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Clacton 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 £87
£87 to £115
£115 to £142
£142 to £169
£169 to £197
£197 and over

Estimated value

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, per resident, 2024-25, 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 resident are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Sefton Central, 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	£16.7m
Population	+£0.24m
Share claiming	+£5.2m
Payment size	+£1.2m
March 2026	£23.3m

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 = £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, 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 632 rows are shown.

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment for every constituency, 2024-25
Rank					Notes
1	Clacton	£31.2m	£303	£1,002
2	Na h-Eileanan an Iar	£6.7m	£259	£1,002	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
3	Clwyd North	£25.0m	£246	£1,025
4	Hartlepool	£23.9m	£243	£1,304
5	Blackpool North and Fleetwood	£23.7m	£243	£948
6	Llanelli	£22.9m	£240	£1,102
7	Louth and Horncastle	£23.6m	£239	£796
8	Christchurch	£20.6m	£233	£689
9	Sefton Central	£21.6m	£231	£865
10	Whitehaven and Workington	£21.8m	£230	£1,051
11	Gower	£22.7m	£229	£959
12	Folkestone and Hythe	£21.2m	£226	£927
13	Castle Point	£20.8m	£225	£917
14	Neath and Swansea East	£22.8m	£224	£1,163
15	Caerfyrddin	£21.4m	£224	£874
16	Ynys Môn	£15.4m	£224	£864
17	Dwyfor Meirionnydd	£21.5m	£224	£903
18	North Norfolk	£19.2m	£221	£650
19	Wirral West	£19.4m	£218	£788
20	Aberafan Maesteg	£20.0m	£216	£1,084
21	Bexhill and Battle	£19.9m	£215	£701
22	Scarborough and Whitby	£21.0m	£212	£824
23	Clwyd East	£20.6m	£212	£853
24	Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe	£19.6m	£212	£787
25	Dumfries and Galloway	£20.4m	£211	£806	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
26	Morecambe and Lunesdale	£21.0m	£210	£822
27	Isle of Wight East	£14.6m	£210	£685
28	Herne Bay and Sandwich	£21.2m	£207	£783
29	Bridlington and The Wolds	£19.7m	£207	£709
30	Fylde	£20.9m	£206	£749
31	Torbay	£21.6m	£206	£823
32	North Ayrshire and Arran	£18.7m	£206	£841	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
33	Ceredigion Preseli	£19.6m	£206	£796
34	Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West	£18.5m	£205	£945	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
35	Bridgend	£19.8m	£204	£979
36	New Forest West	£17.4m	£204	£619
37	Mid and South Pembrokeshire	£20.9m	£203	£818
38	Brigg and Immingham	£18.8m	£202	£824
39	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock	£18.2m	£202	£819	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
40	North Northumberland	£18.8m	£201	£689
41	Coatbridge and Bellshill	£19.2m	£201	£1,196	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
42	Airdrie and Shotts	£18.8m	£200	£1,189	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
43	Central Ayrshire	£17.9m	£200	£851	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
44	South Shields	£18.1m	£200	£941
45	West Dunbartonshire	£18.3m	£199	£1,023	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
46	Bangor Aberconwy	£18.8m	£199	£877
47	Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch	£18.4m	£199	£1,048	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
48	Newton Abbot	£18.8m	£198	£751
49	North West Norfolk	£20.5m	£198	£767
50	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£18.9m	£198	£1,030

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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