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Glasgow North East has the most people receiving Pension Credit per 1,000 residents in March 2026.

People receiving Pension Credit, in each month with published figures. Extra money for people over State Pension age who have a low income.

Per 1,000 residents, low to high

Under 14.6
14.6 to 18.7
18.7 to 22.7
22.7 to 26.7
26.7 to 30.7
30.7 and over

People receiving Pension Credit, per 1,000 residents, March 2026, 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

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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 1,000 residents are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

South Shields, 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.

What changed: Pension Credit
February 2023	£10.5m
Population	+£0.21m
Share claiming	+£772
Payment size	+£1.7m
March 2026	£12.4m

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.

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

People receiving Pension Credit, 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 632 rows are shown.

People receiving Pension Credit for every constituency, March 2026
Rank
1	Glasgow North East	4,774	41.5	335.8
2	Knowsley	3,757	37.9	239.2
3	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	4,675	37.5	362.0
4	Glasgow East	3,914	37.1	293.4
5	Liverpool Walton	3,717	36.3	232.9
6	Blackpool South	4,078	36.2	205.3
7	Bootle	3,774	36.2	219.9
8	Clacton	3,692	35.8	118.4
9	Liverpool West Derby	3,603	35.6	214.0
10	Hartlepool	3,469	35.3	189.4
11	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	3,355	35.1	182.6
12	Torbay	3,658	34.9	139.5
13	Liverpool Riverside	4,590	34.9	387.5
14	South Shields	3,135	34.7	163.2
15	Leicester East	4,417	34.5	259.6
16	Jarrow and Gateshead East	3,328	34.5	182.9
17	Clwyd North	3,476	34.3	142.6
18	Na h-Eileanan an Iar	882	34.0	131.5
19	Glasgow South West	3,395	33.4	250.6
20	Redcar	3,175	33.2	151.8
21	Holborn and St Pancras	3,674	32.8	331.9
22	Washington and Gateshead South	3,164	32.8	160.2
23	Tottenham	4,508	32.6	385.3
24	Houghton and Sunderland South	3,454	32.5	164.1
25	North Ayrshire and Arran	2,930	32.2	131.6
26	Aberafan Maesteg	2,979	32.1	161.2
27	Liverpool Garston	3,042	32.1	162.2
28	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	3,759	32.0	382.5
29	Blackpool North and Fleetwood	3,116	31.9	124.6
30	Sunderland Central	3,336	31.8	173.8
31	West Dunbartonshire	2,918	31.8	163.4
32	Wallasey	3,126	31.8	156.4
33	Boston and Skegness	3,742	31.8	134.0
34	Brent East	4,359	31.8	287.2
35	Rhondda and Ogmore	3,209	31.7	168.1
36	Isle of Wight East	2,193	31.6	103.2
37	Hastings and Rye	3,315	31.5	146.0
38	Coatbridge and Bellshill	3,005	31.4	187.3
39	East Thanet	3,334	31.4	149.9
40	Easington	3,017	31.4	161.3
41	St Ives	2,807	31.3	114.2
42	Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes	3,371	31.1	170.1
43	Bridlington and The Wolds	2,965	31.1	106.7
44	Hackney South and Shoreditch	3,666	31.1	426.8
45	Great Yarmouth	3,122	31.1	132.3
46	Birkenhead	3,402	31.0	179.1
47	Vauxhall and Camberwell Green	3,263	30.8	342.6
48	Dumfries and Galloway	2,963	30.8	117.2
49	Scarborough and Whitby	3,027	30.6	118.8
50	Edmonton and Winchmore Hill	3,830	30.6	222.6

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per 1,000 residents unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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