18 metrics
Benefits
Claimants and expenditure across the main working-age, disability and pensioner benefits.
- Total benefit expenditureYear ending March 2025 · up 8.0% on a year earlier£289.3bn
- Total benefit expenditure, real termsYear ending March 2025 · up 3.8% on a year earlier£304.7bn
- Benefit expenditure on pensionersYear ending March 2025 · up 6.3% on a year earlier£164.9bn
- Benefit expenditure on working-age peopleYear ending March 2025 · up 10.0% on a year earlier£119.8bn
- Universal Credit and equivalents, expenditureYear ending March 2025 · up 9.8% on a year earlier£90bn
- Universal Credit caseloadYear ending March 2025 · up 16.3% on a year earlier5,473,000households
- Disability benefits expenditureYear ending March 2025 · up 17.5% on a year earlier£41.7bn
- Disability benefits caseloadYear ending March 2025 · up 9.6% on a year earlier6,531,000people
- State Pension expenditureYear ending March 2025 · up 10.1% on a year earlier£136.6bn
- State Pension caseloadYear ending March 2025 · up 1.7% on a year earlier12,987,000people
- Pension Credit expenditureYear ending March 2025 · up 9.9% on a year earlier£6bn
- Carer's Allowance expenditureYear ending March 2025 · up 13.4% on a year earlier£4.2bn
- Carer's Allowance caseloadYear ending March 2025 · up 5.3% on a year earlier1,325,000people
- Housing support expenditureYear ending March 2025 · up 11.9% on a year earlier£36bn
- Housing support caseloadYear ending March 2025 · down 11.9% on a year earlier2,072,000households
- Incapacity benefits expenditureYear ending March 2025 · up 17.1% on a year earlier£29.7bn
- Incapacity benefits caseloadYear ending March 2025 · up 7.8% on a year earlier3,549,000people
- Net social benefits paidJuly 2026 · up 6.9% on a year earlier£29.8bn