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Tendring has the most people on pension age disability benefits per 1,000 residents in March 2026.

People receiving Attendance Allowance or Pension Age Disability Payment, in each month with published figures. Help for people over State Pension age whose disability means they need care. In Scotland, Pension Age Disability Payment replaces Attendance Allowance.

Per 1,000 residents, low to high

Under 19.2
19.2 to 24.9
24.9 to 30.6
30.6 to 36.4
36.4 to 42.1
42.1 and over

People receiving Attendance Allowance or Pension Age Disability Payment, per 1,000 residents, March 2026, 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

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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 1,000 residents 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.

What changed: Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment
February 2023	£6.4bn
Population	+£138.9m
Share claiming	+£1.7bn
Payment size	+£446.5m
March 2026	£8.7bn

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.

Expected level = £12,909 + £3,353 × share aged 0 to 15 − £1,419 × share aged 66 and over − £40 × deprivation decile − £91 × ln(median pay) + £207 × Wales + £80 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 346 local authorities. R² = 0.35. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every local authority

People receiving Attendance Allowance or Pension Age Disability Payment, March 2026. Rank is for per 1,000 residents, 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.

People receiving Attendance Allowance or Pension Age Disability Payment for every local authority, March 2026
Rank					Notes
1	Tendring	8,937	57.1	202.8
2	East Lindsey	7,301	50.2	168.0
3	Conwy	5,719	50.0	185.9
4	Wyre	5,818	49.2	181.5
5	Hartlepool	4,800	49.0	261.4
6	North Ayrshire	6,500	48.6	210.3	Includes Scottish benefits
7	South Ayrshire	5,425	48.3	186.8	Includes Scottish benefits
8	Dumfries and Galloway	6,970	47.8	180.6	Includes Scottish benefits
9	Inverclyde	3,760	47.8	222.1	Includes Scottish benefits
10	Carmarthenshire	8,904	46.8	196.4
11	Na h-Eileanan Siar	1,210	46.7	180.5	Includes Scottish benefits
12	North Norfolk	4,822	46.6	140.6
13	Castle Point	4,199	46.6	188.6
14	Isle of Anglesey	3,177	46.1	177.3
15	East Ayrshire	5,590	46.1	221.6	Includes Scottish benefits
16	Denbighshire	4,468	45.7	191.1
17	Neath Port Talbot	6,417	45.0	218.2
18	Rother	4,266	44.5	142.7
19	Powys	5,832	43.2	158.0
20	Argyll and Bute	3,795	43.2	165.1	Includes Scottish benefits
21	Folkestone and Hythe	4,805	42.9	174.8
22	East Dunbartonshire	4,670	42.6	180.6	Includes Scottish benefits
23	Pembrokeshire	5,344	42.5	166.0
24	Caerphilly	7,485	42.5	216.4
25	Bridgend	6,245	42.5	208.3
26	Torbay	5,896	42.2	161.8
27	Fylde	3,602	42.2	152.9
28	North Lanarkshire	14,370	41.8	241.7	Includes Scottish benefits
29	Thanet	5,900	41.5	182.2
30	Sefton	11,750	41.2	182.9
31	West Dunbartonshire	3,645	41.0	211.3	Includes Scottish benefits
32	Isle of Wight	5,757	40.7	141.6
33	Redcar and Cleveland	5,635	40.6	178.3
34	Arun	6,883	40.3	145.9
35	Ceredigion	2,906	40.0	160.5
36	South Tyneside	6,012	39.9	197.0
37	Swansea	9,981	39.8	207.0
38	Monmouthshire	3,787	39.8	157.7
39	Blaenau Gwent	2,696	39.8	203.9
40	Fenland	4,196	39.8	179.9
41	Torfaen	3,733	39.7	198.3
42	Staffordshire Moorlands	3,822	39.6	154.0
43	King's Lynn and West Norfolk	6,177	39.5	156.4
44	Northumberland	13,036	39.4	156.4
45	Dorset	15,308	39.3	135.0
46	Torridge	2,732	39.2	139.6
47	South Lanarkshire	13,020	39.1	199.9	Includes Scottish benefits
48	Teignbridge	5,400	39.0	147.3
49	Gwynedd	4,698	38.9	175.5
50	Rochford	3,482	38.9	177.2

League table of every local authority for the latest period

Values are per 1,000 residents 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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