Oldham continues to pay the third highest average amount of tax credits in the U.K.

For the third consecutive financial year on the trot, 2019-2020, Oldham paid out the third highest average amount of tax credits in the U.K. with only Hackney & Tower Hamlets paying more per claimant. The total annual cost in Oldham is around £109,100,000. After a decade of the highest immigration rates from high fertility nations ever recorded which continued unabated during the pandemic and an economy built on low skilled jobs don’t expect the situation to change anytime soon.