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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 7: Ubiribo/Leech

Series 2

Episode 7

Episode 7: Ubiribo/Leech

Ubiribo/Leech

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An abandoned suitcase of documents sets off alarm bells in Croydon's fraud office.

Series looking at benefit fraud. An abandoned suitcase sets off alarm bells in Croydon, leading investigators to a woman wrongly claiming thousands of pounds of housing benefit.

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. 

An abandoned suitcase full of documentation sets off alarm bells in Croydon's fraud office leading investigators to a woman claiming thousands of pounds worth of housing benefit she wasn't entitled to. 

And Ian Leech, a loving dad and a devoted football fan, takes on the system when when his daughter is diagnosed with cancer.

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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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