Birmingham and the West Midlands had £1bn in unclaimed benefits and social tariffs

NewsMoneyBenefitsThere is £435 million sitting unclaimed in Birmingham alone15:46, 26 Jul 2026A new report has found £24.1 billion in benefits and social tariffs goes unclaimed across the UK every year, with £1 billion in Birmingham and the West Midlands alone.‌Policy in Practice's Missing Out 2025 report found that, of the total sum, £2.2 billion came from Pension Credit, with only around 62 per cent of eligible pensioners claiming it.‌Applying Birmingham and the wider West Midlands' share of the British population to that figure works out at roughly £1 billion unclaimed locally each year, most of it Pension Credit.‌READ MORE: Edgbaston family's dire dossier of 'neighbours from hell' captured on doorbell footageAcross the West Midlands, including Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, So