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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.

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Saints and Scroungers: Series 3

Matthew Gordon

Dominic Littlewood

Alison Kreps

Saints and Scroungers: Series 3: Episode 19: Al-Azawi/Bowley

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Series 3

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Episode 19: Al-Azawi/Bowley

Al-Azawi/Bowley

BBC One - Saints and Scroungers, Series 3, Al-Azawi/Bowley

Dom meets Dee and her daughter, who struggled to start a new life after leaving Portugal.

Series looking at benefit fraud. Iraqi refugee Mahira is suspected of creating a property empire and putting her son through private school at the expense of the taxpayer.

Mahira fled her home country of Iraq and sought asylum here in the UK. Investigators now suspect she has been using false identities to steal thousands from the benefit system - creating a property empire and putting her son through private school at the expense of the taxpayer.

And Dom meets Dee and her daughter, who faced having to make a new life for themselves in the UK after leaving Portugal following the breakdown of her marriage. With no money to tide them over, getting a job and a place to call their own was a struggle. But help was at hand in the form of a local housing association.

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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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