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Bethnal Green and Stepney has the highest spending on Pension Credit per person aged 66 and over in 2023-24.

Extra money for people over State Pension age who have a low income. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Spending on Pension Credit, per person aged 66 and over, 2023-24, by constituency

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £506
  2. £506 to £804
  3. £804 to £1,102
  4. £1,102 to £1,401
  5. £1,401 to £1,699
  6. £1,699 and over
Spending on Pension Credit, per person aged 66 and over, 2023-24, by constituency. Equal-size areas: every constituency is one hexagon of the same size, so small city seats show as clearly as large rural ones. Hexagon layout by Open Innovations. 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 632 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest per person aged 66 and over are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1632Bethnal Green and Stepney 1Birmingham Ladywood 2Manchester Rusholme 3Hackney South and Shoreditch 4Tottenham 5Poplar and Limehouse 6Queen's Park and Maida Vale 7East Ham 8Hackney North and Stoke Newington 9West Ham and Beckton 10

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, 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.

£5.6bnFebruary 2023+£105.5mPopulation−£58.1mShare claiming+£793.4mPayment size£6.4bnMarch 2026
What changed: Pension Credit
February 2023£5.6bn
Population+£105.5m
Share claiming−£58.1m
Payment size+£793.4m
March 2026£6.4bn
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.

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This chart needs JavaScript. Each area's expected level is on its area page.
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

Spending on Pension Credit, 2023-24. Rank is for per person 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.

Spending on Pension Credit for every constituency, 2023-24
RankNotes
1Bethnal Green and Stepney£23.5m£176£3,066
2Birmingham Ladywood£24.7m£153£2,885
3Manchester Rusholme£16.4m£139£2,738
4Hackney South and Shoreditch£21.8m£187£2,613
5Tottenham£28.4m£205£2,504
6Poplar and Limehouse£16.7m£112£2,481
7Queen's Park and Maida Vale£30.3m£244£2,417
8East Ham£24.4m£180£2,398
9Hackney North and Stoke Newington£21.9m£186£2,285
10West Ham and Beckton£20.8m£145£2,241
11Peckham£19.4m£175£2,219
12Stratford and Bow£18.4m£136£2,168
13Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£18.4m£173£2,010
14Leicester East£33.2m£261£1,989
15Holborn and St Pancras£21.1m£190£1,961
16Brent East£28.4m£210£1,917
17Islington North£18.5m£167£1,892
18Liverpool Riverside£21.6m£170£1,851
19Bermondsey and Old Southwark£13.4m£122£1,849
20Clapham and Brixton Hill£13.8m£133£1,802
21Islington South and Finsbury£18.4m£153£1,778
22Barking£16.6m£120£1,759
23Lewisham North£14.6m£125£1,751
24Greenwich and Woolwich£15.4m£126£1,692
25Ealing Southall£25.2m£194£1,684
26Ilford South£19.5m£144£1,614
27Walthamstow£15.0m£121£1,614
28Leicester South£19.3m£157£1,608
29Hayes and Harlington£19.3m£141£1,553
30Feltham and Heston£22.9m£166£1,546
31Birmingham Perry Barr£19.4m£156£1,521
32Kensington and Bayswater£25.0m£185£1,496
33Croydon West£15.9m£124£1,469
34Ealing Central and Acton£21.6m£158£1,468
35Harrow West£21.3m£170£1,458
36Glasgow North East£20.2m£179£1,453
37Ealing North£22.8m£173£1,440
38Brent West£23.1m£163£1,423
39Erith and Thamesmead£18.2m£133£1,403
40Manchester Central£14.3m£106£1,390
41Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£23.2m£185£1,385
42Glasgow East£17.6m£171£1,350
43Chelsea and Fulham£19.3m£158£1,316
44Hendon£19.3m£142£1,308
45Bradford West£15.9m£127£1,307
46Dulwich and West Norwood£13.5m£128£1,303
47Hammersmith and Chiswick£17.5m£149£1,294
48Southgate and Wood Green£22.3m£175£1,293
49Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£17.3m£145£1,279
50Cities of London and Westminster£19.9m£153£1,257

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per person 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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