Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole (Reality, English)
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2014-06-16
Ended: 2015-03-09
Network: 5
Country: GB
Airs on: Monday
Air time: 21:00
Runtime: 60 minutes
More Brits are living off benefits today than at any other time since the establishment of the welfare state. Many claimants have spent longer on benefits than in work. Some have never known what it is to have a job and others have found that work simply does not pay. This new four-part documentary series lifts the lid on the reality of life on benefits in Britain.