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Blaenau Gwent has the highest spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment per resident in 2024-25.

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.

Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment, per resident, 2024-25, by local authority

Selected Dumfries and Galloway: £617 per resident, 2024-25, 48th of 350 local authorities.

Per resident, low to high

  1. Under £299
  2. £299 to £401
  3. £401 to £503
  4. £503 to £605
  5. £605 to £707
  6. £707 and over
  • Estimated value
Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment, 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

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

TotalPer resident1350Blaenau Gwent 1Merthyr Tydfil 2Knowsley 3Neath Port Talbot 4Caerphilly 5Blackpool 6Liverpool 7Hartlepool 8Rhondda Cynon Taf 9Torfaen 10Dumfries and Galloway 48

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.

£22.1bnJuly 2023+£266.5mPopulation+£7.1bnShare claiming+£1.0bnPayment size£30.5bnJuly 2026
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. Dumfries and Galloway has no figures for this benefit, so Great Britain is shown.

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 Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment, 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 Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment for every local authority, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Blaenau Gwent£65.5m£968
2Merthyr Tydfil£55.4m£944
3Knowsley£146.1m£904
4Neath Port Talbot£128.5m£901
5Caerphilly£153.1m£869
6Blackpool£117.3m£818
7Liverpool£414.0m£815
8Hartlepool£79.1m£809
9Rhondda Cynon Taf£193.7m£801
10Torfaen£75.2m£800
11Inverclyde£62.3m£791Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
12West Dunbartonshire£69.6m£784Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
13North Lanarkshire£266.6m£776Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
14Dundee City£114.4m£766Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
15Sunderland£216.9m£756
16Halton£99.3m£756
17North Ayrshire£101.0m£754Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
18South Tyneside£111.4m£739
19Glasgow City£476.4m£733Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
20Bridgend£106.5m£724
21Denbighshire£70.7m£722
22County Durham£385.3m£718
23Wirral£233.7m£712
24St. Helens£133.6m£709
25Barnsley£177.1m£705
26Carmarthenshire£133.9m£703
27East Ayrshire£84.8m£699Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
28Swansea£175.0m£698
29Redcar and Cleveland£96.7m£697
30Middlesbrough£107.0m£692
31Bolsover£57.6m£689
32Clackmannanshire£35.4m£682Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
33Chesterfield£70.8m£669
34Great Yarmouth£67.2m£668
35East Lindsey£96.0m£660
36Sefton£187.7m£658
37Rotherham£181.6m£657
38Mansfield£73.6m£650
39South Lanarkshire£214.2m£643Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
40West Lothian£119.7m£643Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
41Gateshead£128.3m£637
42Hyndburn£54.7m£637
43Thanet£89.5m£630
44Wrexham£85.9m£623
45Ashfield£80.3m£622
46Newport£104.0m£621
47Renfrewshire£116.6m£618Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
48Dumfries and Galloway£90.0m£617Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
49Burnley£61.1m£616
50Falkirk£98.3m£615Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits

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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