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Bethnal Green and Stepney has the highest spending on Pension Credit per person aged 66 and over in 2023-24.

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, 2023-24, by constituency

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £501
  2. £501 to £796
  3. £796 to £1,090
  4. £1,090 to £1,385
  5. £1,385 to £1,680
  6. £1,680 and over
Spending on Pension Credit, 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

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 6Queen's Park and Maida Vale 7East Ham 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, 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 Pension Credit for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Bethnal Green and Stepney£23.2m£174£3,033
2Birmingham Ladywood£24.5m£151£2,854
3Manchester Rusholme£16.2m£138£2,708
4Hackney South and Shoreditch£21.5m£185£2,585
5Tottenham£28.1m£203£2,477
6Poplar and Limehouse£16.5m£111£2,454
7Queen's Park and Maida Vale£30.0m£241£2,391
8East Ham£24.2m£178£2,372
9Hackney North and Stoke Newington£21.7m£184£2,261
10West Ham and Beckton£20.6m£143£2,217
11Peckham£19.2m£173£2,194
12Stratford and Bow£18.2m£134£2,144
13Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£18.2m£171£1,988
14Leicester East£32.8m£258£1,967
15Holborn and St Pancras£20.9m£188£1,939
16Brent East£28.1m£207£1,896
17Islington North£18.3m£166£1,871
18Liverpool Riverside£21.4m£168£1,831
19Bermondsey and Old Southwark£13.3m£121£1,829
20Clapham and Brixton Hill£13.7m£131£1,783
21Islington South and Finsbury£18.2m£151£1,759
22Barking£16.4m£119£1,739
23Lewisham North£14.5m£123£1,732
24Greenwich and Woolwich£15.3m£125£1,674
25Ealing Southall£25.0m£192£1,666
26Ilford South£19.3m£142£1,597
27Walthamstow£14.9m£120£1,596
28Leicester South£19.1m£155£1,591
29Hayes and Harlington£19.1m£140£1,536
30Feltham and Heston£22.7m£164£1,529
31Birmingham Perry Barr£19.2m£154£1,505
32Kensington and Bayswater£24.7m£183£1,480
33Croydon West£15.7m£122£1,453
34Ealing Central and Acton£21.3m£156£1,452
35Harrow West£21.0m£168£1,442
36Glasgow North East£20.0m£177£1,438
37Ealing North£22.5m£171£1,424
38Brent West£22.9m£161£1,407
39Erith and Thamesmead£18.0m£131£1,387
40Manchester Central£14.1m£105£1,375
41Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£23.0m£183£1,370
42Glasgow East£17.4m£169£1,335
43Chelsea and Fulham£19.1m£157£1,302
44Hendon£19.1m£140£1,294
45Bradford West£15.7m£126£1,293
46Dulwich and West Norwood£13.4m£126£1,289
47Hammersmith and Chiswick£17.3m£147£1,280
48Southgate and Wood Green£22.0m£173£1,279
49Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£17.1m£144£1,265
50Cities of London and Westminster£19.7m£151£1,244

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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