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Birmingham has the highest total number of people receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment in July 2026.

People receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment, in each month with published figures. Help with the extra costs of a long-term health condition or disability. In Scotland, Adult Disability Payment replaces Personal Independence Payment.

Total, low to high

Under 9,998
9,998 to 17,276
17,276 to 24,554
24,554 to 31,832
31,832 to 39,110
39,110 and over

People receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment, total, July 2026, by local authority. 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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Each line is one of the 350 ranked local authorities. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest total are drawn in dark lines.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment: yearly spending at the rate in July 2023 and in July 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: Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment
July 2023	£22.1bn
Population	+£266.5m
Share claiming	+£7.1bn
Payment size	+£1.0bn
July 2026	£30.5bn

The share claiming is the number of people claiming per resident. 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?

Benefit spending per resident, 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 = £765 − £935 × share aged 0 to 15 + £9,046 × share aged 66 and over − £177 × deprivation decile + £267 × ln(median pay) + £581 × Wales + £224 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 346 local authorities. R² = 0.87. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every local authority

People receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment, July 2026. Rank is for total, and 1 is the highest. Areas with fewer than 1,000 people in the age group have no rank. The first 50 of 350 rows are shown.

People receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment for every local authority, July 2026
Rank				Notes
1	Birmingham	94,855	80.2
2	Glasgow City	77,175	118.7	Includes Scottish benefits
3	Liverpool	60,315	118.7
4	County Durham	56,470	105.2
5	Leeds	55,866	66.3
6	Manchester	49,720	84.5
7	Bradford	47,589	85.0
8	Sheffield	46,363	79.9
9	North Lanarkshire	42,005	122.3	Includes Scottish benefits
10	Cornwall	40,711	69.9
11	Fife	35,665	95.2	Includes Scottish benefits
12	South Lanarkshire	34,070	102.3	Includes Scottish benefits
13	Wirral	34,060	103.8
14	Somerset	33,631	57.2
15	City of Edinburgh	33,440	62.8	Includes Scottish benefits
16	Kirklees	33,072	74.2
17	North Yorkshire	32,720	51.6
18	Sunderland	32,185	112.3
19	Bristol, City of	31,700	64.1
20	Wakefield	31,640	86.2
21	Wigan	29,626	86.1
22	Doncaster	29,310	91.5
23	Sandwell	29,078	82.3
24	Nottingham	28,905	87.4
25	Cardiff	28,870	75.6
26	Sefton	27,922	97.9
27	Rhondda Cynon Taf	27,416	113.4
28	Rotherham	27,222	98.5
29	Barnsley	26,224	104.3
30	Northumberland	26,107	79.0
31	Leicester	25,816	66.8
32	Coventry	25,321	68.7
33	Salford	25,252	86.0
34	Newcastle upon Tyne	25,242	79.2
35	Wiltshire	25,017	47.7
36	Cheshire West and Chester	24,973	67.3
37	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	24,916	61.1
38	Walsall	24,801	84.2
39	Kingston upon Hull, City of	24,736	90.0
40	Swansea	24,716	98.6
41	Bolton	24,691	79.9
42	Dudley	24,015	72.5
43	North Northamptonshire	23,712	63.2
44	Enfield	23,352	70.5
45	Stoke-on-Trent	23,312	86.3
46	Plymouth	23,290	85.7
47	Croydon	23,100	56.5
48	Cheshire East	22,865	54.4
49	West Northamptonshire	22,311	50.6
50	Dorset	22,278	57.2

League table of every local authority for the latest period

Values are total 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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