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Clacton has the highest spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment per resident in 2023-24.

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.

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, per resident, 2023-24, by constituency

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £80
  2. £80 to £105
  3. £105 to £129
  4. £129 to £154
  5. £154 to £179
  6. £179 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, per resident, 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.
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 632 ranked constituencies. 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 66 and over1632Hartlepool 6Llanelli 18Whitehaven and Workington 22Clwyd North 27Na h-Eileanan an Iar 44Clacton 45Gower 48Blackpool North and Fleetwood 70Louth and Horncastle 220Christchurch 418

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.

£6.4bnFebruary 2023+£130.5mPopulation+£1.7bnShare claiming+£446.5mPayment size£8.7bnMarch 2026
What changed: Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment
February 2023£6.4bn
Population+£130.5m
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.

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This chart needs JavaScript. Each area's expected level is on its area page.
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 Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, 2023-24. 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 632 rows are shown.

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Clacton£27.7m£272£899
2Na h-Eileanan an Iar£6.0m£230£899Shared out, Estimated
3Clwyd North£22.8m£226£945
4Blackpool North and Fleetwood£21.2m£219£862
5Llanelli£20.3m£213£992
6Louth and Horncastle£20.9m£212£722
7Gower£20.8m£211£895
8Whitehaven and Workington£19.8m£210£976
9Christchurch£18.4m£209£621
10Hartlepool£20.0m£209£1,117
11Folkestone and Hythe£19.4m£209£862
12Dwyfor Meirionnydd£19.7m£206£842
13Sefton Central£19.1m£206£773
14Neath and Swansea East£20.4m£202£1,054
15Caerfyrddin£19.0m£200£793
16Castle Point£18.4m£199£820
17Bexhill and Battle£18.1m£198£643
18Ynys Môn£13.6m£196£765
19Morecambe and Lunesdale£19.4m£196£769
20Aberafan Maesteg£18.0m£195£989
21Wirral West£17.3m£195£712
22North Norfolk£16.8m£193£578
23Clwyd East£18.6m£192£783
24Fylde£19.1m£191£699
25Torbay£19.9m£190£765
26Scarborough and Whitby£18.7m£190£749
27Isle of Wight East£13.1m£189£624
28Dumfries and Galloway£18.2m£189£731Shared out, Estimated
29Ceredigion Preseli£17.9m£188£732
30Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe£17.2m£187£703
31New Forest West£15.8m£187£570
32Bangor Aberconwy£17.3m£184£819
33Herne Bay and Sandwich£18.6m£184£698
34North Ayrshire and Arran£16.7m£184£763Shared out, Estimated
35Bridgend£17.7m£184£892
36Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West£16.5m£183£855Shared out, Estimated
37Mid and South Pembrokeshire£18.5m£181£738
38North Northumberland£16.9m£181£635
39North West Norfolk£18.7m£180£707
40Bridlington and The Wolds£17.0m£180£623
41Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock£16.2m£180£743Shared out, Estimated
42Coatbridge and Bellshill£17.1m£180£1,095Shared out, Estimated
43Airdrie and Shotts£16.8m£179£1,078Shared out, Estimated
44Westmorland and Lonsdale£16.4m£179£663
45Newton Abbot£16.9m£179£687
46Kingswinford and South Staffordshire£16.1m£179£693
47West Dorset£17.0m£179£571
48North Durham£17.3m£179£841
49Southport£17.6m£178£728
50Newport West and Islwyn£18.3m£178£946

League table of every constituency 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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