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Birmingham has the highest total spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment in 2024-25.

Money for people who care for a disabled person for at least 35 hours a week. In Scotland, Carer Support Payment replaces Carer's Allowance. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment, total, 2024-25, by local authority

Total, low to high

  1. Under £11.6m
  2. £11.6m to £20.4m
  3. £20.4m to £29.3m
  4. £29.3m to £38.1m
  5. £38.1m to £46.9m
  6. £46.9m and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support 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.
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 350 ranked local authorities. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest total are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641350Bradford 2County Durham 19Sandwell 24Birmingham 25Liverpool 44Sheffield 53Glasgow City 77Manchester 93Kirklees 94Leeds 186

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Carer's Allowance and Carer Support 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.

£3.6bnFebruary 2023+£40.9mPopulation+£579.2mShare claiming+£217.0mPayment size£4.4bnMarch 2026
What changed: Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment
February 2023£3.6bn
Population+£40.9m
Share claiming+£579.2m
Payment size+£217.0m
March 2026£4.4bn
The share claiming is the number of people claiming per person aged 16 to 64. 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 working-age benefits per person aged 16 to 64, 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 = −£567 + £3,670 × share aged 0 to 15 − £115 × share aged 66 and over − £170 × deprivation decile + £257 × ln(median pay) + £432 × Wales + £94 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 348 local authorities. R² = 0.85. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every local authority

Spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support 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 Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment for every local authority, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Birmingham£139.7m£118£181
2Bradford£76.9m£137£221
3Glasgow City£66.4m£102£144Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
4County Durham£61.3m£114£185
5Sheffield£61.2m£105£161
6Manchester£57.5m£98£137
7Liverpool£56.8m£112£165
8Leeds£55.7m£66£100
9Sandwell£40.6m£115£181
10Kirklees£38.0m£85£137
11Sunderland£37.1m£129£209
12Cornwall£37.0m£63£110
13Walsall£36.4m£124£201
14Leicester£36.0m£93£137
15Rotherham£35.4m£128£209
16North Lanarkshire£34.9m£102£159Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
17Tower Hamlets£34.7m£103£133
18Wakefield£33.8m£92£148
19Doncaster£33.5m£105£170
20Wirral£33.4m£102£171
21Dudley£32.4m£98£161
22Enfield£31.9m£96£150
23Somerset£31.6m£54£93
24Nottingham£31.4m£95£135
25Newham£30.6m£81£110
26North Yorkshire£30.5m£48£83
27Fife£30.1m£80£130Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
28South Lanarkshire£29.5m£88£142Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
29Kingston upon Hull, City of£29.3m£107£165
30Wigan£29.3m£85£137
31Bolton£29.2m£95£154
32Derby£29.2m£107£167
33Newcastle upon Tyne£29.1m£91£134
34Barnsley£29.0m£115£187
35Wolverhampton£29.0m£103£165
36Oldham£28.6m£114£184
37Cardiff£28.3m£74£109
38Coventry£28.1m£76£115
39Northumberland£27.8m£84£146
40Brent£27.6m£78£111
41Bristol, City of£27.2m£55£78
42Rhondda Cynon Taf£26.0m£108£173
43Stoke-on-Trent£25.9m£96£153
44Wiltshire£25.4m£48£81
45Cheshire West and Chester£25.3m£68£111
46Buckinghamshire£25.1m£43£71
47Sefton£25.1m£88£148
48Medway£25.0m£86£136
49Salford£24.9m£85£124
50Ealing£24.3m£63£91

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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