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Hartlepool has the highest spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment per person aged 66 and over 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.

Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, by local authority

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £603
  2. £603 to £690
  3. £690 to £777
  4. £777 to £864
  5. £864 to £951
  6. £951 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment, per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, by local authority. 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 per person aged 66 and over are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1350Hartlepool 1Glasgow City 2North Lanarkshire 3Tower Hamlets 4Neath Port Talbot 5Caerphilly 6Swansea 7Bridgend 8West Dunbartonshire 9Newport 10

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.

£6.4bnFebruary 2023+£138.9mPopulation+£1.7bnShare claiming+£446.5mPayment size£8.7bnMarch 2026
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.

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This chart needs JavaScript. Each area's expected level is on its area page.
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 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, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Hartlepool£23.9m£244£1,301
2Glasgow City£103.2m£159£1,225Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
3North Lanarkshire£68.9m£201£1,160Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
4Tower Hamlets£20.7m£62£1,147
5Neath Port Talbot£31.7m£222£1,078
6Caerphilly£36.1m£205£1,044
7Swansea£50.3m£201£1,044
8Bridgend£31.1m£211£1,037
9West Dunbartonshire£17.8m£200£1,030Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
10Newport£26.9m£160£1,016
11Knowsley£26.6m£164£1,011
12Sandwell£48.5m£137£1,011
13Liverpool£73.6m£145£1,008
14Na h-Eileanan Siar£6.7m£259£1,002Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
15Blaenau Gwent£13.0m£192£983
16Torfaen£18.4m£196£977
17St. Helens£35.8m£190£977
18Carmarthenshire£44.3m£232£976
19Inverclyde£16.5m£209£974Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
20Tendring£42.5m£272£965
21Gateshead£37.4m£186£959
22Manchester£48.9m£83£957
23Denbighshire£22.3m£227£952
24Rhondda Cynon Taf£43.4m£179£948
25Sunderland£53.0m£185£944
26Conwy£28.9m£253£940
27South Tyneside£28.4m£189£932
28East Ayrshire£23.4m£193£926Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
29Blackpool£26.0m£182£924
30East Renfrewshire£19.1m£192£924Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
31North East Lincolnshire£29.9m£187£917
32Newham£23.7m£62£916
33Castle Point£20.4m£226£916
34Hackney£19.0m£71£916
35Vale of Glamorgan£26.7m£197£914
36Gwynedd£24.3m£202£910
37Stockton-on-Tees£34.4m£167£907
38Birmingham£131.4m£111£907
39Walsall£43.1m£146£903
40Cardiff£47.3m£124£900
41South Lanarkshire£58.6m£176£900Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
42Dundee City£23.2m£155£899Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
43Merthyr Tydfil£9.7m£165£897
44Wolverhampton£37.9m£135£892
45Renfrewshire£31.5m£167£890Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
46Folkestone and Hythe£24.4m£218£889
47Rotherham£45.5m£165£887
48Bolsover£14.4m£172£887
49Wrexham£24.1m£175£886
50County Durham£97.9m£182£883

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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