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Leicester East has the highest spending on Pension Credit per resident in 2024-25.

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, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected Blackpool South: £148 per resident, 2024-25, 46th of 632 constituencies.

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £67
  2. £67 to £91
  3. £91 to £115
  4. £115 to £139
  5. £139 to £162
  6. £162 and over
Spending on Pension Credit, 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

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, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1632Hackney South and Shoreditch 4Tottenham 5Queen's Park and Maida Vale 8Hackney North and Stoke Newington 9Brent East 14Leicester East 15Holborn and St Pancras 16Ealing Southall 25Kensington and Bayswater 32Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 38Blackpool South 110

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Blackpool South, 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.

£15.0mFebruary 2023+£0.21mPopulation−£0.38mShare claiming+£2.3mPayment size£17.1mMarch 2026
What changed: Pension Credit
February 2023£15.0m
Population+£0.21m
Share claiming−£0.38m
Payment size+£2.3m
March 2026£17.1m
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, 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 Pension Credit for every constituency, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Leicester East£34.5m£270£2,026
2Queen's Park and Maida Vale£32.3m£260£2,505
3Brent East£31.0m£226£2,041
4Tottenham£30.5m£220£2,603
5Ealing Southall£27.3m£206£1,765
6Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£25.3m£203£1,473
7Hackney North and Stoke Newington£23.7m£202£2,407
8Holborn and St Pancras£22.4m£200£2,024
9Kensington and Bayswater£26.4m£200£1,562
10Hackney South and Shoreditch£23.2m£197£2,699
11East Ham£26.2m£192£2,518
12Southgate and Wood Green£24.2m£189£1,362
13Glasgow North East£21.5m£187£1,512
14Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£19.7m£186£2,068
15Ealing North£24.8m£185£1,518
16Bethnal Green and Stepney£24.8m£184£3,160
17Peckham£20.4m£183£2,231
18Harrow East£22.0m£181£1,112
19Feltham and Heston£25.0m£178£1,649
20Islington North£19.8m£178£1,975
21Glasgow East£18.7m£178£1,405
22Harrow West£22.2m£174£1,498
23Liverpool Riverside£22.7m£172£1,913
24Hampstead and Highgate£20.0m£170£1,302
25Brent West£24.6m£170£1,468
26Chelsea and Fulham£20.5m£167£1,342
27Ealing Central and Acton£22.9m£165£1,520
28Aldershot£20.4m£164£1,068
29Birmingham Perry Barr£20.4m£163£1,589
30Islington South and Finsbury£19.7m£162£1,851
31Cities of London and Westminster£21.3m£162£1,312
32Finchley and Golders Green£20.9m£160£1,076
33Leicester South£20.0m£160£1,630
34Hammersmith and Chiswick£18.8m£158£1,358
35Glasgow South West£16.0m£157£1,180
36Knowsley£15.5m£157£990
37Liverpool Walton£16.0m£157£1,005
38West Ham and Beckton£23.0m£156£2,363
39Birmingham Ladywood£25.9m£155£2,980
40Liverpool West Derby£15.6m£154£927
41Ilford South£21.1m£153£1,710
42Hendon£21.1m£152£1,376
43Smethwick£18.1m£151£1,246
44Brentford and Isleworth£19.9m£151£1,296
45Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£18.0m£149£1,310
46Blackpool South£16.7m£148£840
47Hayes and Harlington£20.9m£148£1,665
48Clacton£15.1m£147£485
49Wolverhampton South East£18.8m£147£1,110
50Bootle£15.2m£146£885

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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