Benefits Britain 1949

  • Premiered: Aug 2013
  • Episodes: 3
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • Channel 4
  • Monday at 20
  • Documentary Reality

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Season 1
1x1
Episode 1
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 12, 2013
This first episode looks at how the state should support disabled, long-term sick and elderly people.
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Episode 2
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 19, 2013
The second episode follows three claimants as they give up their 2013 entitlement to council housing and agree to be reassessed and rehoused according to 1949 rules.
1x3 Show finale
Episode 3
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 26, 2013
Three unemployed claimants volunteer to live under the benefits rules of 1949. Britain needed rebuilding and there was a severe labour shortage. Anyone without work without good reason was regarded as workshy.

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