Social Insecurity Report

This report shows how cuts, sanctions and systemic failures in the UK social security system are driving people deeper into poverty, particularly disabled, ill and unemployed people. Social Insecurity finds the UK is breaching its human rights obligations and calls for urgent change.

Successive governments have failed to protect basic rights. Instead of dealing with what’s driving poverty and soaring living costs, this government is choosing to make cuts. It’s doing that by framing people who are disabled, ill, and unemployed as a ‘burden’. That narrative isn’t new, but it’s still working. Blame is being shifted onto the people most in need, while those in power avoid responsibility.

Amnesty UK has been investigating how cuts, sanctions and systemic failings of the social security system are pushing people deeper into poverty. Our new report, Social Insecurity, shows the UK is breaching its human rights obligations, and it’s time for change.