1m£156£2,373
11Peckham£20.5m£183£2,241
12Stratford and Bow£19.7m£143£2,237
13Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£19.8m£187£2,076
14Brent East£31.1m£227£2,050
15Leicester East£34.6m£271£2,035
16Holborn and St Pancras£22.5m£201£2,033
17Islington North£19.8m£179£1,984
18Bermondsey and Old Southwark£14.5m£131£1,929
19Liverpool Riverside£22.8m£173£1,921
20Barking£18.5m£130£1,916
21Clapham and Brixton Hill£14.8m£143£1,880
22Islington South and Finsbury£19.8m£163£1,859
23Lewisham North£15.8m£134£1,831
24Greenwich and Woolwich£16.7m£135£1,783
25Ealing Southall£27.4m£207£1,773
26Ilford South£21.2m£153£1,717
27Hayes and Harlington£21.0m£149£1,672
28Walthamstow£15.8m£127£1,660
29Feltham and Heston£25.1m£179£1,656
30Leicester South£20.1m£161£1,637
31Birmingham Perry Barr£20.5m£164£1,596
32Kensington and Bayswater£26.6m£201£1,568
33Croydon West£17.3m£131£1,547
34Ealing Central and Acton£23.0m£165£1,526
35Ealing North£24.9m£185£1,524
36Glasgow North East£21.6m£188£1,518
37Harrow West£22.3m£175£1,505
38Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£25.4m£203£1,479
39Erith and Thamesmead£19.6m£141£1,474
40Brent West£24.7m£170£1,474
41Manchester Central£15.0m£108£1,456
42Glasgow East£18.8m£178£1,411
43Hendon£21.2m£152£1,382
44Southgate and Wood Green£24.3m£190£1,368
45Hammersmith and Chiswick£18.8m£159£1,364
46Bradford West£16.9m£133£1,361
47Dulwich and West Norwood£14.3m£136£1,351
48Chelsea and Fulham£20.5m£168£1,348
49Cities of London and Westminster£21.4m£163£1,317
50Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£18.1m£150£1,316

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, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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