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Hartlepool has the highest spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment per person aged 16 to 64 in 2023-24.

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, per person aged 16 to 64, 2023-24, by local authority

Per person aged 16 to 64, low to high

  1. Under £73
  2. £73 to £97
  3. £97 to £121
  4. £121 to £145
  5. £145 to £169
  6. £169 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Carer's Allowance and Carer Support Payment, per person aged 16 to 64, 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.
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 16 to 64 are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 16 to 641350Hartlepool 1Neath Port Talbot 2Merthyr Tydfil 3Knowsley 4Sunderland 5East Lindsey 6Bradford 7Blaenau Gwent 8Rotherham 9Redcar and Cleveland 10

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, 2023-24. Rank is for per person aged 16 to 64, 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, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Hartlepool£12.9m£135£220
2Neath Port Talbot£17.9m£127£208
3Merthyr Tydfil£7.3m£125£202
4Knowsley£20.1m£127£202
5Sunderland£34.5m£122£197
6East Lindsey£15.6m£107£196
7Bradford£67.2m£121£194
8Blaenau Gwent£8.0m£119£193
9Rotherham£32.0m£117£191
10Redcar and Cleveland£15.4m£112£191
11South Tyneside£17.1m£114£188
12Walsall£33.0m£114£186
13Blackpool£16.3m£114£186
14Great Yarmouth£10.9m£108£185
15Middlesbrough£17.8m£116£184
16Tendring£15.3m£99£182
17Thanet£14.3m£102£175
18Caerphilly£18.9m£107£175
19Barnsley£26.9m£108£175
20County Durham£57.1m£107£173
21Denbighshire£9.5m£98£171
22Pendle£9.9m£102£168
23St. Helens£19.2m£103£167
24Sandwell£36.9m£106£167
25Blackburn with Darwen£16.6m£105£167
26Oldham£25.3m£102£166
27Birmingham£125.9m£108£165
28Rhondda Cynon Taf£24.8m£103£165
29North East Lincolnshire£15.7m£99£165
30North Ayrshire£13.2m£99£164Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
31Burnley£9.8m£101£164
32Torfaen£9.2m£99£163
33Halton£13.2m£101£163
34Swale£15.6m£100£163
35Ashfield£12.8m£99£161
36Wirral£31.2m£96£161
37Stockton-on-Tees£20.1m£99£161
38Mansfield£11.0m£98£159
39East Ayrshire£11.7m£97£158Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
40Inverclyde£7.7m£98£158Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
41Bolsover£8.1m£98£157
42Doncaster£30.5m£96£156
43Liverpool£53.1m£105£155
44Bridgend£13.9m£95£155
45Gateshead£19.1m£95£154
46Wolverhampton£26.4m£96£153
47West Dunbartonshire£8.5m£96£152Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
48Kingston upon Hull, City of£26.9m£98£152
49Rochdale£21.4m£93£150
50North Lanarkshire£32.9m£96£150Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits

League table of every local authority for the latest period

Values are per person aged 16 to 64 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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