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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 20: Berkell/Age Concern

Series 2

Episode 20

Episode 20: Berkell/Age Concern

Berkell/Age Concern

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Rachel, a 40-year-old businesswoman, raked in £28,000 in a cross-county benefits scam.

Series looking at benefit fraud. The story of a single mum who was an astute businesswoman as well as a high-class escort, who ripped off the taxpayer to the tune of 28,000 pounds.

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.

Single mum Rachel is a 40-year-old with a head for business. Over the past six years she's made a packet from renting buying and selling a portfolio of five properties - whilst raking in tens of thousands by working as a high-class escort. But this 'Cheshire lady' was also masterminding an epic, cross-county benefits scam ripping off the British tax payer to the tune of £28,000. 

Plus we meet Queenie, whose hopes for a happy retirement were shattered when her health took a turn for the worse and she started having blackouts. Can she be helped?

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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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