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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 5 - 30 Minute Versions

Matt Allwright

Adam Orr-Ewing

Matthew Gordon

Saints and Scroungers: Series 5 - 30 Minute Versions: Episode 5

Episode 5

Series 5 - 30 Minute Versions

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The case of an apparently jobless single mother who may be better off than she lets on.

Series looking at benefit fraud. Investigators work on the case of a woman who claimed benefits as a jobless single mother, but who may be much better off than they first thought.

The council's fraud investigators in Sandwell are looking into a woman who for years was claiming benefits because she was a jobless single mother. As the team dig a little deeper though, there is the potential that she is actually a lot better off than she has been letting on - £270,000 better off, in fact! 

Matt Allwright meets 22-year-old Shane, a young man whose life had gone off the rails and was facing being made homeless. He needed help and support, but would a local charity be able to get Shane back on his feet and with some hope for a future?

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Series looking at benefit thieves and those who deserve government help. Revised repeats.

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

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