Britain's Benefits Scandal: Dispatches

Channel 4 HD

8:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Monday 2 December

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Fraser Nelson investigates the sharp rise in working-age people on sickness benefits, up a million in just five years. Over the course of three months Fraser has been filming with people living on benefits, as well as with top experts and politicians. He finds a broken system that can drive people towards benefits rather than work, with costs that threaten to derail the government's hopes of economic growth