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Saints and Scroungers

Series 1

Day/Stoke

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

A look at benefits thieves and those deserving of government help. Featuring a sixty thousand-pound fraudster, and the woman whose 10-year-old daughter became her carer. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

Series 1

Episode 11: Hutchinson

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

A look at benefits thieves and those deserving of government help. Featuring two pensioners who stole 1.8 million pounds and the woman whose 10-year-old daughter became her carer. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

Series 1

Episode 13: Barker

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

A look at benefits thieves and those deserving of government help. Featuring the cheats who made a mint from the internet, and the former soldier whose career was ruined by injury. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

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Episode 12: Buckett

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One EastLatest broadcast: on BBC One South West

Series looking at benefits thieves and those deserving of government help. Featuring fraud fighting technology and the single mum whose health crisis was a financial nightmare. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

Series 1

Episode 14: Care and Repair

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

A look at benefits thieves and those deserving of government help. Featuring a millionaire who claimed to be a pauper, and the woman whose home was saved on the brink of collapse. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

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Episode 15: Saul

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Series looking at benefits thieves. The team go undercover in Liverpool to bust car boot sale cheats who have cost the taxpayer 90,000 pounds. A scam in Wales is halted using CCTV. Show more

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Episode 6: Davey

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Featuring two Welsh referees who stole thousands in disability benefits, and the boy abandoned as a child who has rebuilt his life thanks to a groundbreaking project. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

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Episode 7: Mow and Grow

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

How undercover surveillance put an end to one woman's 12-year-long identity fraud scam. Plus, investigators in Wales bust a salsa dancing scrounger. Show more

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Episode 8: Stoke

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

An undercover surveillance team foils a fraudster determined to make off with sixty thousand pounds. Two sisters are caught fiddling thousands of pounds while running a shop. Show more

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Episode 9: Smith

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Featuring a Mayor caught abusing the benefit system and a scam in Wales run by a pensioner hiding a huge secret. Plus a widow whose house was left in tatters by builders. Show more

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Episode 10: Pearce

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One Yorkshire

How a Premiership football club helped officers catch a fraudster who'd cheated the taxpayer out of over sixty one thousand pounds. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

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Episode 4: Maxwell

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One Yorks & Lincs

The investigators catch up with a benefit cheat who claimed disability allowances before being caught playing football, plus an 88-year-old woman gets central heating installed. Show more

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Episode 2: Searle

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Series looking at benefits thieves. Two fraudsters, so confident of their ability to get away with it, appear in newspapers and on the radio while investigators close in. Show more

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Episode 3: Searle

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One West MidlandsLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

The duo caught in the act of stealing over a million pounds worth of benefits and meet the mother who battled back from a financial crisis and the news that her son was autistic. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

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Episode 5: Swift

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Northern IrelandLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Dominic Littlewood follows fraud officers as they bust the benefits thieves. Investigators reveal how an 81-year-old granny ran a twenty-year-long housing benefit scam. Show more

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Episode 1: Morgan

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

How one grandmother took the British taxpayer for more than six hundred thousand pounds and three benefit thieves who thought they were surveillance savvy get caught on camera. Show more