Abstract
Chapter 6 focuses on the consequences of highly conditional social security systems built around the twin elements of compulsion and benefit sanctions. The first part of the chapter sets out the scope of UK benefit sanctions before moving on to consider how the use of such sanctions impacts on the lives of those people subject to them. Analysis presented in the second part of the chapter documents how and why the threat and/or implementation of benefit sanctions routinely trigger profoundly negative outcomes including poverty, destitution and physical and mental ill-health. The chapter then moves on to consider the diverse ways in which people respond to benefit sanctions, including counterproductive compliance and disengagement from social security systems, and how this varies dependent upon their personal circumstances.
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