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

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Saints and Scroungers: Series 7

Sarah Rest

Matthew Gordon

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Saints and Scroungers: Series 7: Episode 1: The Psychic Scroungers & the Boy Who Learns to Walk

The Psychic Scroungers & the Boy Who Learns to Walk

Episode 1

Episode 1: The Psychic Scroungers & the Boy Who Learns to Walk

Series 7

BBC One - Saints and Scroungers, Series 7, The Psychic Scroungers & the Boy Who Learns to Walk

Technology based on a NASA spacesuit helps a little boy walk for the first time.

Series following fraud investigators. Technology based on a NASA spacesuit helps a little boy walk for the first time.

A husband-and-wife team working as psychics cite disabilities to claim hundreds of thousands of pounds in benefits, but they don't see the fraud team, and their antics are caught on camera. 

Investigators in Leeds put the brakes on one resident following a tip-off that a blind benefit claimant is actually working as a driving instructor. Technology based on a NASA spacesuit helps a little boy with disabilities walk for the first time.

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