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Isles of Scilly has the highest spending on other benefits per resident in 2024-25.

Bereavement Benefit, Incapacity Benefit and Severe Disablement Allowance. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on other benefits, per resident, 2024-25, by local authority

Selected Wyre: £8.38 per resident, 2024-25, 45th of 350 local authorities.

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £4.71
  2. £4.71 to £5.92
  3. £5.92 to £7.13
  4. £7.13 to £8.35
  5. £8.35 to £9.56
  6. £9.56 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on other benefits, per resident, 2024-25, 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

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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 resident are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer resident1350Isles of Scilly 1Merthyr Tydfil 2Na h-Eileanan Siar 3Rutland 4Derbyshire Dales 5Warwick 6Redditch 7Boston 8West Dunbartonshire 9Knowsley 10Wyre 45

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Wyre, State Pension: 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.

Benefit
£310.0mFebruary 2023+£9.9mPopulation+£11.5mShare claiming+£41.5mPayment size£372.8mMarch 2026
What changed: State Pension
February 2023£310.0m
Population+£9.9m
Share claiming+£11.5m
Payment size+£41.5m
March 2026£372.8m
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?

Benefit spending per resident, 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 = £765 − £935 × share aged 0 to 15 + £9,046 × share aged 66 and over − £177 × deprivation decile + £267 × ln(median pay) + £581 × Wales + £224 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 346 local authorities. R² = 0.87. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every local authority

Spending on other benefits, 2024-25. Rank is for per resident, 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 other benefits for every local authority, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Isles of Scilly£0.29m£121
2Merthyr Tydfil£0.91m£16
3Na h-Eileanan Siar£0.35m£14Estimated
4Rutland£0.54m£13
5Derbyshire Dales£0.90m£13
6Warwick£1.8m£12
7Redditch£0.96m£11
8Boston£0.78m£11
9West Dunbartonshire£0.94m£11Estimated
10Knowsley£1.7m£10
11St. Helens£1.9m£9.83
12Pendle£0.97m£9.75
13Blaby£1.0m£9.66
14South Tyneside£1.4m£9.60
15Caerphilly£1.7m£9.60
16Tandridge£0.86m£9.52
17Pembrokeshire£1.2m£9.36
18Blackpool£1.3m£9.35
19Calderdale£2.0m£9.34
20Angus£1.1m£9.27Estimated
21Argyll and Bute£0.81m£9.19Estimated
22Bassetlaw£1.1m£9.08
23East Renfrewshire£0.89m£9.00Estimated
24Hart£0.93m£8.99
25Rochford£0.80m£8.94
26North Somerset£2.0m£8.93
27Conwy£1.0m£8.91
28Blaenau Gwent£0.60m£8.85
29Herefordshire, County of£1.7m£8.82
30Inverclyde£0.69m£8.77Estimated
31West Lancashire£1.1m£8.72
32Falkirk£1.4m£8.72Estimated
33Harborough£0.91m£8.70
34Carmarthenshire£1.6m£8.52
35Swansea£2.1m£8.51
36Wirral£2.8m£8.49
37South Ayrshire£0.95m£8.48Estimated
38Rotherham£2.3m£8.48
39South Lanarkshire£2.8m£8.47Estimated
40Aberdeenshire£2.2m£8.46Estimated
41Mid Sussex£1.4m£8.44
42Rother£0.81m£8.41
43Adur£0.54m£8.40
44Hartlepool£0.82m£8.39
45Wyre£0.99m£8.38
46North Lincolnshire£1.4m£8.31
47Broxbourne£0.84m£8.29
48Denbighshire£0.80m£8.21
49Hastings£0.74m£8.16
50Lewes£0.83m£8.16

League table of every local authority for the latest period

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

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