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Saints and Scroungers

Factual: Life Stories

Factual: Money

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 4 - 30 Minute Versions

Matt Allwright

Matthew Gordon

Adam Orr-Ewing

Sarah Rest

Saints and Scroungers: Series 4 - 30 Minute Versions: Episode 20

Episode 20

Series 4 - 30 Minute Versions

BBC One - Saints and Scroungers, Series 4 - 30 Minute Versions, Episode 20

Investigators reveal how a family who seemed to have hit hard times were hiding fraud.

Series looking at benefit fraud. Fraud investigators reveal how a family who seemed to have hit hard times were hiding a wealth of property, unpaid tax and fraudulent claims.

Life for the Coffey family was tough; their father and son paving business was bringing in little money, and Mrs Coffey and her daughters lived on government handouts. But, as Matt discovers when he meets fraud investigators, this little setup was hiding a wealth of property, unpaid tax and fraudulent benefit claims. 

And we meet Jack who, while struggling to care for his wife at their home, was given the green light for a grant to adapt their home to make life easier. But when his beloved wife died, Jack was left with little financial support and the grant was withdrawn. Can the charity which came to his rescue once before be there to help him in his time of need?

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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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