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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.

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Saints and Scroungers: Series 3

Matthew Gordon

Dominic Littlewood

Alison Kreps

Saints and Scroungers: Series 3: Episode 8: Bibi/Barker

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Bibi/Barker

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Fraud investigators suspect a supposedly single woman of being married.

Series looking at benefit fraud. Fraud investigators suspect a supposedly single woman of being married, and Dom meets a working single woman diagnosed with breast cancer.

61-year-old Amtul Bibi claimed to be a single woman struggling to pay her rent. But fraud investigators from Newham Council suspect she is not single at all, and that she and her husband have been happily ripping off the taxpayer to the tune of more than 50,000 pounds. 

And Dom meets Christine, who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. As a working single woman, she is responsible for her bills - how will she cope financially while she is ill?

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

Dominic Littlewood looks at the work of fraud investigators who bring benefit thieves to justice, and meets the genuine claimants who deserve government help

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