Dispatches S2024E12: Britain's Benefits Scandal

  • Aired: 2024-12-02
  • Time: 20:00:00
  • Runtime: 60 minutes
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Overview

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.