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Saints and Scroungers

Series 2

Episode 2: Luckhee/Reach Out

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One EastLatest broadcast: on BBC One HD

Series looking at benefit fraud and genuine claimants. Investigators spot smudges on a benefit form and unravel years of lies. Plus a project in the Wirral turning lives around. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

Series 2

Episode 3: Johnson/Maggies

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Oxfordshire

Series looking at benefit fraud. The fraud investigation team at Brent Council are shocked by a scam that totalled nearly 200,000 pounds, and ran for eleven years. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

Series 2

Episode 4: Badrul Islam/Blesma

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Northern Ireland

Series looking at benefit fraud. A Senior Benefit Officer becomes the centre of a two hundred thousand pound fraud investigation when investigators discover an inside job. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

Series 2

Episode 16: Hanson/In Touch

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Series looking at benefit fraud. A fraudster seeking asylum from Sierra Leone also claims to be a hard-working single mum. But she is suspected of running a sophisticated scam. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

Series 2

Episode 18: Bob and Sam/Caudwell

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One HD

Series looking at benefit fraud. A married couple from Essex are under suspicion of claiming 130,000 pounds in the biggest benefit fraud in Epping Council's history. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

Series 2

Episode 17: Rhoden/Carers

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Series looking at benefit fraud. How one scrounger stole thousands of pounds in another man's name, ran up traffic convictions and claimed benefits worth 60,000 pounds. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

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Episode 19: Watkinson/Tag

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Series looking at benefit fraud. A man claims he's reached rock bottom, but he's systematically cheated the taxpayer out of more than 118,000 pounds. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

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Episode 20: Berkell/Age Concern

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Series looking at benefit fraud. The story of a single mum who was an astute businesswoman as well as a high-class escort, who ripped off the taxpayer to the tune of 28,000 pounds. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

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Episode 6: Operation Lille/Hunter

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Series looking at benefit fraud. Three sisters are suspected of using their children to cheat the system out of 150,000 pounds in false child tax credit. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

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Episode 7: Ubiribo/Leech

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Series looking at benefit fraud. An abandoned suitcase sets off alarm bells in Croydon, leading investigators to a woman wrongly claiming thousands of pounds of housing benefit. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

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Episode 8: Morris Wraith/Homestart

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Series looking at benefit fraud. The lavish lifestyle of a couple of benefit cheats who tried to fool the authorities into believing they were landlord and tenant. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

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Episode 9: Oginni/Canine Partners

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Series looking at benefit fraud. The woman who pleaded poverty so she could con the taxpayer out of almost 50,000 pounds, all while running her own successful business. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

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Episode 10: Sulaiman/Moat

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Series looking at benefit fraud. Dominic Littlewood finds out how one of the UK's most prolific fraudsters moved into a swish new development and got the council to pay his rent. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

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Episode 1: Larbi/Pact Harlow

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One Scotland

Series looking at benefit fraud. An imposter steals an innocent woman's identity and lands herself a job as nurse, helping her to defraud the NHS out of 270,000 pounds. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

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Episode 5: O'Driscoll/Hardwick

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Oxfordshire

Series looking at benefit fraud. The net closes in on a fantasist who swindled the state out of over 40,000 pounds by forging documents and weaving a web of lies. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

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Episode 11: ZamZam/Porchlight

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Series looking at benefit fraud. The case of the two scamming sisters who used a fake identity to steal tens of thousands of pounds from the British public. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

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Episode 12: Tomkins/Dunlop

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Series looking at benefit fraud. The story of an NHS manager who managed to steal over 200,000 pounds of NHS money to fund her own business. Show more

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Episode 13: Hynes/Food Twins

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Series looking at benefit fraud. The story of the fraudster who stole 25,000 pounds from the council, all the while owning property and running an international import company. Show more

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Episode 14: Pathmanathan/Amy and Friends

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Series looking at benefit fraud. This episode features the story of the family who cheated the benefit system to build a property empire worth 1.5 million pounds. Show more

Saints and Scroungers

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Episode 15: Beddows and Godbold

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Series looking at benefit fraud. A divorcee from Margate gets benefits to pay the rent. But a tip-off suggests there is more to her relationship with her landlord than business. Show more