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Tendring has the highest spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment per resident in 2024-25.

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, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Per resident, low to high

Under £92
£92 to £119
£119 to £146
£146 to £173
£173 to £200
£200 and over

Estimated value

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, per resident, 2024-25, 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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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 resident 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

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, 2024-25. Rank is for per resident, 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.

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment for every local authority, 2024-25
Rank					Notes
1	Tendring	£42.5m	£272	£965
2	Na h-Eileanan Siar	£6.7m	£259	£1,002	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
3	Conwy	£28.9m	£253	£940
4	East Lindsey	£35.5m	£244	£816
5	Hartlepool	£23.9m	£244	£1,301
6	Wyre	£28.0m	£237	£875
7	Carmarthenshire	£44.3m	£232	£976
8	Denbighshire	£22.3m	£227	£952
9	Castle Point	£20.4m	£226	£916
10	Isle of Anglesey	£15.4m	£224	£862
11	Neath Port Talbot	£31.7m	£222	£1,078
12	Folkestone and Hythe	£24.4m	£218	£889
13	Rother	£20.8m	£216	£695
14	North Norfolk	£22.3m	£215	£649
15	Dumfries and Galloway	£31.1m	£213	£805	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
16	Bridgend	£31.1m	£211	£1,037
17	Inverclyde	£16.5m	£209	£974	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
18	Torbay	£29.2m	£209	£803
19	Powys	£27.8m	£206	£752
20	Caerphilly	£36.1m	£205	£1,044
21	Ceredigion	£14.9m	£205	£822
22	North Ayrshire	£27.3m	£204	£882	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
23	Pembrokeshire	£25.6m	£204	£795
24	South Ayrshire	£22.8m	£203	£785	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
25	Gwynedd	£24.3m	£202	£910
26	Fylde	£17.2m	£201	£729
27	Swansea	£50.3m	£201	£1,044
28	North Lanarkshire	£68.9m	£201	£1,160	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
29	West Dunbartonshire	£17.8m	£200	£1,030	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
30	Thanet	£28.2m	£199	£872
31	Sefton	£56.5m	£198	£879
32	Vale of Glamorgan	£26.7m	£197	£914
33	Monmouthshire	£18.7m	£196	£777
34	Torfaen	£18.4m	£196	£977
35	Arun	£33.1m	£194	£700
36	East Ayrshire	£23.4m	£193	£926	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
37	East Renfrewshire	£19.1m	£192	£924	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
38	Isle of Wight	£27.2m	£192	£668
39	Blaenau Gwent	£13.0m	£192	£983
40	King's Lynn and West Norfolk	£29.9m	£192	£758
41	St. Helens	£35.8m	£190	£977
42	Malvern Hills	£15.8m	£190	£697
43	Argyll and Bute	£16.6m	£190	£724	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
44	South Tyneside	£28.4m	£189	£932
45	Wirral	£61.8m	£188	£883
46	Cumberland	£52.7m	£188	£831
47	Northumberland	£62.1m	£188	£745
48	Redcar and Cleveland	£26.1m	£188	£825
49	Teignbridge	£26.0m	£188	£708
50	Dorset	£73.0m	£187	£643

League table of every local authority for the latest period

Values are per resident 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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