Type in a postcode, constituency or council to see what six working-age and disability benefits cost there this year, what that comes to per resident, and how much the bill has grown in two years.
Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Housing Benefit, Disability Living Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance and Carer’s Allowance. Each figure is the average award times the number of claimants (households, for Universal Credit) in the latest DWP statistics, annualised. Per-resident figures use the ONS population estimate. The wage line is median full-time pay for people who work in the area. The two-year change spans 25 months, because DWP moved its reporting dates.
The State Pension and Pension Credit. More than half of the £323 billion spent on welfare in Great Britain each year goes to pensioners, as our welfare bill investigation sets out, so these figures are the working-age and disability share of the bill. Scotland and Northern Ireland run parts of their own systems and are not covered.
Every government since 1997. Labour created Employment and Support Allowance in 2008. The Coalition legislated for Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment in 2012. Conservative and Labour governments have run both since. Your area’s bill is what those rules produce.
Sources: TaxPayers’ Alliance, My Benefits Bill (calculator and method); DWP Stat-Xplore (claimants and awards); ONS via Nomis (population, and workplace pay from ASHE table NM_99); DWP benefits statistics compendium 2026 (reporting dates); UK Parliament (MPs and majorities); Welfare Reform Act 2007 and Welfare Reform Act 2012; GBTT, Britain’s £323 Billion Welfare Bill. DWP and ONS data under the Open Government Licence v3.0; parliamentary data under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.