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Glasgow City has the highest spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment per person aged 66 and over in 2023-24.

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.

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

Under £543
£543 to £623
£623 to £703
£703 to £783
£783 to £864
£864 and over

Estimated value

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, per person aged 66 and over, 2023-24, 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 per person aged 66 and over 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, 2023-24. Rank is for per person aged 66 and over, 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, 2023-24
Rank					Notes
1	Glasgow City	£92.0m	£144	£1,117	Estimated
2	Hartlepool	£20.0m	£209	£1,116
3	Tower Hamlets	£18.8m	£56	£1,077
4	North Lanarkshire	£61.4m	£179	£1,055	Estimated
5	Neath Port Talbot	£28.3m	£200	£976
6	Swansea	£46.0m	£185	£967
7	Newport	£25.0m	£152	£961
8	Caerphilly	£32.3m	£183	£944
9	Bridgend	£27.7m	£189	£940
10	West Dunbartonshire	£15.8m	£178	£936	Estimated
11	Sandwell	£44.5m	£127	£932
12	Knowsley	£23.5m	£148	£919
13	Liverpool	£65.7m	£131	£915
14	Na h-Eileanan Siar	£6.0m	£230	£899	Estimated
15	Blaenau Gwent	£11.7m	£173	£892
16	St. Helens	£32.2m	£172	£887
17	Torfaen	£16.4m	£175	£885
18	Carmarthenshire	£39.3m	£207	£883
19	Manchester	£44.4m	£76	£882
20	Conwy	£26.7m	£233	£880
21	Inverclyde	£14.7m	£187	£877	Estimated
22	Denbighshire	£20.1m	£207	£873
23	Rhondda Cynon Taf	£39.1m	£162	£865
24	Tendring	£37.5m	£243	£865
25	Hackney	£17.4m	£65	£863
26	Sunderland	£47.0m	£166	£856
27	Gateshead	£32.8m	£164	£855
28	Newham	£21.2m	£57	£850
29	Gwynedd	£22.4m	£186	£849
30	Blackpool	£23.5m	£165	£843
31	Vale of Glamorgan	£24.1m	£179	£843
32	East Ayrshire	£20.8m	£172	£842	Estimated
33	East Renfrewshire	£17.1m	£173	£840	Estimated
34	Birmingham	£119.6m	£102	£835
35	Walsall	£39.5m	£136	£831
36	Stockton-on-Tees	£30.5m	£150	£827
37	Cardiff	£42.5m	£112	£826
38	Folkestone and Hythe	£22.3m	£200	£826
39	North East Lincolnshire	£26.4m	£166	£823
40	Newcastle upon Tyne	£35.9m	£114	£823
41	South Lanarkshire	£52.2m	£158	£821	Estimated
42	South Tyneside	£24.6m	£164	£820
43	Castle Point	£18.0m	£201	£820
44	Wolverhampton	£34.3m	£125	£819
45	Barking and Dagenham	£14.8m	£65	£816
46	Dundee City	£20.7m	£138	£814	Estimated
47	Renfrewshire	£28.0m	£150	£813	Estimated
48	Bolsover	£12.9m	£156	£812
49	County Durham	£88.1m	£165	£810
50	Halton	£18.8m	£144	£807

League table of every local authority for the latest period

Values are per person aged 66 and over 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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