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Benefits Britain: Life On The Dole

The first episode of the series meets some Brits claiming benefits in the seaside town of Great Yarmouth. With the majority of work in Yarmouth being seasonal, one in six people sign on and over 20% of children in the town are brought up in benefits families. One example is thre...

September 2020
Conclusion of a two-part documentary special about large families living on welfare. Tom and Stacey claim over £70,000 a year from the state to support themselves and their 14 children. With such a large family to manage, they run their household with military precision.
Documentary series about people who live on welfare. Life on the dole north of the border with a pair of wannabe pop stars, a globetrotter who has invented her own new age Chakra swing, and a woman who is convinced that her weight is stopping her from getting a job.
Documentary series about people living on welfare. This episode focuses on the residents of Jaywick in Essex, where over half of the community are on benefits. Tony 'Scrap' Taylor claims £51.40 a week and does odd jobs for food so his benefits money goes further. Claire and Luke have three children and live in a two-bedro...
Documentary series about people who live on welfare. A brush with fame in a reality show left Dean with no wish to get a mundane job - until he is sanctioned. With girlfriend Danielle pregnant and money already tight, Josh turns to crime to supplement their benefits. Single mum Steph wants a job, but with childcare so expe...
A look at how some of the series's most memorable characters are spending Christmas. Single mum Marie struggles to fill Santa's sack for her eight children, but the family are destined to have a happy new year. Plus what kind of Christmas dinner you can expect to get when it all comes from a skip?
Documentary focusing on immigrants who claim welfare which they send back home. This film meets a Romanian Gypsy whose benefits go to build a house back home and a working Polish couple claiming child benefit for a son who lives in Warsaw.
Documentary series exploring the reality of life on benefits in Britain. The final episode of the series looks at the stories of some Roma Gypsies who have come to the UK and are now surviving on payments from the welfare state, including Katarina, who has 11 children and 11 grandchildren, many of whom claim benefits.
In Hull, as a jobless teenage couple await their first baby, the girl's foster mother worries that her benefits will change when her children move out; the arrival of a baby will herald the third generation of another family to depend solely on benefits; and interest rates on quick, easy loans forced another welfare claima...
Episode 2 of the TV-show Benefits Britain: Life On The Dole was broadcast by 5star on Monday 31 August 2020 at 11:05.
Documentary series exploring the reality of life on benefits in Britain. The final episode of the series looks at the stories of some Roma Gypsies who have come to the UK and are now surviving on payments from the welfare state, including Katarina, who has 11 children and 11 grandchildren, many of whom claim benefits.
Episode 2 of the TV-show Benefits Britain: Life On The Dole was broadcast by 5star on Monday 3 August 2020 at 0:50.
In Hull, as a jobless teenage couple await their first baby, the girl's foster mother worries that her benefits will change when her children move out; the arrival of a baby will herald the third generation of another family to depend solely on benefits; and interest rates on quick, easy loans forced another welfare claima...
Episode 2 of the TV-show Benefits Britain: Life On The Dole was broadcast by 5star on Thursday 30 July 2020 at 19:00.
Conclusion of a two-part documentary special about large families living on welfare. Tom and Stacey claim over £70,000 a year from the state to support themselves and their 14 children. With such a large family to manage, they run their household with military precision.
Documentary series about people who live on welfare. Dave is an English Defence League supporter who lives in Cliftonville, one of the most deprived parts of Margate. He has spent all his life in the town and has very strong views on how the area and country have changed because of immigration.
Documentary series about people who live on welfare. Life on the dole north of the border with a pair of wannabe pop stars, a globetrotter who has invented her own new age Chakra swing, and a woman who is convinced that her weight is stopping her from getting a job.
Documentary series about people living on welfare. This episode focuses on the residents of Jaywick in Essex, where over half of the community are on benefits. Tony 'Scrap' Taylor claims £51.40 a week and does odd jobs for food so his benefits money goes further. Claire and Luke have three children and live in a two-bedro...
Documentary series about people who live on welfare. A brush with fame in a reality show left Dean with no wish to get a mundane job - until he is sanctioned. With girlfriend Danielle pregnant and money already tight, Josh turns to crime to supplement their benefits. Single mum Steph wants a job, but with childcare so expe...
Episode 2 of the TV-show Benefits Britain: Life On The Dole was broadcast by 5star on Wednesday 15 July 2020 at 20:00.
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