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People receiving Pension Credit, Great Britain

People receiving Pension Credit in Great Britain, from DWP's quarterly and now annual counts.

Great Britain

1,381,723

Mar 2026

Verified against source, 30 October 2026, 11:49 UTC
Great Britain
0500k1.0m1.5m2.0mMay 18Nov 19May 21Nov 22May 24Mar 261.4m

Source: Department for Work and Pensions, Stat-Xplore. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Data table

32 periods, newest first

PeriodGreat Britain
Mar 20261,381,723
Nov 20251,388,945
Aug 20251,389,900
May 20251,391,075
Feb 20251,395,930
Nov 20241,391,728
Aug 20241,360,660
May 20241,355,264
Feb 20241,359,976
Nov 20231,369,094
Aug 20231,375,280
May 20231,377,104
Feb 20231,370,496
Nov 20221,377,428
Aug 20221,376,244
May 20221,369,990
Feb 20221,382,831
Nov 20211,403,045
Aug 20211,420,085
May 20211,433,470
Feb 20211,447,463
Nov 20201,476,266
Aug 20201,491,698
May 20201,503,340
Feb 20201,532,519
Nov 20191,555,647
Aug 20191,573,575
May 20191,590,622
Feb 20191,612,880
Nov 20181,642,874
Aug 20181,667,431
May 20181,691,724

Nations and English regions, Mar 2026

AreaNumber
Great Britain1,381,723
England1,173,654
Wales80,902
Scotland126,294
North East75,173
North West176,976
Yorkshire and The Humber119,017
East Midlands96,336
West Midlands129,516
East of England111,916
London202,767
South East150,933
South West111,023

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Source and licence

Publisher
Department for Work and Pensions, Stat-Xplore
Check it yourself
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistical-summaries
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Retrieved
30 October 2026, 11:48 UTC
Verified in
GitHub Actions run 41047883220, which alone can query Stat-Xplore; its raw response is not kept
Raw files fetched

Verification

Verified against source, 30 October 2026, 11:49 UTC Run at 30 October 2026, 11:49 UTC; 45 of 45 figures matched the live source.

ResultCheckDetail
PassProvenance recordedDepartment for Work and Pensions, Stat-Xplore; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-10-30T11:48:35Z; 1 Stat-Xplore response, read in the Actions job and never stored
PassRe-parsing the response reproduces figures45 of 45 figures reproduced by reading the response again in the Actions job
PassFigures are finite numbers45 figures, 0 invalid
PassLive source matches every figure45 of 45 figures match exactly after querying Stat-Xplore again (1 of 1 responses byte-identical)
PassStat-Xplore figures are currentlatest month March 2026 ended 213 days before retrieval (limit 560)
PassGOV.UK annual compendium agreesGreat Britain, March 2026: Stat-Xplore's 1,381,723, rounded to the nearest 1,000, equals the compendium's 1,382,000, in https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-dwp-benefits-statistics-compendium-2026/annual-dwp-benefits-statistics-compendium-2026. Earlier months are checked by the live re-fetch only
Not runNations add up to the totalEngland, Wales and Scotland sum to 1,380,850 in March 2026, −873 on the total of 1,381,723. DWP adjusts each figure by a small random amount and publishes no bound for it, so this gap is information, not a pass or a fail
Not runEnglish regions add up to EnglandThe nine English regions sum to 1,173,657 in March 2026, +3 on the total of 1,173,654. DWP adjusts each figure by a small random amount and publishes no bound for it, so this gap is information, not a pass or a fail
PassSource page answershttps://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistical-summaries – HTTP 200

Notes

  • Pension Credit tops up the income of people over State Pension age on a low income.
  • DWP's total, like its published figures, includes cases abroad and cases whose address is not known, so the nations may not add up exactly to it.
  • DWP adds a small random amount to every figure in Stat-Xplore to protect confidentiality (it calls this Introduced Random Error) and publishes no bound for it, so nations and regions may not add up exactly to the total. The verification page shows the gaps for information.
  • Each refresh compares the March figure with DWP's Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium on GOV.UK, to the nearest thousand; every other month is checked against Stat-Xplore itself, queried twice.
  • The full series is on DWP's Stat-Xplore (stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk), where anyone with a free account can build the same table.