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Leicester East has the highest spending on Pension Credit per resident in 2023-24.

Extra money for people over State Pension age who have a low income. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on Pension Credit, per resident, 2023-24, by constituency

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £64
  2. £64 to £87
  3. £87 to £109
  4. £109 to £132
  5. £132 to £154
  6. £154 and over
Spending on Pension Credit, 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 over1632Hackney South and Shoreditch 4Tottenham 5Queen's Park and Maida Vale 7Hackney North and Stoke Newington 9Leicester East 14Holborn and St Pancras 15Brent East 16Ealing Southall 25Kensington and Bayswater 32Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 41

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, 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.

£5.6bnFebruary 2023+£105.5mPopulation−£58.1mShare claiming+£793.4mPayment size£6.4bnMarch 2026
What changed: Pension Credit
February 2023£5.6bn
Population+£105.5m
Share claiming−£58.1m
Payment size+£793.4m
March 2026£6.4bn
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.

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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 Pension Credit, 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 Pension Credit for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Leicester East£33.2m£261£1,989
2Queen's Park and Maida Vale£30.3m£244£2,417
3Brent East£28.4m£210£1,917
4Tottenham£28.4m£205£2,504
5Ealing Southall£25.2m£194£1,684
6Holborn and St Pancras£21.1m£190£1,961
7Hackney South and Shoreditch£21.8m£187£2,613
8Hackney North and Stoke Newington£21.9m£186£2,285
9Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£23.2m£185£1,385
10Kensington and Bayswater£25.0m£185£1,496
11East Ham£24.4m£180£2,398
12Glasgow North East£20.2m£179£1,453
13Harrow East£21.5m£178£1,108
14Bethnal Green and Stepney£23.5m£176£3,066
15Peckham£19.4m£175£2,219
16Southgate and Wood Green£22.3m£175£1,293
17Ealing North£22.8m£173£1,440
18Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£18.4m£173£2,010
19Glasgow East£17.6m£171£1,350
20Harrow West£21.3m£170£1,458
21Liverpool Riverside£21.6m£170£1,851
22Islington North£18.5m£167£1,892
23Feltham and Heston£22.9m£166£1,546
24Brent West£23.1m£163£1,423
25Aldershot£19.4m£159£1,035
26Chelsea and Fulham£19.3m£158£1,316
27Ealing Central and Acton£21.6m£158£1,468
28Hampstead and Highgate£18.7m£157£1,235
29Leicester South£19.3m£157£1,608
30Birmingham Perry Barr£19.4m£156£1,521
31Cities of London and Westminster£19.9m£153£1,257
32Birmingham Ladywood£24.7m£153£2,885
33Knowsley£14.8m£153£971
34Islington South and Finsbury£18.4m£153£1,778
35Liverpool Walton£15.3m£150£979
36Glasgow South West£14.9m£149£1,134
37Hammersmith and Chiswick£17.5m£149£1,294
37Liverpool West Derby£14.9m£149£900
39Finchley and Golders Green£19.1m£149£1,005
40Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£17.3m£145£1,279
41West Ham and Beckton£20.8m£145£2,241
42Ilford South£19.5m£144£1,614
43Smethwick£17.0m£144£1,166
44Blackpool South£15.9m£143£811
45Hendon£19.3m£142£1,308
46Clacton£14.4m£142£468
47Hayes and Harlington£19.3m£141£1,553
48Torbay£14.7m£140£564
49Brentford and Isleworth£18.3m£140£1,222
50Wolverhampton South East£17.5m£139£1,051

League table of every constituency for the latest period

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

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