Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole

Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole

Episode 1 (1x1)


: 16, 2014

Documentary examining the lives of people dependent on state welfare in the Norfolk seaside town of Great Yarmouth, where the majority of work is seasonal. Leona and Lee worry about their three-month-old daughter's future when their payments are cut because they failed to fill in the correct forms, while Jordan McDonald has his benefits halved after the job centre discovers he has not attended a government work programme.

  • : 2014
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