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Saints and Scroungers

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Series looking at benefits thieves and the people who actually deserve government help.

Series following fraud officers as they bust the benefits thieves stealing millions of pounds every year, while charities and councils track down people who actually deserve government help.

Saints and Scroungers: Series 2

Matt Gordon

Dominic Littlewood

Saints and Scroungers: Series 2: Episode 5: O'Driscoll/Hardwick

Series 2

Episode 5

Episode 5: O'Driscoll/Hardwick

O'Driscoll/Hardwick

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The net closes in on a fantasist who swindled the state out of over 40,000 pounds.

Series looking at benefit fraud. The net closes in on a fantasist who swindled the state out of over 40,000 pounds by forging documents and weaving a web of lies.

Dominic Littlewood presents a series looking at the work of fraud investigators searching out benefit thieves and meets the people they are stealing from - the genuine claimants. 

The net closes in on a fantasist who swindled the state out of over 40,000 pounds by forging documents and weaving a web of lies.

Plus when 44-year-old Michael Medd collapsed at work and was rushed to hospital he feared the worst.  Shortly afterwards he was diagnosed with kidney cancer, and was forced to give up work - making it almost impossible for him to support his family - but help was at hand.

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Series looking at benefits thieves and the people who actually deserve government help

Dominic Littlewood follows fraud officers as they bust the benefits thieves stealing millions of pounds every year, while charities and councils track down people who actually deserve government help

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