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Birmingham has the highest total spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment 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.

Total, low to high

Under £19.3m
£19.3m to £30.2m
£30.2m to £41.1m
£41.1m to £52.0m
£52.0m to £63.0m
£63.0m and over

Estimated value

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, total, 2024-25, 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.

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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, 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	£6.4bn
Population	+£138.9m
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.

Expected level = £12,909 + £3,353 × share aged 0 to 15 − £1,419 × share aged 66 and over − £40 × deprivation decile − £91 × ln(median pay) + £207 × Wales + £80 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 346 local authorities. R² = 0.35. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every local authority

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, 2024-25. 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.

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment for every local authority, 2024-25
Rank					Notes
1	Birmingham	£131.4m	£111	£907
2	North Yorkshire	£106.0m	£167	£678
3	Glasgow City	£103.2m	£159	£1,225	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
4	County Durham	£97.9m	£182	£883
5	Leeds	£89.5m	£106	£720
6	Somerset	£89.1m	£152	£626
7	Cornwall	£86.6m	£149	£602
8	Liverpool	£73.6m	£145	£1,008
9	Sheffield	£73.4m	£126	£795
10	Dorset	£73.0m	£187	£643
11	North Lanarkshire	£68.9m	£201	£1,160	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
12	Wiltshire	£67.4m	£129	£592
13	Bradford	£65.6m	£117	£798
14	East Riding of Yorkshire	£62.2m	£175	£680
15	Northumberland	£62.1m	£188	£745
16	Wirral	£61.8m	£188	£883
17	Buckinghamshire	£60.0m	£104	£575
18	Cheshire East	£59.5m	£141	£660
19	South Lanarkshire	£58.6m	£176	£900	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
20	Shropshire	£57.4m	£173	£688
21	Sefton	£56.5m	£198	£879
22	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	£56.4m	£138	£666
23	Dudley	£54.5m	£164	£855
24	Sunderland	£53.0m	£185	£944
25	Cumberland	£52.7m	£188	£831
26	Cheshire West and Chester	£52.5m	£142	£691
27	Wigan	£52.2m	£152	£833
28	Kirklees	£50.4m	£113	£659
29	Swansea	£50.3m	£201	£1,044
30	Manchester	£48.9m	£83	£957
31	Wakefield	£48.7m	£133	£737
32	Sandwell	£48.5m	£137	£1,011
33	West Northamptonshire	£47.8m	£108	£659
34	Doncaster	£47.8m	£149	£809
35	Cardiff	£47.3m	£124	£900
36	North Northamptonshire	£46.9m	£125	£720
37	Fife	£46.8m	£125	£597	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
38	Rotherham	£45.5m	£165	£887
39	East Suffolk	£44.7m	£179	£648
40	City of Edinburgh	£44.6m	£84	£557	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
41	Stockport	£44.4m	£147	£766
42	Carmarthenshire	£44.3m	£232	£976
43	Bristol, City of	£43.6m	£88	£744
44	Rhondda Cynon Taf	£43.4m	£179	£948
45	Walsall	£43.1m	£146	£903
46	Tendring	£42.5m	£272	£965
47	Westmorland and Furness	£42.1m	£183	£728
48	Barnsley	£41.3m	£164	£869
49	Bolton	£40.9m	£133	£828
50	South Gloucestershire	£40.3m	£132	£744

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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