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Bethnal Green and Stepney has the most people receiving Pension Credit per 1,000 people aged 66 and over in March 2026.

People receiving Pension Credit, in each month with published figures. Extra money for people over State Pension age who have a low income.

Per 1,000 people aged 66 and over, low to high

Under 100.2
100.2 to 147.7
147.7 to 195.3
195.3 to 242.8
242.8 to 290.3
290.3 and over

People receiving Pension Credit, per 1,000 people aged 66 and over, March 2026, by constituency. 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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Does the order change when you count per person?

Each line is one of the 632 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest per 1,000 people aged 66 and over are drawn in dark lines, and the selected area in gold.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Cambridge, Pension Credit: 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.

What changed: Pension Credit
February 2023	£6.0m
Population	+£0.05m
Share claiming	+£0.29m
Payment size	+£0.81m
March 2026	£7.1m

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?

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.

Expected level = £15,304 − £852 × share aged 0 to 15 − £3,208 × share aged 66 and over − £44 × deprivation decile − £206 × ln(median pay) + £186 × Wales + £65 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.39. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

People receiving Pension Credit, March 2026. Rank is for per 1,000 people 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 632 rows are shown.

People receiving Pension Credit for every constituency, March 2026
Rank
1	Bethnal Green and Stepney	3,804	28.2	485.6
2	Birmingham Ladywood	3,992	23.9	458.8
3	Manchester Rusholme	2,766	22.9	449.9
4	Hackney South and Shoreditch	3,666	31.1	426.8
5	Liverpool Riverside	4,590	34.9	387.5
6	Tottenham	4,508	32.6	385.3
7	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	3,759	32.0	382.5
8	Poplar and Limehouse	2,654	17.8	379.4
9	Peckham	3,353	30.0	366.4
10	West Ham and Beckton	3,548	24.0	364.2
11	Queen's Park and Maida Vale	4,675	37.5	362.0
12	Vauxhall and Camberwell Green	3,263	30.8	342.6
13	Stratford and Bow	3,003	21.8	340.5
14	East Ham	3,503	25.7	336.2
15	Glasgow North East	4,774	41.5	335.8
16	Islington North	3,341	30.1	333.9
17	Holborn and St Pancras	3,674	32.8	331.9
18	Bermondsey and Old Southwark	2,478	22.4	329.9
19	Clapham and Brixton Hill	2,511	24.2	319.1
20	Islington South and Finsbury	3,325	27.4	312.4
21	Lewisham North	2,597	22.1	301.6
22	Barking	2,844	20.0	295.0
23	Glasgow East	3,914	37.1	293.4
24	Brent East	4,359	31.8	287.2
25	Manchester Central	2,913	21.0	281.9
26	Glasgow North	3,259	28.3	274.4
27	Greenwich and Woolwich	2,551	20.6	273.1
28	Birmingham Perry Barr	3,474	27.7	270.4
29	Walthamstow	2,565	20.6	268.7
30	Leicester East	4,417	34.5	259.6
31	Bradford West	3,174	25.0	255.4
32	Glasgow South West	3,395	33.4	250.6
33	Croydon West	2,727	20.7	244.3
34	Leicester South	2,962	23.7	241.6
35	Knowsley	3,757	37.9	239.2
36	Bradford East	2,948	23.8	236.8
37	Ilford South	2,917	21.1	236.3
38	Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley	3,234	26.8	235.6
39	Kensington and Bayswater	3,989	30.1	235.6
40	Salford	2,764	19.9	234.7
41	Erith and Thamesmead	3,120	22.4	234.5
42	Nottingham East	2,528	20.1	234.2
43	Liverpool Walton	3,717	36.3	232.9
44	Dulwich and West Norwood	2,436	23.1	229.9
45	Leeds South	2,789	21.1	227.1
46	Bolton South and Walkden	3,568	27.3	226.5
47	Feltham and Heston	3,411	24.3	224.9
48	Smethwick	3,241	27.1	223.1
49	Edmonton and Winchmore Hill	3,830	30.6	222.6
50	Walsall and Bloxwich	3,470	27.7	220.7

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per 1,000 people aged 66 and over unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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