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Saints and Scroungers

Factual: Life Stories

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Factual: Crime & Justice

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 - 30 Minute Versions

Matt Gordon

Dominic Littlewood

Saints and Scroungers: Series 2 - 30 Minute Versions: Episode 5: O'Driscoll/Hardwick

Episode 5

Episode 5: O'Driscoll/Hardwick

Series 2 - 30 Minute Versions

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 he 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 benefit thieves and those who deserve government help. Revised repeats.

A look at the work of fraud investigators who bring benefit thieves to justice, and the genuine claimants who deserve government help. This series contains revised repeats.

Simulcast of network BBC One in high definition. From 03/11/2010

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