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Nick and Margaret: We All Pay Your Benefits

Nick Hewer

Margaret Mountford

David Vallance

Emma Hindley

Ashley Potterton

Nick and Margaret: We All Pay Your Benefits: Episode 1

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Episode 1

BBC One - Nick and Margaret: We All Pay Your Benefits, Episode 1

The taxpayers spend time shopping, socialising and going through the claimants' spending.

Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford bring four benefit claimants and four taxpayers together to explore each other's lives, examine their values and speak their minds.

As the economy struggles and everyone feels the pinch, the country is more divided than ever about how much of our taxes should be spent on benefits for the unemployed.

In an ambitious experiment, Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford want to discover how much benefit is enough to live on and if work is worth it. Four claimants and four taxpayers come face-to-face to explore each other's lives, examine their values and speak their minds. Will the tax payers feel that benefits are too high, or not enough? And will the claimants decide that hard work is good for them, or will the sacrifice be too much? 

Set in Ipswich - a town with typical figures for unemployment - this first episode sees the taxpayers spend time shopping, socialising and going through the claimants' spending to see exactly how their hard-earned taxes are being spent. They must decide if they think the claimants are given enough benefits money or not enough and, with the battle lines drawn between 'scroungers' and 'strivers', this series brings the two sides together to discover if any of them can agree.

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Four benefit claimants and four taxpayers come face-to-face to explore each other's lives.

Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford bring four benefit claimants and four taxpayers face-to-face to explore each other's lives, examine their values and speak their minds.

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