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Hartlepool has the highest spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment per resident in 2024-25.

Money for people who care for a disabled person for at least 35 hours a week. In Scotland, Carer Support Payment replaces Carer's Allowance. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment, per resident, 2024-25, by local authority

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £48
  2. £48 to £63
  3. £63 to £79
  4. £79 to £94
  5. £94 to £110
  6. £110 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support 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

Total or per person

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 resident are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641350Hartlepool 1Bradford 2Merthyr Tydfil 3Neath Port Talbot 4Knowsley 5Sunderland 6Rotherham 7Blaenau Gwent 10Walsall 11Middlesbrough 16

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Carer's Allowance and Carer Support 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.

£3.6bnFebruary 2023+£40.9mPopulation+£579.2mShare claiming+£217.0mPayment size£4.4bnMarch 2026
What changed: Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment
February 2023£3.6bn
Population+£40.9m
Share claiming+£579.2m
Payment size+£217.0m
March 2026£4.4bn
The share claiming is the number of people claiming per person aged 16 to 64. 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 working-age benefits per person aged 16 to 64, 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.

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Expected level = −£567 + £3,670 × share aged 0 to 15 − £115 × share aged 66 and over − £170 × deprivation decile + £257 × ln(median pay) + £432 × Wales + £94 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 348 local authorities. R² = 0.85. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every local authority

Spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support 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 Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment for every local authority, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Hartlepool£14.0m£143£234
2Bradford£76.9m£137£221
3Merthyr Tydfil£7.8m£133£216
4Knowsley£21.4m£132£211
5Neath Port Talbot£18.6m£130£214
6Sunderland£37.1m£129£209
7Rotherham£35.4m£128£209
8Blaenau Gwent£8.5m£125£203
9Walsall£36.4m£124£201
10Middlesbrough£18.9m£122£194
11Blackpool£17.3m£121£197
12Redcar and Cleveland£16.7m£120£206
13South Tyneside£18.0m£119£197
14Birmingham£139.7m£118£181
15Great Yarmouth£11.7m£116£200
16Blackburn with Darwen£18.7m£116£183
17Barnsley£29.0m£115£187
18Sandwell£40.6m£115£181
19County Durham£61.3m£114£185
20Oldham£28.6m£114£184
21Caerphilly£19.8m£113£183
22Pendle£11.2m£112£185
23East Lindsey£16.3m£112£206
24Liverpool£56.8m£112£165
25Burnley£11.0m£111£179
26Thanet£15.7m£110£189
27St. Helens£20.5m£109£176
28Swale£17.2m£108£177
29Tendring£16.9m£108£198
30Rhondda Cynon Taf£26.0m£108£173
31Halton£14.0m£107£172
32Kingston upon Hull, City of£29.3m£107£165
33Derby£29.2m£107£167
34Stockton-on-Tees£21.8m£106£173
35North Ayrshire£14.2m£106£177Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
36Ashfield£13.6m£106£172
37Sheffield£61.2m£105£161
38North East Lincolnshire£16.8m£105£176
39Doncaster£33.5m£105£170
40Bolsover£8.7m£104£166
41Wolverhampton£29.0m£103£165
42Tower Hamlets£34.7m£103£133
43Torfaen£9.7m£103£170
44East Ayrshire£12.5m£103£169Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
45Mansfield£11.6m£102£166
46Denbighshire£10.0m£102£178
47Glasgow City£66.4m£102£144Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
48Wirral£33.4m£102£171
49North Lanarkshire£34.9m£102£159Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
50Inverclyde£8.0m£102£165Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits

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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