Benefits Britain Life On The Dole

The first episode meets some Brits claiming benefits in the seaside town of Great Yarmouth.

Meet some of Britain's largest families, whose accommodation problems are proving a headache

We visit South Yorkshire, which has a great number of long term unemployed

A teenage couple and a foster mum reveal the reality of living on benefits in Hull.

We hear the stories of some Roma Gypsies who survive on payments from the welfare state.

The final episode of the series meets 38-year-old Heather, who has 11 children and whose family live in a knocked-through council house on the outskirts of Gloucester. Heather makes nearly £60,000 a year in benefits and many of her children also survive on welfare payments. Elsewhere, in Liverpool, Julie has six children, none of whom have jobs. She and her husband Vinnie earn roughly the minimum wage from benefits. Finally, in London, single mums Emma and Sophie support themselves in London's Zone 1 by claiming money from the state