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Bethnal Green and Stepney has the highest spending on Pension Credit per person aged 66 and over in 2024-25.

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, 2024-25, by constituency

Selected Ribble Valley: £221 per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, 617th of 632 constituencies.

Per person aged 66 and over, low to high

  1. Under £520
  2. £520 to £826
  3. £826 to £1,132
  4. £1,132 to £1,438
  5. £1,438 to £1,745
  6. £1,745 and over
Spending on Pension Credit, per person aged 66 and over, 2024-25, 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

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, and the selected area in gold.

TotalPer residentPer person aged 66 and over1632Bethnal Green and Stepney 1Birmingham Ladywood 2Manchester Rusholme 3Hackney South and Shoreditch 4Tottenham 5Poplar and Limehouse 6East Ham 7Queen's Park and Maida Vale 8Hackney North and Stoke Newington 9West Ham and Beckton 10Ribble Valley 617

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Ribble Valley, 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.

£4.2mFebruary 2023+£0.12mPopulation+£0.11mShare claiming+£0.58mPayment size£5.1mMarch 2026
What changed: Pension Credit
February 2023£4.2m
Population+£0.12m
Share claiming+£0.11m
Payment size+£0.58m
March 2026£5.1m
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.

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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, 2024-25. 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, 2024-25
RankNotes
1Bethnal Green and Stepney£24.8m£184£3,160
2Birmingham Ladywood£25.9m£155£2,980
3Manchester Rusholme£17.5m£144£2,839
4Hackney South and Shoreditch£23.2m£197£2,699
5Tottenham£30.5m£220£2,603
6Poplar and Limehouse£17.8m£119£2,545
7East Ham£26.2m£192£2,518
8Queen's Park and Maida Vale£32.3m£260£2,505
9Hackney North and Stoke Newington£23.7m£202£2,407
10West Ham and Beckton£23.0m£156£2,363
11Peckham£20.4m£183£2,231
12Stratford and Bow£19.6m£142£2,227
13Vauxhall and Camberwell Green£19.7m£186£2,068
14Brent East£31.0m£226£2,041
15Leicester East£34.5m£270£2,026
16Holborn and St Pancras£22.4m£200£2,024
17Islington North£19.8m£178£1,975
18Bermondsey and Old Southwark£14.4m£130£1,921
19Liverpool Riverside£22.7m£172£1,913
20Barking£18.4m£129£1,908
21Clapham and Brixton Hill£14.7m£142£1,872
22Islington South and Finsbury£19.7m£162£1,851
23Lewisham North£15.7m£134£1,823
24Greenwich and Woolwich£16.6m£134£1,776
25Ealing Southall£27.3m£206£1,765
26Ilford South£21.1m£153£1,710
27Hayes and Harlington£20.9m£148£1,665
28Walthamstow£15.8m£126£1,653
29Feltham and Heston£25.0m£178£1,649
30Leicester South£20.0m£160£1,630
31Birmingham Perry Barr£20.4m£163£1,589
32Kensington and Bayswater£26.4m£200£1,562
33Croydon West£17.2m£130£1,541
34Ealing Central and Acton£22.9m£165£1,520
35Ealing North£24.8m£185£1,518
36Glasgow North East£21.5m£187£1,512
37Harrow West£22.2m£174£1,498
38Edmonton and Winchmore Hill£25.3m£203£1,473
39Erith and Thamesmead£19.5m£140£1,468
40Brent West£24.6m£170£1,468
41Manchester Central£15.0m£108£1,450
42Glasgow East£18.7m£178£1,405
43Hendon£21.1m£152£1,376
44Southgate and Wood Green£24.2m£189£1,362
45Hammersmith and Chiswick£18.8m£158£1,358
46Bradford West£16.8m£132£1,355
47Dulwich and West Norwood£14.3m£135£1,345
48Chelsea and Fulham£20.5m£167£1,342
49Cities of London and Westminster£21.3m£162£1,312
50Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley£18.0m£149£1,310

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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