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Blaenau Gwent has the highest spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment per resident in 2023-24.

Help with the extra costs of a long-term health condition or disability. In Scotland, Adult Disability Payment replaces Personal Independence Payment. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Per resident, low to high

Under £265
£265 to £356
£356 to £447
£447 to £538
£538 to £629
£629 and over

Estimated value

Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment, per resident, 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

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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.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment: yearly spending at the rate in July 2023 and in July 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: Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment
July 2023	£22.1bn
Population	+£266.5m
Share claiming	+£7.1bn
Payment size	+£1.0bn
July 2026	£30.5bn

The share claiming is the number of people claiming per resident. 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?

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.

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 Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment, 2023-24. 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 Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment for every local authority, 2023-24
Rank				Notes
1	Blaenau Gwent	£58.8m	£871
2	Merthyr Tydfil	£50.2m	£855
3	Neath Port Talbot	£116.1m	£819
4	Knowsley	£127.0m	£798
5	Caerphilly	£137.8m	£782
6	Torfaen	£67.7m	£724
7	Rhondda Cynon Taf	£174.2m	£721
8	Liverpool	£362.3m	£720
9	Hartlepool	£68.6m	£717
10	Blackpool	£101.5m	£712
11	North Lanarkshire	£242.1m	£707	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
12	Dundee City	£106.0m	£706	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
13	Inverclyde	£55.5m	£705	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
14	West Dunbartonshire	£60.9m	£686	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
15	Halton	£87.5m	£672
16	Sunderland	£189.1m	£669
17	North Ayrshire	£88.8m	£664	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
18	Glasgow City	£424.7m	£663	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
19	South Tyneside	£98.6m	£658
20	Bridgend	£96.3m	£657
21	Denbighshire	£63.5m	£653
22	County Durham	£337.5m	£633
23	Wirral	£205.5m	£632
24	Swansea	£157.0m	£631
25	Carmarthenshire	£119.8m	£630
26	Barnsley	£155.1m	£623
27	St. Helens	£116.3m	£623
28	Bolsover	£51.4m	£620
29	East Ayrshire	£74.8m	£619	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
30	Middlesbrough	£94.6m	£617
31	Redcar and Cleveland	£84.7m	£615
32	Clackmannanshire	£31.3m	£602	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
33	Chesterfield	£63.1m	£600
34	West Lothian	£109.6m	£595	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
35	Mansfield	£66.3m	£590
36	East Lindsey	£85.5m	£589
37	South Lanarkshire	£193.3m	£584	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
38	Great Yarmouth	£58.6m	£583
39	Sefton	£163.2m	£576
40	Rotherham	£156.3m	£574
41	Gateshead	£113.8m	£569
42	Na h-Eileanan Siar	£14.7m	£567	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
43	Newport	£92.9m	£563
44	Dumfries and Galloway	£81.3m	£557	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
45	Wrexham	£76.1m	£557
46	Nottingham	£181.6m	£555
47	Falkirk	£88.1m	£554	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
48	Stoke-on-Trent	£147.0m	£553
49	Renfrewshire	£103.5m	£553	Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
50	Hyndburn	£46.4m	£549

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, Social Security Scotland, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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