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Glasgow North East has the highest total number of people receiving Pension Credit in March 2026.

People receiving Pension Credit, in each month with published figures. Extra money for people over State Pension age who have a low income.

Total, low to high

Under 1,518
1,518 to 1,967
1,967 to 2,416
2,416 to 2,866
2,866 to 3,315
3,315 and over

People receiving Pension Credit, total, March 2026, 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 total are drawn in dark lines.

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.

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.

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

People receiving Pension Credit, March 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 632 rows are shown.

People receiving Pension Credit for every constituency, March 2026
Rank
1	Glasgow North East	4,774	41.5	335.8
2	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	4,675	37.5	362.0
3	Liverpool Riverside	4,590	34.9	387.5
4	Tottenham	4,508	32.6	385.3
5	Leicester East	4,417	34.5	259.6
6	Brent East	4,359	31.8	287.2
7	Blackpool South	4,078	36.2	205.3
8	Birmingham Ladywood	3,992	23.9	458.8
9	Kensington and Bayswater	3,989	30.1	235.6
10	Glasgow East	3,914	37.1	293.4
11	Edmonton and Winchmore Hill	3,830	30.6	222.6
12	Bethnal Green and Stepney	3,804	28.2	485.6
13	Bootle	3,774	36.2	219.9
14	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	3,759	32.0	382.5
15	Knowsley	3,757	37.9	239.2
16	Boston and Skegness	3,742	31.8	134.0
17	Liverpool Walton	3,717	36.3	232.9
18	Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West	3,715	26.4	207.4
19	Clacton	3,692	35.8	118.4
20	Southgate and Wood Green	3,686	28.9	207.6
21	Holborn and St Pancras	3,674	32.8	331.9
22	Wolverhampton South East	3,672	28.6	216.8
23	Hackney South and Shoreditch	3,666	31.1	426.8
24	Torbay	3,658	34.9	139.5
25	Liverpool West Derby	3,603	35.6	214.0
26	Bolton South and Walkden	3,568	27.3	226.5
27	West Ham and Beckton	3,548	24.0	364.2
28	Tipton and Wednesbury	3,517	30.0	209.5
29	East Ham	3,503	25.7	336.2
30	Clwyd North	3,476	34.3	142.6
31	Birmingham Perry Barr	3,474	27.7	270.4
32	Walsall and Bloxwich	3,470	27.7	220.7
33	Hartlepool	3,469	35.3	189.4
34	Houghton and Sunderland South	3,454	32.5	164.1
35	Feltham and Heston	3,411	24.3	224.9
35	Middlesbrough and Thornaby East	3,411	28.1	209.8
37	Ealing Southall	3,403	25.7	220.1
38	Birkenhead	3,402	31.0	179.1
39	Glasgow South West	3,395	33.4	250.6
39	Swansea West	3,395	30.1	190.4
41	Ealing North	3,387	25.2	207.1
42	Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes	3,371	31.1	170.1
43	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	3,355	35.1	182.6
44	Peckham	3,353	30.0	366.4
45	Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend	3,345	27.9	190.5
46	Islington North	3,341	30.1	333.9
47	Birmingham Erdington	3,336	26.4	204.2
47	Sunderland Central	3,336	31.8	173.8
49	East Thanet	3,334	31.4	149.9
50	Jarrow and Gateshead East	3,328	34.5	182.9

League table of every constituency for the latest period

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

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