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Pensioners' Incomes: financial years ending 1995 to 2023

Estimates and interpretation of trends in the level and sources of pensioners’ incomes for the financial years ending 1995 to 2023.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 21 March 2024
• Last updated: 27 March 2025 — See all updates

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Pensioners' Incomes: financial years ending 1995 to 2023

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Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), released 21 March 2024, GOV.UK website, statistical release, Pensioners’ Incomes financial years ending 1995 to 2023.

This report examines how much income pensioners get each week and where they get that income from. It looks at how their incomes have changed over time and variations in income between different types of pensioners.

We’ve also published data tables in open document spreadsheet (ODS) format, a background information and methodology report, and a release strategy.

Correction to cost of living support schemes for FYE 2023

When producing the FYE 2023 PI publication, one element of the Low income benefits and tax credits Cost of Living Payment was not included, those paid to pension credit recipients, which has impacted on the data tables.

This means that the specific income component for pensioners was not included in the FRS and HBAI analysis which feeds into the PI publication.

This error has been corrected in the Pensioners’ Incomes statistics FYE 2024 release, with an impact of £1 per week increase in gross income for pensioners. Therefore, FYE 2023 data tables should not be used. Stat-Xplore has also been corrected.

Data on Stat-Xplore

Pensioners’ Incomes (PI) data is available from financial years ending 1995 to 2023 on the Stat-Xplore online tool.

You can use Stat-Xplore to create your own PI analysis. The PI information is available at family (pensioner unit) level.

Read the user guide to PI data on Stat-Xplore.

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Published 21 March 2024

Last updated 27 March 2025 + show all updates

1. 27 March 2025

   Information added about a correction to cost of living support schemes for FYE 2023.

2. 21 March 2024

   First published.