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Birmingham Ladywood has the highest spending on pensioner benefits per person aged 66 and over in 2023-24.

State Pension, Pension Credit, Attendance Allowance and winter heating payments, with the Scottish benefits that replace them. Per person figures use people aged 66 and over, the State Pension age. 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 £12,156
£12,156 to £12,435
£12,435 to £12,714
£12,714 to £12,993
£12,993 to £13,272
£13,272 and over

Estimated value

Spending on pensioner benefits, 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.

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Each line is one of the 631 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, State Pension: 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: State Pension
February 2023	£119.8bn
Population	+£2.3bn
Share claiming	+£5.4bn
Payment size	+£16.3bn
March 2026	£143.9bn

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.

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 pensioner benefits, 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 pensioner benefits for every constituency, 2023-24
Rank					Notes
1	Birmingham Ladywood	£123.1m	£760	£14,361
2	Liverpool Riverside	£165.0m	£1,295	£14,120
3	Glasgow East	£182.7m	£1,771	£14,006	Shared out, Estimated
4	Manchester Rusholme	£83.8m	£710	£13,982
5	Glasgow North East	£192.7m	£1,702	£13,835	Shared out, Estimated
6	Bermondsey and Old Southwark	£99.5m	£904	£13,710
7	Hackney South and Shoreditch	£114.0m	£981	£13,687
8	Lewisham North	£113.9m	£971	£13,644
9	Islington South and Finsbury	£141.2m	£1,169	£13,626
10	Glasgow North	£158.8m	£1,404	£13,607	Shared out, Estimated
11	Bethnal Green and Stepney	£104.1m	£780	£13,603
12	Glasgow South	£182.6m	£1,988	£13,572	Shared out, Estimated
13	Holborn and St Pancras	£145.8m	£1,312	£13,555
14	Bristol Central	£93.8m	£935	£13,548
15	Islington North	£132.6m	£1,198	£13,540
16	Leeds South	£163.3m	£1,267	£13,510
17	Leeds Central and Headingley	£100.3m	£889	£13,491
18	Coatbridge and Bellshill	£210.7m	£2,215	£13,485	Shared out, Estimated
19	Airdrie and Shotts	£209.3m	£2,236	£13,463	Shared out, Estimated
20	Liverpool Walton	£210.8m	£2,056	£13,460
21	Bradford East	£163.3m	£1,332	£13,432
22	Clapham and Brixton Hill	£102.2m	£982	£13,347
23	Knowsley	£203.9m	£2,098	£13,345
24	Tottenham	£151.1m	£1,093	£13,317
25	Stoke-on-Trent Central	£215.1m	£1,831	£13,314
26	Hartlepool	£238.5m	£2,486	£13,309
27	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	£166.7m	£1,343	£13,305
28	Salford	£155.3m	£1,161	£13,271
29	Glasgow West	£184.4m	£1,820	£13,256	Shared out, Estimated
30	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	£126.9m	£1,076	£13,212
31	Glasgow South West	£173.7m	£1,738	£13,198	Shared out, Estimated
32	Aberafan Maesteg	£240.0m	£2,602	£13,186
33	Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke	£226.6m	£2,321	£13,184	Shared out, Estimated
34	Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton	£202.0m	£1,750	£13,171
35	Cardiff South and Penarth	£175.8m	£1,569	£13,166
36	Walthamstow	£122.4m	£988	£13,134
37	Poplar and Limehouse	£88.2m	£594	£13,127
38	Liverpool Wavertree	£186.9m	£1,751	£13,118
39	West Dunbartonshire	£229.7m	£2,505	£13,117	Shared out, Estimated
40	Thurrock	£165.3m	£1,341	£13,112
41	Swansea West	£231.7m	£2,081	£13,102
42	Telford	£209.9m	£1,926	£13,096
43	Northampton South	£213.6m	£1,878	£13,094
44	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£238.2m	£2,499	£13,087
45	Nottingham East	£139.2m	£1,127	£13,085
46	Coventry East	£199.8m	£1,635	£13,083
47	Hamilton and Clyde Valley	£246.9m	£2,527	£13,073	Shared out, Estimated
48	Broxbourne	£240.2m	£2,182	£13,073
49	Peckham	£114.3m	£1,029	£13,065
50	Manchester Central	£134.2m	£997	£13,062

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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