Social Insecurity - impact on marginalised communities

Our Social Insecurity report, along with the accompanying briefings below, expose how the UK social security system disproportionately harms disabled people, people on low incomes, racialised communities and carers, whilst ultimately failing everyone.

Developed with expert partners, Social Insecurity reveals the structural causes of these injustices and the real‑world impact on those pushed to the margins.

Our social security system fails everyone, but it doesn’t fail everyone equally. Disabled people, people on low incomes, racialised communities, carers. Those already facing the sharpest injustices are bearing the brunt. And it's not by accident. The same structures that push people into poverty are the ones denying them support.

But no one is untouched. Most of us will need support at some point. When the system fails those with the greatest need, it fails all of us. A system that protects everyone must be built by and for everyone.

As part of our new report, Social Insecurity, expert organisations advocating for the rights of marginalised communities, in partnership with us, have developed briefings that expose the brutal reality of a social security system that targets those already pushed to the margins. You can read them below.

From our friends at Disability Rights UK:

Impact on people with disabilities

From our friends at Women's Budget Group:

impact on women

From our friends at Friends, Families and Travellers:

impact on Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers

From our friends at Women's Aid:

Impact on people and children experiencing domestic abuse

We'll be updating this page with new briefings on the unequal impact on marginalised groups as they are released.