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Leicester East has the highest total spending on Pension Credit 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, total, 2024-25, by constituency

Total, low to high

  1. Under £7.8m
  2. £7.8m to £11.1m
  3. £11.1m to £14.4m
  4. £14.4m to £17.7m
  5. £17.7m to £21.0m
  6. £21.0m and over
Spending on Pension Credit, total, 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 total are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1632Birmingham Ladywood 2Tottenham 5East Ham 7Queen's Park and Maida Vale 8Brent East 14Leicester East 15Ealing Southall 25Feltham and Heston 29Kensington and Bayswater 32Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 38

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.

£5.6bnFebruary 2023+£105.5mPopulation−£58.1mShare claiming+£793.4mPayment size£6.4bnMarch 2026
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.

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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 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.

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
6Kensington and Bayswater£26.4m£200£1,562
7East Ham£26.2m£192£2,518
8Birmingham Ladywood£25.9m£155£2,980
9Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£25.3m£203£1,473
10Feltham and Heston£25.0m£178£1,649
11Ealing North£24.8m£185£1,518
12Bethnal Green and Stepney£24.8m£184£3,160
13Brent West£24.6m£170£1,468
14Southgate and Wood Green£24.2m£189£1,362
15Hackney North and Stoke Newington£23.7m£202£2,407
16Hackney South and Shoreditch£23.2m£197£2,699
17West Ham and Beckton£23.0m£156£2,363
18Ealing Central and Acton£22.9m£165£1,520
19Liverpool Riverside£22.7m£172£1,913
20Holborn and St Pancras£22.4m£200£2,024
21Harrow West£22.2m£174£1,498
22Harrow East£22.0m£181£1,112
23Glasgow North East£21.5m£187£1,512
24Cities of London and Westminster£21.3m£162£1,312
25Hendon£21.1m£152£1,376
26Ilford South£21.1m£153£1,710
27Hayes and Harlington£20.9m£148£1,665
28Finchley and Golders Green£20.9m£160£1,076
29Chelsea and Fulham£20.5m£167£1,342
30Peckham£20.4m£183£2,231
31Birmingham Perry Barr£20.4m£163£1,589
32Aldershot£20.4m£164£1,068
33Hampstead and Highgate£20.0m£170£1,302
34Leicester South£20.0m£160£1,630
35Brentford and Isleworth£19.9m£151£1,296
36Islington North£19.8m£178£1,975
37Islington South and Finsbury£19.7m£162£1,851
38Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£19.7m£186£2,068
39Stratford and Bow£19.6m£142£2,227
40Erith and Thamesmead£19.5m£140£1,468
41Wolverhampton South East£18.8m£147£1,110
42Hammersmith and Chiswick£18.8m£158£1,358
43Glasgow East£18.7m£178£1,405
44Enfield North£18.6m£145£1,213
45Barking£18.4m£129£1,908
46Smethwick£18.1m£151£1,246
47Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£18.0m£149£1,310
48Bolton South and Walkden£17.9m£137£1,135
49Ilford North£17.8m£144£1,153
50Poplar and Limehouse£17.8m£119£2,545

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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