ITV Documentaries

Myleene Klass: Single Mums on Benefits (2016x29)

Air date: May 31, 2016

The musician investigates the truth about single mothers who receive benefits and asks whether it really is an easy life, or more a case of a living on the breadline. As one of Britain's two million single parents, Myleene Klass struggles with a stigma she feels is still attached to her single mother status as she raises daughters Ava and Hero. She talks to self-proclaimed `Welfare Queen' Marie Buchanan, an unemployed single mother of eight children who caused outrage when she publicly declared her £26,000 benefits weren't enough. The presenter also heads to North Wales to live with a single mum of three, who is struggling to make ends meet on benefits.