Attendance Allowance: every value since 2013
Attendance Allowance is paid to people over State Pension age who need help with personal care or supervision because of illness or disability. It has a higher and a lower rate.
Department for Work and Pensions gives 14 values for the higher rate, from £79.15 in 2013 to 2014 to £114.60 in 2026 to 2027. Of the 13 year-to-year steps, it stayed the same in 1, went up in 12 and never went down. The largest rise from one value to the next was +10.1%, in 2023 to 2024 (from £92.40 to £101.75). Across the whole series the cash value changed by +44.8%. The value in 2025 to 2026 was +1.7% on the one before; ONS CPI inflation for calendar year 2025 was 3.4%. Ten years before the latest value, in 2016 to 2017, it was £82.30. DWP's expenditure tables put total spending on Attendance Allowance at £7.8 billion in 2024/25, with an average caseload of 1,645 thousand.
Higher rate
| Tax year | Higher rate (a week) | Change on previous value | CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 to 2027 | £114.60 | +3.8% | not yet published |
| 2025 to 2026 | £110.40 | +1.7% | 3.4% |
| 2024 to 2025 | £108.55 | +6.7% | 2.5% |
| 2023 to 2024 | £101.75 | +10.1% | 7.3% |
| 2022 to 2023 | £92.40 | +3.1% | 9.1% |
| 2021 to 2022 | £89.60 | +0.5% | 2.6% |
| 2020 to 2021 | £89.15 | +1.7% | 0.9% |
| 2019 to 2020 | £87.65 | +2.4% | 1.8% |
| 2018 to 2019 | £85.60 | +3.0% | 2.5% |
| 2017 to 2018 | £83.10 | +1.0% | 2.7% |
| 2016 to 2017 | £82.30 | – | 0.7% |
| 2015 to 2016 | £82.30 | +1.2% | 0.0% |
| 2014 to 2015 | £81.30 | +2.7% | 1.5% |
| 2013 to 2014 | £79.15 | 2.6% |
Lower rate
Department for Work and Pensions gives 14 values for the lower rate, from £53.00 in 2013 to 2014 to £76.70 in 2026 to 2027. Of the 13 year-to-year steps, it stayed the same in 1, went up in 12 and never went down.
| Tax year | Lower rate (a week) | Change on previous value | CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 to 2027 | £76.70 | +3.8% | not yet published |
| 2025 to 2026 | £73.90 | +1.7% | 3.4% |
| 2024 to 2025 | £72.65 | +6.7% | 2.5% |
| 2023 to 2024 | £68.10 | +10.1% | 7.3% |
| 2022 to 2023 | £61.85 | +3.1% | 9.1% |
| 2021 to 2022 | £60.00 | +0.5% | 2.6% |
| 2020 to 2021 | £59.70 | +1.7% | 0.9% |
| 2019 to 2020 | £58.70 | +2.4% | 1.8% |
| 2018 to 2019 | £57.30 | +3.0% | 2.5% |
| 2017 to 2018 | £55.65 | +1.0% | 2.7% |
| 2016 to 2017 | £55.10 | – | 0.7% |
| 2015 to 2016 | £55.10 | +1.2% | 0.0% |
| 2014 to 2015 | £54.45 | +2.7% | 1.5% |
| 2013 to 2014 | £53.00 | 2.6% |
CPI: ONS series D7G7, for the calendar year the period starts in. About these tables · CSV
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Sources and receipts
- DWP Benefit and pension rates, Department for Work and Pensions: 14 yearly documents from 2013 to 2026, each linked from its row in the table. Read 2026-10-15. File addresses and SHA-256: receipts for each document.
- Consumer price inflation time series (MM23), Office for National Statistics.
File: mm23.csv. Read 2026-10-15. SHA-256
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